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Alcohol intoxication
Alcohol intoxication, also known as drunkenness or alcohol poisoning, is negative behavior and physical effects due to the recent drinking of ethanol (alcohol).
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Arson
Arson is a crime of intentionally, deliberately and maliciously setting fire to buildings, wildland areas, abandoned homes, vehicles or other property with the intent to cause damage or enjoy the act.
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Assault
An assault is the act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action.
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Attempt
An attempt to commit a crime occurs if a criminal has an intent to commit a crime and takes a substantial step toward completing the crime, but for reasons not intended by the criminal, the final resulting crime does not occur.
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Battery (crime)
Battery is a criminal offense involving the unlawful physical acting upon a threat, distinct from assault which is the act of creating apprehension of such contact.
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Breach of the peace
Breach of the peace, or disturbing the peace, is a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries, and in a wider public order sense in the several jurisdictions of the United Kingdom.
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Burglary
Burglary (also called breaking and entering and sometimes housebreaking) is an unlawful entry into a building or other location for the purposes of committing an offence.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California Codes
The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which together form the general statutory law of California.
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California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California.
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California Vehicle Code
The California Vehicle Code contains almost all statutes relating to the operation, ownership and registration of vehicles (including bicycles and even animals when riding on a public roadway) in the state of California in the United States.
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Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which the item taken over is a motor vehicle.
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Child abduction
Child abduction or child theft is the unauthorized removal of a minor (a child under the age of legal adulthood) from the custody of the child's natural parents or legally appointed guardians. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, in the United States an estimated 460,000 children were reported missing in 2015, most of which are not abducted. 97% return or are found alive. The term child abduction conflates two legal and social categories which differ by their perpetrating contexts: abduction by members of the child's family or abduction by strangers.
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Child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation.
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Corrections
In criminal justice, particularly in North America, correction, corrections, and correctional, are umbrella terms describing a variety of functions typically carried out by government agencies, and involving the punishment, treatment, and supervision of persons who have been convicted of crimes.
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Criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime.
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Criminal procedure
Criminal procedure is the adjudication process of the criminal law.
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Cruelty to animals
Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or animal cruelty, is the infliction by omission (animal neglect) or by commission by humans of suffering or harm upon any non-human animal.
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David Dudley Field II
David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure.
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Driving
Driving is the controlled operation and movement of a motor vehicle, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, and buses.
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Embezzlement
Embezzlement is the act of withholding assets for the purpose of conversion (theft) of such assets, by one or more persons to whom the assets were entrusted, either to be held or to be used for specific purposes.
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Ewing v. California
Ewing v. California,, is one of two cases upholding a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law against a challenge that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
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Extortion
Extortion (also called shakedown, outwrestling and exaction) is a criminal offense of obtaining money, property, or services from an individual or institution, through coercion.
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False imprisonment
False imprisonment occurs when a person is restricted in their personal movement within any area without justification or consent.
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Felony petty theft
Felony petty theft is the colloquial term for a statute in the California Penal Code (Section 666) that makes it possible for a person who commits the crime of petty theft to be charged with a felony rather than a misdemeanor if the accused had previously been convicted of a theft-related crime at any time in the past.
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Firearm
A firearm is a portable gun (a barreled ranged weapon) that inflicts damage on targets by launching one or more projectiles driven by rapidly expanding high-pressure gas produced by exothermic combustion (deflagration) of propellant within an ammunition cartridge.
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Forgery
Forgery is the process of making, adapting, or imitating objects, statistics, or documents with the intent to deceive for the sake of altering the public perception, or to earn profit by selling the forged item.
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Incest
Incest is sexual activity between family members or close relatives.
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Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure is the deliberate exposure in public or in view of the general public by a person of a portion or portions of his or her body, in circumstances where the exposure is contrary to local moral or other standards of appropriate behavior.
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Kidnapping
In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful carrying away (asportation) and confinement of a person against his or her will.
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Larceny
Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking of the personal property of another person or business.
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Law of California
The law of California consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law.
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Law of the United States
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the United States Constitution, the foundation of the federal government of the United States.
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LexisNexis
LexisNexis Group is a corporation providing computer-assisted legal research as well as business research and risk management services.
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Lockyer v. Andrade
Lockyer v. Andrade,, decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.
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Malice aforethought
Malice aforethought was the "premeditation" or "predetermination" (with malice) that was required as an element of some crimes in some jurisdictions, citing, West's Encyclopedia of American Law, edition 2.
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Manslaughter
Manslaughter is a common law legal term for homicide considered by law as less culpable than murder.
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Mayhem (crime)
Mayhem is a common law criminal offense consisting of the intentional maiming of another person.
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Mischief
Mischief or malicious mischief is the specific name for different criminal offenses in a number of different jurisdictions.
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Model Penal Code
The Model Penal Code (MPC) is a text designed to stimulate and assist U.S. state legislatures to update and standardize the penal law of the United States of America.
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Motor vehicle
A motor vehicle is a self-propelled vehicle, commonly wheeled, that does not operate on rails, such as trains or trams and used for the transportation of passengers, or passengers and property.
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Motor vehicle theft
Motor vehicle theft or grand theft auto is the criminal act of stealing or attempting to steal a motor vehicle.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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Mutual combat
Mutual combat occurs when two individuals intentionally and consensually engage in a fair fight, while not hurting bystanders or damaging property.
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Perjury
Perjury is the intentional act of swearing a false oath or falsifying an affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters a generation material to an official proceeding.
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Police radio
Police radio is a communications radio system used by law enforcement agencies all over the world.
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Possession of stolen goods
Possession of stolen goods is a crime in which an individual has bought, been given, or acquired stolen goods anyway.
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Prison
A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.
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Robbery
Robbery is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear.
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Sanford Kadish
Sanford "Sandy" H. Kadish (Sept. 7, 1921Andrew Cohen,, Berkeley Law News, Sept. 5, 2014. - Sept. 5, 2014) was an American criminal law scholar and theorist.
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Shoplifting
Shoplifting (also known as boosting and five-finger discount), is the unnoticed theft of goods from an open retail establishment.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.
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Theft
In common usage, theft is the taking of another person's property or services without that person's permission or consent with the intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
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Three-strikes law
In the United States, habitual offender laws (commonly referred to as three-strikes laws) were first implemented on March 7, 1994 and are part of the United States Justice Department's Anti-Violence Strategy.
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Traffic
Traffic on roads consists of road users including pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars, buses and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel.
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Train wreck
A train wreck or train crash is a type of disaster involving one or more trains.
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Treason
In law, treason is the crime that covers some of the more extreme acts against one's nation or sovereign.
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Trespass
Trespass is an area of criminal law or tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels and trespass to land.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Code
The Code of Laws of the United States of America (variously abbreviated to Code of Laws of the United States, United States Code, U.S. Code, U.S.C., or USC) is the official compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal statutes of the United States.
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Vandalism
Vandalism is an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property".
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Weapon
A weapon, arm or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm.
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William Curtis Noyes
William Curtis Noyes (19 August 1805 in Schodack, Rensselaer County, New York – 25 December 1864 in New York City) was an American jurist.
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187 (slang)
Section 187 (often referenced in slang simply as 187) of the California Penal Code defines the crime of murder.
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2005 Glendale train crash
The 2005 Glendale train crash is the second-deadliest incident in the history of Metrolink, the commuter railroad in the Los Angeles, California, area.
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420 (cannabis culture)
420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term in cannabis culture that refers to the consumption of cannabis, especially smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. (or 16:20 in 24-hour notation) and smoking cannabis in celebration on the date April 20 (which is 4/20 in U.S. form).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Penal_Code
