Editing Wrongdoing (section)

{{short description|Act that is illegal or immoral}}
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A '''wrong''' or '''wrength''' (from [[Old English]] {{lang|ang|wrang}} – 'crooked')<ref name=oed>{{cite book|title=Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM|year=2009|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|chapter=crime}}</ref> is an act that is illegal or [[immoral]].<ref name="oxdic">{{cite book|title=Oxford Dictionary of Law|year=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=0198607563|author=Elizabeth A. Martin|edition=7}}</ref> '''Legal wrongs''' are usually quite clearly defined in the [[law]] of a [[State (polity)|state]] or [[jurisdiction]]. They can be divided into [[civil wrong]]s and [[crime]]s (or ''criminal offenses'') in [[Common law (legal system)|common law]] countries,<ref name="oxdic" /> while [[Civil law (legal system)|civil law]] countries tend to have some additional categories, such as [[contraventions]].

'''Moral wrong''' is an underlying concept for legal wrong. Some [[moral]] wrongs are punishable by law, for example, [[rape]] or [[murder]].<ref name="oxdic" /> Other moral wrongs have nothing to do with law but are related to unethical behaviours.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Krystallis |first1=Ilias |last2=Locatelli |first2=Giorgio |date=2022-09-01 |title=Normalizing White-Collar Wrongdoing in Professional Service Firms |url=https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ME.1943-5479.0001079 |journal=Journal of Management in Engineering |volume=38 |issue=5 |pages=04022049 |doi=10.1061/(ASCE)ME.1943-5479.0001079 |hdl=11311/1228318 |s2cid=250326876 |issn=1943-5479|hdl-access=free }}</ref> On the other hand, some legal wrongs, such as many types of parking offences, could hardly be classified as moral wrongs.<ref name="oxdic" />