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  2. List of English criminal offences - Wikipedia

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    Encouraging or assisting crime - Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007; Soliciting to murder, contrary to section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861; Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence; Conspiracy, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977; Conspiracy to defraud; Conspiracy to corrupt ...

  3. List of types of killing - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment – the judicial killing of a human being for crimes. Casualty – death (or injury) in wartime. Collateral damage – Incidental killing of persons during a military attack that were not the object of attack. Democide or populicide – the murder of any person or people by a government.

  4. Category:Crimes - Wikipedia

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    Articles which only allege that a crime has occurred should not be included in these categories (e.g. an article about a person or company that is indicted but whose case is later dismissed). For specific alleged crimes which have not been proven in a court of law, consider using Category:Scandals or a subcategory instead.

  5. List of major crimes in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of major crimes in the United Kingdom and Crown dependencies that received significant media coverage and/or led to changes in legislation. Legally each deliberate and unlawful killing of a human being is murder ; [ 1 ] there is no crime of assassination or serial killing as such, for example.

  6. Common law offence - Wikipedia

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    In some states, the elements of many crimes are defined mostly or entirely by common law, i.e., by prior judicial decisions. For instance, Michigan's penal code does not define the crime of murder: while the penalties for murder are laid out in statute, the actual elements of murder, and their meaning, is entirely set out in case law. [9] [10] [11]

  7. Felony - Wikipedia

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    A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious. [1] The term "felony" originated from English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods, to which additional punishments, including capital punishment, could be added; [2 ...

  8. Crime - Wikipedia

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    The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, [2] though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes. [3] The most popular view is that crime is a category created by law; in other words, something is a crime if declared as such by the relevant and applicable law. [2]

  9. Category:English criminals - Wikipedia

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    This categorisation of criminal should only be used for individuals that are notable criminals, notable as criminals and not just for people primarily notable for something else but that have been convicted of a crime. For such other people use a categorisation more specific to the actual conviction. England portal