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| A crime that involves the unlawful acquiring or appropriation of someone else's property (includes; larceny, extortion, embezzlement, robbery, etc.) |
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| the trespassory or wrongful taking or carrying away of personal property of another with intent to steal |
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| property that has physical form and can be touched, such as land, goods, jewelry, and furniture. |
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| anything of value that is subject to ownership and that is not land or fixture |
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| An item that is permanently affixed to the land |
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| property that has no intrinsic value but that represents something of value. (documents, deeds, etc) |
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| for crimes of theft, a taking without the consent of the victim |
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| the trespassory taking and carrying away (as of personal property in the crime of larceny or of the victim in kidnapping) |
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| a defense against a charge of larceny that consist of an honest belief in ownership or right to possession |
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| the misappropriation of property already in the possession of the defendant. Also the unlawful conversion of the personal property of another by a person to whom it has been entrusted by its rightful owner |
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| the unauthorized assumption of the right of ownership. conversion is central feature of the crime of embezzlement, as in the unlawful conversion of personal property of another by a person to whom it has been entrusted |
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| knowingly and unlawfully obtaining title to, and possession of the lawful property of another by means of deception and with intent to defraud |
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| the making of a false written instrument or the material alternation of an existing genuine written instrument |
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| the offering, passing, or attempted passing of a forged instrument with the knowledge that the document is false and with intent to defraud |
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| the making of false document or objects that does not have any apparent legal significances |
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| Receiving stolen property |
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| Knowingly taking possession or control over property that has been unlawfully stolen from another/ or accepting property that the receiver knew was stolen or that he or she should have known it was stolen |
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| the unlawful taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another by force or by threat of force. Also larceny from a person by violence or intimidation or by placing the person in fear |
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| the taking of personal property by threat of future harm |
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| a form of extortion in which a threat is made to disclose a crime or other social disgrace |
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| the receipt of property of other valuable consideration in exchange for agreeing to conceal or not persecute on who has committed a crime |
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| the unauthorized use of another individual's personal identity to fraudulently obtain money, goods, or service to avoid the payment of debt or to avoid criminal prosecution |
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| the breaking and entering of a building, locked automobile, boat, and so one with the intent to commit a felony or theft. Also, the entering of a striation for the purpose of committing a felony or theft. |
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| in the crime of burglary, an entry that occurs when the defendant cause another person to ender a structure to commit crime or for felonious purpose. |
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| the entering or remaining on the property or in the building of another when entry was forbidden. Also, failing to depart after receiving notice to do so. |
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| the intentional or knowing damage or destruction of the tangible property of another |
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| burglary committed within an affected geographic area during an officially declared state of emergency or during a local emergency resulting from an earthquake, fire, flood, riot, or other disaster. |
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| The knowing and malicious burning of the personal property of another of the burning of ones own property if the purpose is to collect insurance money. |
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| a form of creative endeavor that can be protected though patent copyright, trademark, or other legal means. |
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| a crime that employs computer technology as central to its commission and that could not take place without such technology |
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| a statutory provison that makes it unlawful for any person to use a computer or computer network without authority and with the intent to 1)obtain property of service by false pretense 2) embezzle or commit larceny 3) convert the property of another |
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| Theft of computer services |
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| the willful use of a computer or computer network with the intent to obtain computer services without authority |
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| Personal trespass by computer |
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| the use of a computer or computer network without authority and with the intent to case physical injury to an individual |
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| Illegally inserting or attempting to insert a program into a computer while knowing or believing the program with damage or destroy the computer |
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| Any unlawful activity that reasonably disturbs the peace and tranquility of the community |
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| words that inflict injury or tend to incite the immediate breach of peace ( these words are not covered under the 1st amendment) |
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| specific purposeful and unlawful behavior that tends to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm |
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| A fight between two or more people in a public place to the to the terror of others |
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| Unlawful public fighting undertaking for the purpose of winning an award or prize |
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| a gathering of three or more people for the purpose of doing an unlawful act or for the purpose of doing an unlawful act |
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| the preparatory stage of a riot |
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| a tumultuous disturbance of the peace by three or more people assembled of their own authority |
