| A | B |
|---|
| Crime | Punishable offense against society |
| Criminal Act | Breach of duty |
| Criminal Intent | Intent to commit criminal act or do evil |
| Embezzlement | taking another person's property by a person to whom it has been entrusted |
| Felony | crime punishable by confinement for more than a year in a state prison or by a fine of $1,000 or both |
| perjury | lying under oath |
| misdemeanor | less serious crime punishable by confinement in a county or city jail |
| Infraction | Lesser misdemeanors that can only be punishable with a fine |
| white-collar crime | Offenses committed in the business world |
| Antitrust laws | Competing companies may not cooperate in fixing prices |
| Larceny | Also known as theft - the wrongful taking of money or personal property belonging to someone else |
| Robbery | taking property from another person against the victim's will, by force, or by causing fear |
| Burglary | Entering a building without permission when intending to commit a crime |
| False Pretences | Obtaining money or property by lying about a past or existing fact |
| Fence | Knowingly receiving or buying stolen property |
| Forgery | Falsely making or materially altering something written to defraud another |
| Bribery | unlawfully offering or giving anything of value to influence of an official |
| Extortion | Blackmail - obtaining money or other property by wrongful use of force, fear, or the power of office |
| Conspiracy | An agreement between two or more people to commit a crime |
| Arson | the willful and illegal burning of a building |
