Crimes by Alex

Arson- Defenition-The criminal act of deliberately setting fire to property.

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Example-that Meg sets fire to grassland in a national park, seeking to protest government land use policies that she disagrees with. The fire spreads far more than Meg anticipated and kills a homeless man who was sleeping several hundred yards away from where Meg started the fire

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Vandalism- Definition-Action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.

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Example-Josh and his friend went to the store and bought 30 cans of spray paint to spray paint his bosses house.

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Larceny-                                                                                                                                               Definition-Theft of <a id="PXLINK_3_0_2" class="pxInta" href="#">personal property</a>.

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Example-A man walks into a store and tries on a coat. He removes the security tag and walks out of the store with no intent to pay for or return the coat.

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Enbezzelment- Defenition-theft or misappropriation of funds placed in one's trust or belonging to one's employer.

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Example-The guy skipped out with his secretary after he faked his drowning and embezzled a million dollars.

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Robbery- Definition-The action of robbing a person or place.

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Example-John approaches Mary from behind and tells her to hand over her purse. During the incident, Mary feels a hard object being pressed into her back. Scared that John has gun and will shoot her if she does not comply with his demands, Mary hands him her purse. Police quickly arrest John who claims that he was only pressing his fingers into her back, but because Mary believed he had a gun, and was truly scared of being harmed

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Extortion- Definition-The practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats.

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Example- Gavin, who is a salesperson at XYZ Marketing Corp., knows that the corporate president, William, is having an affair with Gavin’s secretary. Although he has been at the company for 12 years, Gavin has been unable to rise any higher than his current position, and he is envious of the higher salary and generous perks offered to the district managers. Gavin places a note in William’s car, telling him that he will tell William’s wife about the affair unless he promotes Gavin to District Supervisor within 2 weeks.

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Burglary- Definition-Entry into a building illegally with intent to commit a crime, especially theft.

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Example-John is teenage boy and one night when there was no one in his neighbors house he went up to the house and broke the lock with a hammer and entered and took a valuable gold necklace and a Television

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Forgery-                                                                                                                                           Definition-The action of forging or producing a copy of a <a id="PXLINK_6_0_5" class="pxInta" href="#">document</a>, signature, <a id="PXLINK_4_0_3" class="pxInta" href="#">banknote</a>, or <a id="PXLINK_1_0_0" class="pxInta" href="#">work</a> of art.

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Example-Larry Always sold pirated Movies to his neighbors and friends and one day one of his friends got mad at him and reported him to the police and he was later fined for forgery.

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