Homeland Security: Crimes

Official prohibition or restriction of any type of expression believed to threaten the political, social, or moral order. It may be imposed by governmental authority, local or national, by a religious body, or occasionally by a powerful private group.

The deliberate injury of a child. Child abuse can take several forms: neglect (including failure to provide adequate shelter, food, or medical treatment), physical abuse (including beating and poisoning), emotional abuse (including verbal abuse), and sexual abuse.

In law, agreement of two or more persons to commit a criminal or otherwise unlawful act.

Manufacturing spurious coins, paper money, or evidences of governmental obligation (e.g., bonds) in the semblance of the true.

Behavior or action that is punishable by criminal law. A crime is a public, as opposed to a moral, wrong; it is an offence committed against (and hence punishable by) the state or the community at large.

The act of obtaining information clandestinely. The term applies particularly to the act of collecting military, industrial, and political data about one nation for the benefit of another. Industrial espionage—the theft of patents and processes from business firms—is not properly espionage at all.

Any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law.

In law, willful misrepresentation intended to deprive another of some right. The offense, generally only a tort, may also constitute the crime of false pretenses.

Deliberate and systematic destruction of a national, racial, religious, or ethnic group defined by the exterminators as undesirable.

Human trafficking refers to the trading of human beings for the purpose of forced labor and/or sexual exploitation. It involves acts of transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving a person through a use of force or coercion, and it is recognized by the United Nations (UN) as a crime against humanity.

The selling, buying, and transportation of military technologies and products outside of the world's formal markets, law, and policies is one of the largest segments of the hidden illegal global economy.

In law, the killing of a child under 12 months old, and more generally, any killing of a newborn child. It is often seen as a method of population control.

Unlawfully hanging or otherwise killing a person by mob action. The term is derived from the older term lynch law, which is most likely named after either Capt. William Lynch (1742–1820), of Pittsylvania co., Va., or Col. Charles Lynch (1736–96), of neighboring Bedford (later Campbell) co.

Criminal homicide, usually distinguished from manslaughter by the element of malice aforethought.

In law, especially tort law, the breach of an obligation (duty) to act with care, or the failure to act as a reasonable and prudent person.

Robbery committed or attempted on the high seas. It is distinguished from privateering in that the pirate holds no commission from and receives the protection of no nation but usually attacks vessels of all nations.

Act of granting sexual access for payment. Though estimates vary significantly due to the illicit nature and social stigma of prostitution, research suggests that more than one million people, or 1% of the population, currently “work the streets and parlors” of the United States as prostitutes.

The action of distinguishing and categorizing individuals in a society based on perceived cultural, social, or physical characteristics and subsequently preventing certain categories or groups of people equitable access to social, economic, and political resources.

Sexual discrimination involves treating someone differently, usually less favourably, because of his or her gender.

In law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace.

Illegal transport across state or national boundaries of goods or persons liable to customs or to prohibition.

Systematic violence in the furtherance of political aims, often by small guerrilla groups.

From The Macmillian Encyclopedia
In law, a civil wrong that constitutes a breach of a duty established by law rather than by contract.

The intentional infliction of severe physical or mental pain or suffering in order to intimidate, coerce, obtain information or a confession, or punish. In international law, the term is usually further restricted to actions committed by persons acting in an official capacity.

Legal term for various acts of disloyalty. The English law, first clearly stated in the Statute of Treasons (1350), originally distinguished high treason from petit (or petty) treason.

In law, term applied to the offense of persons who are without visible means of support or domicile while able to work.

A crime committed during, and in connection with, a war, especially ill-treatment of prisoners or massacre of civilians, etc.