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CRIMES / OFFENSES

* Assassination - murder of a public figure by surprise attack; an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

* Arson - malicious burning to destroy property

* Assault – a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped; close fighting during the culmination of a military attack; thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946; the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will; verb: attack someone physically or emotionally ("The mugger assaulted the woman"); force (someone) to have sex against their will; attack in speech or writing

* Bigamy – the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred; having two spouses at the same time

* Blackmail – extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information

* Bribery - the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage

* Burglary - entering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property

* Child abuse – the physical or emotional or sexual mistreatment of children

* Embezzlement – the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

* Espionage – the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

* Forgery – criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud; a copy that is represented as the original

* Fraud – something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage; intentional deception resulting in injury to another person; a person who makes deceitful pretenses

* Genocide – systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

* Hijacking – robbery of a traveler or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force

* Homicide – the killing of a human being by...