Crime Definition

Conduct in violation of the criminal laws of the state, federally government, or local jurisdiction (no legally acceptable justification or excuse)

• Crime rate

• Infraction

• Crime

• Treason

U.S. Citizen's action to help a foreign government overthrow, make war against, or seriously injure the United States.

• Element of a crime

• Treason

• Espionage

• Motive

an offense not yet completed

• mens rea

• element of a crime

• Reckless behavior

• inchoate offense

"the body of the crime"

• Corpus Delicti

• motive

• ex post facto

• treason

minor violation of state statue or local ordinance.

• infraction

• felony

• motive

• offense

relatively minor crime, punishable by paying a fine, probation, or serve time in the local jail

• concurrence

• infraction

• felony

• misdemeanor

an act in violation of the law

• motive

• actus rea

• strict liability

• concurrence

serious criminal offense that can be punishable by death or incarceration in a prison facility for at least one year.

• felony

• Reckless behavior

• Offense

• Corpus delicti

a step toward the intended commission of another crime

• Inchoate

  Offense

• crime

• infraction

• felony

"a guilty mind"

• offense

• actus rea

• inchoate offense

• mens rea