Peculiar offense
The minor offense is a term used in everyday language and refers to an offense or offenses that by the general public or in certain walks of life as a minor, legitimate lawful accepted or even advocates therefore not regarded as immoral or scurrilous.
Understanding of terms
Petty offenses are often equated with petty offenses that are committed out of convenience or a lack of awareness of wrongdoing , for example offenses against traffic regulations . However, petty offenses regularly hit the general public, so that the damage can be compensated by public funds, but the injustice is still present.
The feeling for a trivial offense is subject to temporal and social fluctuations. At present, many people consider false information in tax returns , fare dodging on public transport or copyright infringement as petty offenses .
The term is often used in a negative form, for example “pollution is not a trivial offense” or “driving a car drunk is not a trivial offense”.
Web links
- Andreas Röchter: Stealing as a minor offense ? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! Aachener Zeitung , March 7, 2014
- Mara Wantuch-Thole: From trivial offense to economic crime art value 15, pp. 61–65
- Norbert F. Pötzl: The criminality of the brave: breaking the law is becoming the norm in Germany - and hardly anyone gets upset about it on Spiegel Special, 1/1999, January 1, 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Toller: Not a trivial offense: Volkssport insurance fraud is not worth it Wirtschaftswoche , May 21, 2014
- ↑ In legal terms: Tax evaders are threatened with jail even faster Wirtschaftswoche , March 23, 2012
- ↑ Katharina Schneider: Taxpayers Study: Germans Pay Good Taxes - Despite Protest Handelsblatt , July 24, 2014
- ↑ Marianne Moesle: The appearance and the consciousness Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, issue 04/2014
- ↑ Plagiarism in academic work - no trivial offense Website of the FH Bielefeld
- ↑ Marc Reichwein: Text theft from Wikipedia is not a trivial offense Die Welt , August 19, 2015
- ↑ Top 10 petty offenses: We think these little scams are okay Express, May 21, 2015
- ↑ Bungling as a trivial offense, 19.6 billion are earned with bungling - there is hardly any awareness of injustice news.at, June 28, 2012
