Offenses

Groups the named categories and types of criminal offense recognized in law and criminology, the specific legal and behavioral classes of wrongdoing themselves, spanning violent crime, property crime, financial and white-collar crime, organized crime, cybercrime, and public-order offenses such as homicide, robbery, burglary, fraud, embezzlement, arson, human trafficking, and treason. Belongs here: entities that name a distinct category or type of criminal offense, however broad or narrow, defined by statute or established criminological classification. Does not belong here: individual prosecuted trials or cases (Landmark Cases), theories that explain why crime occurs (Criminology Theories and Schools), the scientific methods used to investigate crime (Forensic Disciplines and Methods), and the courts, police and correctional bodies that enforce and adjudicate the law (Criminal Justice Institutions).