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Shift in how crimes are understood.

1810

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Rather than being identified as "sins" against God, crimes are now understood as taking place against people and property. The prosecution of crime is intended to "'insure the peace and safety of society and to relieve the public from the depredations of notorious offenders" (Blacher, 1995).

At this point, most prosecutions are for crimes against property rather than people, and prosecution is largely a form of class-culling, with the wealthy prosecuting those living in poverty. As legal language moves from being specifically Christian, prosecution analysis begins to focus directly on the "criminal mind," with an interest in defining which kinds of people are "likely" to "be criminals" and which are not.