The Criminal Lawyer‘s Guide to Criminal Law (with pictures!)

Part 1: Crime

Page 1: What is “crime”?

Introduction

NARRATOR

Welcome to The Criminal Lawyer‘s Guide to Criminal Law. In this series, we’re going to explore all kinds of concepts and ideas having to do with crime and punishment.

First, let’s start off with some basics:

Criminal law is about CRIME.

Introducing Average Joe.

AVERAGE JOE (less than thrilled)

That’s pretty goddamn basic.

NARRATOR

But what IS crime, anyway?

Average Joe looks like he knows the answer, then thinks, then shrugs.

(Note: The Criminal Law chapters were each originally posted on Tumblr as a single long page. When the comic got its own website, the chapters were broken into pages for easier reading and commenting.)