The Classification of Crimes in Respect of Continuity
Any scientific discipline worthy of the name is successful in eliciting the essential nature of the area with which it is concerned and in identifying its basic categories and determining the rules applicable to the inter-relationship of these categories. On these conditions alone can scientific inquiry fulfil its major, perhaps only, task of solving the practical problems that arise in the particular area of study. In every science, therefore, a central place is assigned to an examination of its specific categories.Jurisprudence establishes general juridical categories that prevail in every branch of law. Yet each branch of law, including the criminal law, has laid down and delimited its own particular categories and continues to do so. From time to time social phenomena appear which do not lend themselves to the classificatory grouping of the current jurisprudential theory. In such cases, the scholar must extract the basic constituents of these phenomena, trace their specific consequences, determine their special nature and dovetail them into the classificatory system of the relevant branch of the law. From this process also derives the practical interest of the scholar in facilitating the smooth articulation of the actual phenomena with the previously prescribed categories and relating to them the legal effects specific to the category under which they fall to be grouped.