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Study the following definitions but do not try to memorize them. You will be asked questions based
on these definitions. You may refer back to the definitions as needed while answering the questions.
Definitions of Crimes Listed Alphabetically
Arson is committed when an individual intentionally starts a fire that causes damage to a building or that
ignites an explosion.
Assault is committed when a person intentionally causes physical injury to another person or when a
person acting recklessly causes physical injury to another person.
Burglary is committed when an individual, without authorization, enters or remains in a building with
the intent of committing a crime.
Criminal Mischief is committed when a person intentionally damages the property of another person,
having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has the right to do so.
Criminal Trespass is committed when a person enters or remains in a building that he or she has no right
to be in and, while there, possesses, or has knowledge of another person accompanying him or her
possessing, a weapon.
Criminally Negligent Homicide is committed when the behavior of an individual creates a substantial
risk for others and results in the unintentional death of a person.
Felony Murder is committed when a person, acting alone or with others, commits or attempts to commit
the crimes of robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, or rape, and in the course and furtherance of such a
crime or immediate flight therefrom, that person, or another participant if there is one, causes the death
of a person other than one of the participants.
Harassment is committed when an individual, with intent to annoy or frighten another individual, strikes,
shoves, kicks, or subjects that individual to physical contact, attempts or threatens to do the same, uses
abusive or obscene language, makes an obscene gesture in a public place, follows a person in a public
place, or repeatedly engages in conduct that serves no legitimate purpose but results in alarming or
seriously annoying another person.
Jostling is committed when a person, with intent, unnecessarily places a hand near a person's pocket or
handbag or pushes or crowds another person at the same time that another participant's hand is in the
proximity of such person's pocket or handbag.
Larceny is committed when a person intentionally deprives another person of property or wrongfully
takes, obtains, or withholds property from the owner of that property without the use of force, violence,
or threat of injury. Larceny is committed, for example, when property is obtained under false pretenses,
when lost property is found and not returned, or when a bad check is intentionally issued.
Manslaughter
is committed when one person recklessly causes the death of another person, when a
person causes the death of another person while in the act of intentionally causing serious physical harm
to that person, or when a person, intending to cause the death of another person, causes that death while
acting under the influence of an extreme emotional disturbance.
Menace
is committed when a person, by physical threat, intentionally places or attempts to place another
person in a state of fear of imminent and serious physical injury.
Murder
is committed when a person intentionally causes the death of another person after a period of
lengthy planning.
Reckless Endangerment is committed when a person, failing to exercise caution, engages in conduct that
creates a substantial risk of serious injury to another person.
Reckless Endangerment of Property is committed when a person, in the act of failing to exercise proper
caution, engages in conduct that creates a risk of damage to the property of another person.
Robbery is committed when a person, against another person's will, takes property from that person.
