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Burglary

Index Burglary

Burglary, also called breaking and entering (B&E) and housebreaking, is the act of illegally entering a building or other areas without permission, typically with the intention of committing a further criminal offence. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 76 relations: Anglo-Saxons, Anti-climb paint, Arson, Back-formation, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Burgus, California, Civil and political rights, Clifton Park, New York, Code of Hammurabi, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Common law, Consolidated Laws of New York, Cox's Criminal Cases, Crime statistics, Crimes Act 1961, Criminal Code (Canada), Dog, Dog bite, Door breaching, Edward Coke, Etymology, Felony, Finland, Frank Schmalleger, Gentleman thief, German language, Germanic languages, Grievous bodily harm, Home invasion, Hybrid offence, Identity theft, Inchoate offense, Indictable offence, Indictment, Institutes of the Lawes of England, Intention (criminal law), Joshua Dressler, Kidnapping, Larceny, Law of Florida, Law of the United States, Lock and key, Massachusetts, Matthew Hale (jurist), Misdemeanor, Murder, New Hampshire, New Zealand, Newsweek, ... Expand index (26 more) »

  2. Inchoate offenses
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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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Anti-climb paint

Anti-climb paint (also known as non-drying paint, anti-intruder paint, anti-vandal grease) is a class of paint consisting of a thick oily coating that is applied with a stiff brush, trowel or by hand using a protective glove.

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Arson

Arson is the act of willfully and deliberately setting fire to or charring property.

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Back-formation

In etymology, back-formation is the process or result of creating a new word via inflection, typically by removing or substituting actual or supposed affixes from a lexical item, in a way that expands the number of lexemes associated with the corresponding root word.

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Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (UJC) of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for measuring crime, criminal victimization, criminal offenders, victims of crime, correlates of crime, and the operation of criminal and civil justice systems at the federal, state, tribal, and local levels.

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Burgus

A burgus (Latin, plural burgi) or turris ("tower") is a small, tower-like fort of the Late Antiquity, which was sometimes protected by an outwork and surrounding ditches.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Civil and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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Clifton Park, New York

Clifton Park is a suburban town in Saratoga County, New York, United States.

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Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed during 1755–1750 BC.

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Commentaries on the Laws of England

The Commentaries on the Laws of England (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.

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Common law

Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.

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Consolidated Laws of New York

The Consolidated Laws of the State of New York are the codification of the permanent laws of a general nature of New York enacted by the New York State Legislature.

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Cox's Criminal Cases

Cox's Criminal Cases are a series of law reports of cases decided from 1843 to 26 June 1941.

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Crime statistics

Crime statistics refer to systematic, quantitative results about crime, as opposed to crime news or anecdotes.

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Crimes Act 1961

The Crimes Act 1961 is an act of New Zealand Parliament that forms a leading part of the criminal law in New Zealand.

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Criminal Code (Canada)

The Criminal Code (Code criminel) is a law that codifies most criminal offences and procedures in Canada.

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Dog

The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.

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Dog bite

A dog bite is a bite upon a person or other animal by a dog.

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Door breaching

Door breaching is a process used by military, police, or emergency services to force open closed or locked doors.

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Edward Coke

Sir Edward Coke (formerly; 1 February 1552 – 3 September 1634) was an English barrister, judge, and politician.

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Etymology

Etymology (The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p. 633 "Etymology /ˌɛtɪˈmÉ’lÉ™dÊ’i/ the scientific study of words and the way their meanings have changed throughout time".) is the scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.

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Felony

A felony is traditionally considered a crime of high seriousness, whereas a misdemeanor is regarded as less serious.

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Finland

Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe.

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Frank Schmalleger

Frank Schmalleger (born 1947) is an American criminologist, academic, and author.

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Gentleman thief

A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Grievous bodily harm

Assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term used in English criminal law to describe the severest forms of battery.

See Burglary and Grievous bodily harm

Home invasion

A home invasion, also called a hot prowl burglary, is a sub-type of burglary (or in some jurisdictions, a separately defined crime) in which an offender unlawfully enters into a building residence while the occupants are inside.

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Hybrid offence

A hybrid offence, dual offence, Crown option offence, dual procedure offence, offence triable either way, or wobbler is one of the special class offences in the common law jurisdictions where the case may be prosecuted either summarily or on indictment.

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Identity theft

Identity theft, identity piracy or identity infringement occurs when someone uses another's personal identifying information, like their name, identifying number, or credit card number, without their permission, to commit fraud or other crimes.

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Inchoate offense

An inchoate offense, preliminary crime, inchoate crime or incomplete crime is a crime of preparing for or seeking to commit another crime. Burglary and inchoate offense are inchoate offenses.

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Indictable offence

In many common law jurisdictions (e.g. England and Wales, Ireland, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore), an indictable offence is an offence which can only be tried on an indictment after a preliminary hearing to determine whether there is a prima facie case to answer or by a grand jury (in contrast to a summary offence).

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Indictment

An indictment is a formal accusation that a person has committed a crime.

