Crime & punishment

Crime & punishment

Criminal offenses and legal punishment related terms.

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bribery

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

The act or practice of giving or accepting a bribe: Bribery of a public official is a felony; A builder offered the mayor a free flat in return of favour.

burglary

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

The felony of breaking into and entering the house of another at night with intent to steal, extended by statute to cover the breaking into and entering of any of various buildings, by night or day.

1. An offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year. 2. Early English Law. ...

vandalism

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. Deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property: vandalism of public buildings. 2. The conduct or spirit characteristic of the Vandals. 3. Willful or ignorant destruction ...

manslaughter

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. Law. the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. 2. The killing of a human being by another; homicide.

assassination

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. To kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously. 2. To destroy or harm treacherously and viciously: to assassinate a person's ...

trial

Law enforcement; Crime & punishment

1. The examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts put in issue in a cause, often including issues of law as well as those of fact. 2. The determination of a person's guilt or innocence by ...