DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRIMES

 ABDUCTON- Forcibly taking someone against their will.

 ACTS OF LASCIVIOUSNESS- Filled with or showing sexual desire.

 ADULTERY- Voluntary sexual congress between married person and

someone who is not his or her spouse.

 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT/ BATTERY- A beating, or wrongful physical

violence.

 ATTEMPT- An intentional effort to commit a crime that failed but could

have succeeded.

 ARSON- Setting fire to a building, cars, or property on purpose

 ASSASSINATION- Killing a famous or prominent person usually for

political reasons.

 ASSAULT- Attacking someone physically.

 BIGAMY- Marrying someone when you are already married to another

person.

 BLACKMAIL- Threatening to someone’s secrets if a lot of money is not

paid.

 BOMBING- Detonating an explosive device with the plan of harming

people and property.

 BRIBERRY- Giving money or granting favors to influence another person’s

decisions or behavior

 BURGLARY- Breaking into a house in order to steal something.

 CHILD ABUSE- Treating a child badly in a physical, emotional, or sexual
way.

 CHILD PORNOGRAPHY- Pornography that exploits children for sexual

stimulation. It may be produced with the direct involvement or sexual
assault of a child.

 CONCUBINAGE- An interpersonal and sexual relationship in which the

couple are not or cannot be married. The inability to marry may be due to
multiple factors such as differences in social rank status, an existing
marriage, religious or professional prohibitions, or a lack of recognition by
appropriate authorities.

 CONSPIRACY- Two or more people who join together to plan and commit
an unlawful act.

 COUNTERFEITING MONEY- Imitation currency produced without the

legal sanction of the state or government usually in a deliberate attempt to
imitate that currency and so as to deceive its recipient. Producing or using
counterfeit money is a form of fraud or forgery.

 COUP D’ETA- Also known as a putsch, a golpe, or simply as a coup, means

overthrow of an existing government; typically, this refers to an illegal,
unconstitutional seizure of power by a dictator, the military or a political
faction.

 CORRUPTION- Behaving illegally and dishonestly; especially those who

are in power.

 CRIME- Doing something illegal that can be punished by law.

 CYBERCRIME- Doing something illegal over the internet or a computer

system.

 DISTURBING THE PEACE- A crime generally defined as the unsettling of

proper order in a public space through
 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE- Behaving violently inside their home.

 DRUNK DRIVING- Driving with too much alcohol in your blood.

 EMBEZZLEMENT- Stealing a large amount of money that you are

responsible for, often over a period of time.

 ESPIONAGE- Spying to obtain political or military information

 FORGERY- Illegally copying documents, money, etc. to cheat people.

 FRAUD- Getting money from people by cheating them.

 GENOCIDE- Killing on purpose a large number of people especially from a

particular group or area.

 HIJACKING- Taking control of a plane, train, etc. by force, often to meet

political demands.

 HIT AND RUN- Not stopping to help a person hurt in an accident caused by
you.

 HOMICIDE- Killing another person unintentionally.

 HOOLIGANISM- Being violent or aggressive on purpose; often used to

describe youth. Destructive behavior

 IDENTITY THEFT- Using someone’s personal identifying information

(such as social security number) in order to get money or credit

 KIDNAPPING- Taking someone away by force, often demanding money

for their safe return.

 LIBEL- The act of making a false spoken statement that causes people to
have a bad idea of someone.
 LOOTING- Taking things illegally and by force, during a riot, war, etc.

 LYNCHING- To kill someone illegally as punishment for a crime. (Mob- a

large group or crowd who are angry or violent or hard to control: NPA).

 MANSLAUGHTER- Killing someone without malice aforethought.

 MUGGING- Attacking someone with a plan to rob them.

 MURDER- Killing someone on purpose.

 PERJURY- Lying in court, while under oath.

 PICKPOCKETING- Stealing wallets, money, etc. from people’s pockets in

crowded places.

 PILFERING- Stealing small quantities of goods over time.

 POACHING- Hunting illegally.

 RAPE- Forcing someone to have sex.

 RIOT- Causing a noisy, violent public disturbance.

 ROBBERY- Stealing large amounts of money with force or violence from a

bank, store, etc.

 SHOPLIFTING- Stealing something from a store.

 SLANDER- Damaging someone’s reputation by speaking lies about them.

 SMUGGLING- Taking things secretly in or out of a place, country, jail, etc.

 SPEEDING- Driving above the speed limit.

 TERRORISM- The use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a

way of trying to achieve a political goal.
 THEFT- Stealing, in general.

 TRAFFICKING- Trading something illegal like drugs, people, etc.

 TREASON- Betraying one’s country by helping its enemies.

 TRESPASSING- Entering another person’s area; hurting people/ damaging

property through force.

 VANDALISM- Destroying private or public property purposely.

 VOYEURISM- Secretly watching naked people or sexual acts & getting

sexually excited.