Cyclical Society and the Structure of Crime

This paper applies Cyclical Theory to reinterpret the relationship between crime and community. Conventional jurisprudence reduces crime to the subjective actions of the individual, grounded in linear causality. In contrast, the cyclical perspective understands crime as embedded in the circulatory structure of communal envi- ronments. Criminals must face sanctions for violating communal rules, yet com- munities themselves bear responsibility for correcting the conditions that produce crime. This paper outlines a cyclical jurisprudence, and further proposes a new social contract and ethical system rooted in cyclical relations between individuals and communities.