Offenses Against Corpses and Graves

Concealment of a corpse (Italian: L'occultamento di cadavere) is a crime provided for by the Italian legal system.

Prevention of the lawful and decent burial of a dead body is an offence under the common law of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Cemetery desecration involves attempts to: vandalize, spray paint, or steal from places that are used for human interment.

Every person is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years or is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction who (a) neglects, without lawful excuse, to perform any duty that is imposed on him by law or that he undertakes with reference to the burial of a dead human body or human remains, or (b) improperly or indecently interferes with or offers any indignity to a dead human body or human remains, whether buried or not.

Every person who in any manner disposes of the dead body of a child, with intent to conceal the fact that its mother has been delivered of it, whether the child died before, during or after birth, is guilty of (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years; or (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction.