Crime in the ancient society:
1.
Printing a book, professing the medical doctrine of circulation of
blood, sale of coin to foreigners, having gold in the house - all these
have been crime at different times.
2. Roman law of Twelve Tables,
Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and other early legal systems did not list
homicide or ordinary theft among crimes. The criminals could be
exonerated by giving compensation or by surrendering to the injured clan
as a substitute worker for the victim clan.
3. In the Inca society
of Peru, the destruction of a bridge was the most serious crime as it
was a country, which was crisscrossed by ravines and canyons and bridges
were the only ways of communication
4. A person without a horse or
blanket was in danger of death among the North American Plain Indians,
so theft of a horse or of a blanket was the most heinous crime in that
society.
5. In the ancient Germanic tribes honey was the only source
of sugar for food and drink. As beehives produced the honey, if anybody
stole a beehive he was punished seriously.
