Types of crimes/criminal activities

1. Abduction: carrying of a person by force
2. Arson : intentionally setting fire to property
3. Assassination : murder of a public personality
4. Battery: physical violence upon another person
5. Bootlegging: illegal production, distribution or sale of something already owned or copyrighted
6. Break-in : illegal entry of another’s property
7. Bunko: swindle by taking advantage of a person’s ignorance
8. Counterfeiting : manufacturing of fake money
9. Defalcation : failure to meet promise
10. Embezzlement : theft of money or appropriation of property
11. Extortion : demand for payment by force or threatening
12. Felony: serious crime
13. Frame : falsely accuse an innocent party
14. Graft : bribery especially of public figures
15. Gunrunning : smuggling of fire arms
16. Hold up : armed robbery
17. Infraction : violation of law
18. Larceny : theft of personal property
19. Libel : publication of statement damaging to another’s reputation
20. Malfeasance: a wrong doing committed by a public official
21. Manslaughter : taking of human life by accident or negligence
22. Mayhem : willful infliction of bodily injury on another person
23. Mugging : robbery especially in public place
24. Mutiny : a military rebellion against the authority
25. Peculation : embezzlement of public funds
26. Perjury : lying under oath/giving false testimony n court
27. Pilferage : theft of small amounts done over a time to avoid detection
28. Piracy : bootlegging
29. Plunder: robbery by force especially during war time
30. Poaching: taking of fish or game from private property or protected reserve
31. Racketeering : operation of a business characterized by systematically dishonest practices
32. Rustling: stealing usually cantle or horses
33. Safecracking: forcible entry into locked safe to steal its contents
34. Sedition: incitement into rebellion against government
35. Shoplifting : theft from store by person posing as customer
36. Slander : making of false or malicious verbal statements
37. Subornation :inducing another to commit an illegal act especially forgery
38. Swindling: performing fraudulent business transactions
39. Treason: betrayal of one’s country or government
40. Vandalism: defacing or damaging of another’s property purposelessly

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