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Institutes of the Lawes of England

The Institutes of the Lawes of England are a series of legal treatises written by Sir Edward Coke.

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Intention (criminal law)

In criminal law, intent is a subjective state of mind (mens rea) that must accompany the acts of certain crimes to constitute a violation.

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Joshua Dressler

Joshua Dressler is an American retired law professor.

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Kidnapping

In criminal law, kidnapping is the unlawful abduction and confinement of a person against their will.

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Larceny

Larceny is a crime involving the unlawful taking or theft of the personal property of another person or business.

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Law of Florida

The law of Florida consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law and local 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 nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.

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Lock and key

A lock is a mechanical or electronic fastening device that is released by a physical object (such as a key, keycard, fingerprint, RFID card, security token or coin), by supplying secret information (such as a number or letter permutation or password), by a combination thereof, or it may only be able to be opened from one side, such as a door chain.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Matthew Hale (jurist)

Sir Matthew Hale (1 November 1609 – 25 December 1676) was an influential English barrister, judge and jurist most noted for his treatise Historia Placitorum Coronæ, or The History of the Pleas of the Crown.

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Misdemeanor

A misdemeanor (American English, spelled misdemeanour elsewhere) is any "lesser" criminal act in some common law legal systems.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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New Zealand

New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Old English

Old English (EnglisÄ‹ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.

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R v Collins

R v Collins 1973 QB 100 was a unanimous appeal in the Court of Appeal of England and Wales which examined the meaning of "enters as a trespasser" in the definition of burglary, where the separate legal questions of an invitation based on mistaken identity and extent of entry at the point of that beckoning or invitation to enter were in question.

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Ram-raiding

Ram-raiding is a type of burglary in which a heavy vehicle is driven into the windows or doors of a building, usually a department store or jeweller's shop, to allow the perpetrators to loot it.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Robbery

Robbery (from Old French rober ("to steal, ransack, etc."), from Proto-West Germanic *rauba ("booty")) is the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by use of fear.

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Robert Peel

Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet (5 February 1788 – 2 July 1850), was a British Conservative statesman who twice was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1834–1835, 1841–1846), and simultaneously was Chancellor of the Exchequer (1834–1835).

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Safety and security window film

Safety and security window films are polyester or PET films that are applied to glass and glazing in order to hold them together if the glass is shattered (similar to laminated glass).

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Scots law

Scots law is the legal system of Scotland.

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Security alarm

A security alarm is a system designed to detect intrusions, such as unauthorized entry, into a building or other areas, such as a home or school.

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Self-defense

Self-defense (self-defence primarily in Commonwealth English) is a countermeasure that involves defending the health and well-being of oneself from harm.

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Sexual Offences Act 2003

The Sexual Offences Act 2003 (c. 42) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Statute

A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.

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Sweden

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe.

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Theft

Theft is the act of taking 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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Theft Act 1968

The Theft Act 1968 (c. 60) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Torah

The Torah (תּוֹרָה, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.

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Trespass

Trespass is an area of tort law broadly divided into three groups: trespass to the person, trespass to chattels, and trespass to land.

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Trespass to land

Trespass to land is a common law tort or crime that is committed when an individual or the object of an individual intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) enters the land of another without a lawful excuse.

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Twilight

Twilight is light produced by sunlight scattering in the upper atmosphere, when the Sun is below the horizon, which illuminates the lower atmosphere and the Earth's surface.

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Uniform Crime Reports

The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program compiles official data on crime in the United States, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC; French: Office des Nations unies contre la drogue et le crime) is a United Nations office that was established in 1997 as the Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention by combining the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP) and the Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Division in the United Nations Office at Vienna, adopting the current name in 2002.

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Vandalism

Vandalism is the action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property.

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Watergate scandal

The Watergate scandal was a major political controversy in the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974, ultimately resulting in Nixon's resignation.

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Wiktionary

Wiktionary (rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

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William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law.

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10-20-Life

The Florida Statute 775.087, known as the 10-20-Life law, is a mandatory minimum sentencing law in the U.S. state of Florida.

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See also

Inchoate offenses

Robbery

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burglary

Also known as Armed burglary, B & E, B and E, B&E, Bank burglary, Berglary, Berglery, Break and enter, Break-and-enter, Breaking & Entering, Breaking and Entering, Breaking and entry, Burglar, Burglaries, Burglarize, Burglarry, Burglars, Burglary (history), Burgle, Burgler, Burglery, Burgling, Cat burglar, Cat-burglar, Catburglar, Housebreaker, Housebreaking (crime).

, Old English, R v Collins, Ram-raiding, Rape, Robbery, Robert Peel, Safety and security window film, Scots law, Security alarm, Self-defense, Sexual Offences Act 2003, Statute, Sweden, Theft, Theft Act 1968, Torah, Trespass, Trespass to land, Twilight, Uniform Crime Reports, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Vandalism, Watergate scandal, Wiktionary, William Blackstone, 10-20-Life.