Offenses of public disorder and fighting, including rioting, unlawful assembly, affray, disorderly conduct, breach of the peace, mob violence in Scots law, football hooliganism, abusive language and provoking speeches. An offense belongs here when the wrong is disturbing public peace through violence or threatening behavior. It excludes minor nuisance and vice offenses. Entries placed here are Disorderly Conduct, Rioting, Unlawful Assembly, Affray, Breach of the Peace, Mobbing (Scots Law), Football Hooliganism, Abusive Language and Provoking Speeches or Gestures.
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Football hooliganism, Wikipedia
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violence and other destructive behaviors perpetrated by spectators at association football events
Riot (Wikipedia)
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A riot or mob violence is a form of civil disorder commonly characterized by some people committing public violence against government or other authority figures and property.
Abusive Language (Wikipedia)
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The use of abusive language to another person is illegal in a small number of U.S. states.
Breach of the Peace (Wikipedia)
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Breach of the peace or disturbing the peace is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries and in a public order sense in the United Kingdom.
Mobbing (Scots law), Wikipedia
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Under the law of Scotland, mobbing, also known as mobbing and rioting, is the formation of a mob engaged in disorderly and criminal behaviour.
Cornell LII Wex: Disorderly Conduct
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Conduct that disturbs the peace, morals, or safety of the general public or of a class of people.
Unlawful Assembly (Wikipedia)
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An unlawful assembly is an assembly of three or more persons who, with intent to carry out any common purpose, assemble in such a manner or so conduct themselves when they are assembled as to cause persons in the neighborhood of the assembly to fear, on reasonable grounds, that they (a) will disturb the peace tumultuously; or (b) will by that assembly needlessly and without reasonable cause provoke other persons to disturb the peace tumultuously.
Affray (Wikipedia)
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In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of one or more persons in a public place to the terror of ordinary people.
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