Crime Definitions

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Abettor

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Any person who incites, instigates, encourages or councils another to commit crime.

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Accessory

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•Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance

•before or at the time of the crime

•or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.

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Assult

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•A crime at common law and is every attack directed to take effect physically

•on the person of another whether or not actual injury is inflicted.

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Perverting the course of justice

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•A crime at common law which can be described as

•any overt and intentional action calculated,

•to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime

•or the bringing of a an offender to justice.

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Breach of the Peace

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•A crime at common law, and is constituted by one or more persons

•conducting himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner,

•where such conduct is severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people

•and threaten serious disturbance to the community.

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Contempt of court

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An intentional disrespect or an action against the court’s authority.

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Culpable and reckless fire raising

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Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.

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Culpable Homicide

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•Is a crime at common law and is committed by any person who unlawfully kills another person,

•where death is caused by improper conduct, but the guilt is less than murder.

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Forgery and Uttering

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Is a crime at common law and consists in the making and publishing of writing feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another person.

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Fraud

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•Falsehood

•Fraud

•Wilful imposition

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Hate Crime

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Any crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person as being motivated by malice or ill will towards a social group.

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Homicide

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•Where a human being kills another human being. The victim must be self existent, not an unborn child.

•If the child has begun to breath it is immaterial that the death took place before complete delivery.

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House

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•Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished,

•or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against intrusion by unauthorised persons.

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Lock fast place

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•Includes rooms, cupboards drawers, safes, desks, cash boxes, show cases and any other receptacle

•the contents of which are protected by lock and key.

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Malicious mischief

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•A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, an malicious destruction of,

•or damage to the property of another.

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Murder

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•A crime at common law and is committed when a person kills another without necessary cause

•and where their is either an intention to kill or a wilful act so reckless

•as to show utter disregard for the consequences.

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Offensive weapon

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•Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person

•or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves or by some other person.

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Perjury

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A crime at common law committed by any person who wilfully makes a false statement under oath or affirmation equivalent to oath.