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...

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...

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

against the state, and inchoate crimes. Many crimes address the severity of a criminal act by specifying the degree of an offense. First degree crimes are...

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...

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

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...

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

Compounding treason is an offence under the common law of England. It is committed by anyone who agrees for consideration to abstain from prosecuting the...

by indictment but allows lesser "offenses" not to be, felony-level offenses are commonly called "indictable offenses", including in the New Jersey Penal...

Art and part is a term used in Scots law to denote the aiding or abetting in the perpetration of a crime, or being an accessory before or at the perpetration...

United States jurisdictions, obstruction of justice refers to a number of offenses that involve unduly influencing, impeding, or otherwise interfering with...

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...

some situations, a charge of conspiracy can be made even if the primary offense is never committed, so long as the plan has been made, and at least one...