criminal offense

1. (criminal law) an act punishable by law;
   Usually considered an evil act (synset 100767761)
   "a long record of crimes"
   referred to in: criminal law - the body of law dealing with crimes and their punishment
   associated with:

   • abduct, kidnap, nobble, snatch - take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom
   • impress, shanghai - take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship
   • commandeer, highjack, hijack, pirate - take arbitrarily or by force
   • skyjack - subject an aircraft to air piracy
   • carjack - take someone's car from him by force, usually with the intention of stealing it
   • extort - obtain through intimidation
   • blackmail - obtain through threats
   • scalp - sell illegally, as on the black market
   • bootleg - sell illicit products such as drugs or alcohol
   • black market, run - deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
   • fob off, foist off, palm off - sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
   • push - sell or promote the sale of (illegal goods such as drugs)
   • black marketeer - deal on the black market
   • pyramid - use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal
   • ransom, redeem - exchange or buy back for money; under threat
   • traffic - deal illegally
   • lift, rustle - take illegally
   • shoplift - steal in a store
   • hold up, stick up - rob at gunpoint or by means of some other threat
   • mug - rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence
   • pirate - copy illegally; of published material
   • lift, plagiarise, plagiarize - take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
   • crib - take unauthorized (intellectual material)
   • bribe, buy, corrupt, grease one's palms - make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
   • rake off - take money from an illegal transaction
   • buy off, pay off - pay someone with influence in order to receive a favor
   • loot, plunder - take illegally; of intellectual property
   • smuggle - import or export without paying customs duties
   • kick back - pay a kickback; make an illegal payment
   is a type of: offence, offense - a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right
   subtypes:

   • barratry - the offense of vexatiously persisting in inciting lawsuits and quarrels
   • capital offense - a crime so serious that capital punishment is considered appropriate
   • cybercrime - crime committed using a computer and the internet to steal a person's identity or sell contraband or stalk victims or disrupt operations with malevolent programs
   • felony - a serious crime (such as murder or arson)
   • forgery - criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud
   • fraud - intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
   • had crime - (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran
   • highjack, hijack - seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination
   • mayhem - the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person
   • infraction, infringement, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation - a crime less serious than a felony
   • commission, committal, perpetration - the act of committing a crime
   • attack, attempt - the act of attacking
   • 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
   • regulatory offence, regulatory offense, statutory offence, statutory offense - crimes created by statutes and not by common law
   • thuggery - violent or brutal acts as of thugs
   • high treason, lese majesty, treason - a crime that undermines the offender's government
   • vice crime - a vice that is illegal
   • victimless crime - an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims
   • war crime - a crime committed in wartime; violation of rules of war
   same as: crime, criminal offence, law-breaking

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