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| the taking, by means of riot of any person from the lawful custody of a peace officer |
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| a crime that is committed when one or more people rescue or attempted to rescue any person being held in lawful custody. |
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| Disturbance of public assembly |
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| a crime that occurs when one or more people act unlawfully at a public gathering collected for a lawful purpose in such way as to purposefully disturb the gathering |
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| under common law, the act of going about from place to place by a person without visible means of support, who was idle and who thought able to work for his or her maintenance , refused to do so and lived without labor or on the charity of others |
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| under common law, the act of going about from place to place by a person without visible means of support, who was idle and who thought able to work for his or her maintenance , refused to do so and lived without labor or on the charity of others |
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| the act of delaying, lingering or idling about without lawful reason for being present |
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| deliberate, organized resistance by force and arms to the laws or operation of the government committed by a subject of the government |
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| a doctrine advocating the use of unlawful acts as a means of accomplishing a change in industrial ownership or of controlling political change |
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| the unlawful act of spying for foreign government |
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| the unlawful act of spying for foreign government |
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| a crime that consist of a communication or agreement intended to defame the government or to incite treason |
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| the unlawful procuring of another person to commit perjury |
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| deliberate conduct calculated to obstruct or embarrass a court of law |
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| an unlawful attempt to interfere with administration of the courts, the judicial system, or law enforcement officers |
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| the crime of obstructing or opposing a peace officer who is making an arrest |
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acts that a public officeholder
1) has not right to perform
2) performs improperly
3) fails to perform in the face or an affirmative duty to act |
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| the commission of traditional crime such as murder with the intention of coercing a population or influencing a government through fear or intimidation |
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| the crime of levying war against, or supporting the enemy of one's nation |
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| Foreign Intelligence Surveillance act of 1978 |
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| this is the primary federal statue governing the collection of foreign intelligence by federal law enforcement agents |
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| Literally "you have the body" a writ challenging the legality of incarceration |
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| illegal immigration in which agent is paid to help a person cross a national border |
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| the exploitation of unwilling or unwitting people through force, coercion, threat, or deception |
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| the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for the purpose of commercial sex acts. |
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| crimes where there is not victim (crimes against social values and interest) |
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| the offering or receiving of the body for sexual intercourse for hire |
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| the act of asking enticing or requesting another to commit the crime of prostitution |
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| Keeping a place of prostitution |
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| knowingly granting or permitting the use of a place for the purpose of prostutution |
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| aiding, abetting, counseling or commanding another in the commission of prostitution |
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| soliciting a person to perform an act of prostitution |
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| the depiction of sexual behavior in such a way as to excite the viewer sexually |
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| that which appeals to the prurient interest and lacks serious literary artistic political or scientific value |
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| a morbid interest in sex; Obsession |
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| that which is obscene or lewd or tends to cause lust |
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| vountary sexual intercourse between two people, one of whom is unmarried |
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| sexual intercourse between a male and female, at least one of whom is married to someone else |
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| a general term that can include homosexual or heterosexual acts of anal intercourse, oral intercourse, and bestiality and they even apply to heterosexual intercourse in position other than missionary position |
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| sexual relation with animals |
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| the crime of marrying one person while still legally married to another person |
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| the state of having more than one wife or husband at the same time |
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| unlawful sexual intercourse with a relative through blood or marriage |
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| the wagering of money or of some other thing of value |
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| any of wide variety of substances having a physical or psychotropic effects on the human body |
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| a specifically defined bioactive or psychoactive chemical substance that come under the purview of the criminal law |
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| a chemical substance that 1) has a potential for abuse similar or greater than that of controlled substance 2) is designed to produce a desired pharmacological effect 3) is produced to evade the controlling statutory provisions |
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| a chemical that may be used in manufacture of a controlled substance |
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| enforcement strategy that allows all movie negotiable instruments, securities and of things of value furnished or intended to be finished by a person in exchange for a controlled substance to be seized |
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| 1st law authorizing forfeiture as a criminal sanction. it was designed to prevent criminal infiltration of legitiment businesses . |
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