crime offense criminal offense criminal offence offence law-breaking | (criminal law) an act punishable by law, usually considered an evil act, a long record of crimes |
crime | an evil act not necessarily punishable by law, crimes of the heart |
Had crime | (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran, Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery |
sexual assault sexual abuse sex crime sex offense | a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat, most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault |
Tazir crime | (Islam) minor crimes committed by Muslims, crimes that are not mentioned in the Koran so judges are free to punish the offender in any appropriate way, in some Islamic nations Tazir crimes are set by legislation |
vice crime | a vice that is illegal |
victimless crime | an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims, he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime |
war crime | a crime committed in wartime, violation of rules of war |
viewer | an optical device for viewing photographic transparencies |
crime wave | a sudden rise in the crime rate |
organized crime gangland gangdom | underworld organizations |
syndicate crime syndicate mob family | a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities |
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention DCCP | an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
confederate collaborator henchman partner in crime | someone who assists in a plot |
spectator witness viewer watcher looker | a close observer, someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind), the spectators applauded the performance, television viewers, sky watchers discovered a new star |
crime rate | the ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area, expressed per population per year |
on-line(a) online | being in progress now, on-line editorial projects |
on-line online | connected to a computer network or accessible by computer, an on-line database |
on-line online | on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system, on-line industries |