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Gilbert Wheatley, arrested in England on 7 July 1904, for loitering with intent to commit a felony. While not being a crime by itself, loitering has historically been treated as an inherent preceding offense to other forms of public crime and disorder, such as prostitution, begging, public drunkenness, dealing in stolen goods, drug dealing, scams, organized crime, robbery, harassment/mobbing, etc.
The Act abolished the offence of "loitering with intent" under the Vagrancy Act 1824. [4] Section 9 creates a summary offence called "vehicle interference." This is committed by interfering with a motor vehicle or trailer, or anything in the vehicle or trailer, with intent to steal it or anything in it. It carries a maximum sentence of three ...
Loitering with Intent may also refer to: Loitering with Intent, 2014 American comedy film; Loitering with Intent: The Child (1992) and Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice (1997), the two volumes of Peter O'Toole's autobiography; The criminal offence of loitering, as defined in English law by the Penal Servitude Act 1891
Loitering for the purpose of prostitution is no longer a crime in California.
The common law gives intention "its normal meaning: purpose or aim", with judges advised not to, in the majority of cases, attempt to complicate the definition. [8] Conditional intent – where somebody has an intent to commit a crime only in certain circumstances – has also been deemed acceptable for an indictment for attempting a crime. [9]
Legal status may be specific to the time or place where it occurs. The crime of "solicitation to commit a crime" occurs when a person encourages, "solicits, requests, commands, importunes or otherwise attempts to cause" another person to attempt or commit a crime, with the purpose of thereby facilitating the attempt or commission of that crime.
Mopery (/ ˈ m oʊ p ə r i /) [1] is a vague, informal name for minor offenses. The word is based on the verb to mope, which originally meant "to wander aimlessly"; it only later acquired the sense "to be bored and depressed".
Intent is defined in English law by the ruling in R v Mohan [1976] QB 1 as "the decision to bring about a prohibited consequence" (malum prohibitum). [1] [2] [3]A range of words represents shades of intent in criminal laws around the world.