An inchoate offense, preliminary crime, inchoate crime or incomplete crime is a crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. The most common...

piling an inchoate crime onto an inchoate crime, the possession of burglary tools with the intent to use them in a burglary is a serious offense, a felony...

client. In the United States, solicitation is the name of a crime, an inchoate offense that consists of a person offering money or inducing another to commit...

types of incitement may be illegal. Where illegal, it is known as an inchoate offense, where harm is intended but may or may not have actually occurred....

Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension...

Accusation in a mirror (AiM) is a technique often used in the context of hate speech incitement, where one falsely attributes one's own motives or intentions...

English common law (from the French medieval word "félonie") to describe an offense that resulted in the confiscation of a convicted person's land and goods...

crime. Inchoate crime is crime that is carried out in anticipation of other illegal actions but does not cause direct harm. Examples of inchoate crimes...

recover damages sustained as a result of the commission of a RICO predicate offense. Any individual or organization found guilty during a RICO criminal proceeding...

United States federal and state law, "there are certain minor or petty offenses that may be proceeded against summarily, and without a jury". These can...

result has been achieved and therefore is immaterial with regard to inchoate offenses. Legal systems more or less try to uphold the notions of fairness...

jurisdictions, the very act of making a getaway from a crime scene is an inchoate criminal offense in itself, though it is generally viewed as natural behavior for...

A lynching postcard is a postcard bearing the photograph of a lynching—a vigilante murder usually motivated by racial hatred—intended to be distributed...

imposing a penalty on those who commit offenses, other individuals are discouraged from committing those offenses. Incapacitation – Designed simply to keep...

Stochastic terrorism is a form of political violence instigated by hostile public rhetoric directed at a group or an individual. Unlike incitement to terrorism...

the New York State Penal Law lists female genital mutilation as a sexual offense. Sexual activity between family members or close relatives is often considered...

commit an "attempted assault" since it can be considered a double inchoate offense. In Kansas the law on assault states: Assault is intentionally placing...

for a federal substantive offense". The term "principal" refers to any actor who is primarily responsible for a criminal offense. For a successful prosecution...

misdemeanor, sometimes a repeat offender will be charged with a felony offense. For example, the first time a person commits certain crimes, such as spousal...

crime, such as a government official. Compounding a felony Felony Inchoate offense Misprision Misprision of treason Pope v. State Sykes v. Director of...

Blackmail is a criminal act of coercion using a threat. As a criminal offense, blackmail is defined in various ways in common law jurisdictions. In the...

Severity of offense Felony (or Indictable offense) Misdemeanor (or Summary offense) Infraction (also called violation) Inchoate offenses Attempt Conspiracy...

inchoate offenses, described in law as the crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. The most common examples of an inchoate offense...

kidnapping. Importantly, the underlying felony cannot be a lesser included offense such as assault, otherwise all criminal homicides would be murder as all...

genocide. An extreme form of hate speech, incitement to genocide is an inchoate offense and is theoretically subject to prosecution even if genocide does not...

gone beyond mere planning or preparation, and is distinct from other inchoate offenses such as conspiracy to commit a crime or solicitation of a crime. There...

itself create the offense; it only restricts the definition (the first paragraph), permits the United States Congress to create the offense, and restricts...

Arson is prosecuted with attention to degree of severity in the alleged offense. First degree arson generally occurs when people are harmed or killed in...

five years. The California Penal Code allows for perjury to be a capital offense in cases causing wrongful execution. Perjury which caused the wrongful...

Severity of offense Felony (or Indictable offense) Misdemeanor (or Summary offense) Infraction (also called violation) Inchoate offenses Attempt Conspiracy...