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A defense asserted in a criminal prosecution that a person who committed a crime did not do so of his or her own free will, but only because the individual was compelled by another through the use of physical force or threat of immediate serious bodily injury or death.
Legal Conception of Crime A crime, considered as a legal cate-gory, is an act punishable by the state. For conduct to be considered criminal in this legal sense, it must be something more than the violation of group moral-ity or custom. A person's conduct may deviate from some social norm and be regarded as eccentric, bad manners,