Nonviolent Theft Crimes
This is any movable item.
What is personal property?
This is considered a forcible theft offense.
What is robbery?
Robbery was the first common law in this type of crime.
What is theft?
At early common law, this was the invasion of a man’s castle at nighttime, with a sinister purpose.
What is burglary?
Arson is one of the most destructive crimes in this country.
What is the United States?
This control plus asportation can be accomplished by the defendant’s physical act or by deceiving the victim into transferring the property with a false representation of fact.
What is Larceny by trick?
All states and the federal government criminalize extortion which is also called this.
What is blackmail?
Robbery is generally graded as a serious felony that can serve as the predicate felony for this type of felony.
What is a first-degree felony?
Many jurisdictions require this to be described in the burglary statute.
What is breaking and entering?
At early common law, arson was primarily a crime against this, rather than a crime against property.
What is habitation?
Unlike stocks and bonds, this can also be intangible, which means it has value but cannot be touched or held.
What is personal property?
The criminal act element required for extortion.
What is the threat to cause future harm?
The Model Penal Code grades robbery as a felony of this.
What is the second-degree?
Second- and third-degree burglary generally are still felonies, although less serious than this.
What is first-degree burglary?
Harm must be this at the time the defendant commits the criminal act with the accompanying criminal intent.
What is reasonably foreseeable?
The federal government criminalizes theft by use of the federal postal service as this.
What is federal mail fraud?
Extortion is a form of theft, so it has the same attendant circumstance required in this statute of the property stolen belonging to another.
What is consolidated theft?
For this purpose, only the elements of robbery that are distinguishable from larceny and extortion are analyzed in depth.
What is brevity?
Receiving stolen property is graded as this if the stolen property is of low value and this if the stolen property is of high value.
What is a misdemeanor and felony misdemeanor?
In most jurisdictions, arson must burn a specific type of property that can be interpreted as this.
What is the attendant circumstance?
These are the three categories of nonviolent crimes
What are larceny, embezzlement, and free pretenses?
Extortion is generally graded and the Model Penal Code grades extortion under this.
What is a consolidated theft offense?
The elements of robbery are very similar to these elements
What are larceny and extortion?
The Model Penal Code describes the criminal intent element as this.
What is the purpose of committing a crime there in?
The harm element required for arson is this to the property specified in the arson statute.
What is burning, charring, and damage?