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crime
thumb|Human civilisations throughout history have universally considered murder to be a crime.
evil
thumb|In many Abrahamic religions, demons are considered to be evil beings and are contrasted with angels, who are their good contemporaries.|354x354px Evil, as a concept, is usually defined as profoundly immoral behavior, and it is related to acts that cause unnecessary pain and suffering to others.
black market
market in which goods or services are traded illegally
vice
thumb|upright|Henry Fuseli, [[Virtue reclaiming Youth from the arms of Vice, 1806–1807]]
gang
thumb|A Street fighting|street level rumble of Apache gang members battling Parisian Police officers en masse on 14 August 1904 A gang is a group or society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior, with such behavior often constituting a form of organized crime.
rape culture
sociological concept used to describe a setting in which rape is pervasive and normalized due to societal attitudes about gender and sexuality
confiscation
Confiscation (from the Latin confiscatio "to consign to the fiscus, i.e. transfer to the treasury") is a legal form of seizure by a government or other public authority. The word is also used, popularly, of spoliation under legal forms, or of any seizure of property as punishment or in enforcement of the law.
white-collar crime
financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals
public security
the function of governments which ensures the protection of citizens, persons in their territory, organizations, and institutions against threats to their well-being
manslaughter
Manslaughter is a term in common law for homicide considered less culpable than murder. The distinction between murder and manslaughter is sometimes said to have first been made by the ancient Athenian lawmaker Draco in the 7th century BC.
facial composite
graphical representation of one or more eyewitnesses' memories of a face
unreported employment
illegal work
illegalism
thumb|André Soudy, a member of the [[Bonnot Gang, 1911]] Illegalism is a tendency within anarchism that emerged in certain parts of Europe, especially Italy and France, in the last decades of the 19th century. Closely linked to and dependent on individualist anarchism, it encompasses anarchists who aim to carry out their struggle through criminal acts using the idea of individual reclamation. This concept is the idea that since capitalists would steal from the people, it would be legitimate to steal back from capitalists. Illegalists are generally characterized by their strong commitment to th
crime boss
person in charge of a criminal organization
lookout
thumb|Lookout boy aloft, by Harrison Weir thumb|A U.S. Navy sailor standing the lookout watch aboard a warship. A lookout or look-out is a person in charge of the observation of hazards. The term originally comes from a naval background, where lookouts would watch for other ships, land, and various dangers. The term has now passed into wider parlance.
fear of crime
fear of being a victim of crime as opposed to the actual probability of being a victim of crime
gun violence
broadly defined as violence committed with the use of a gun
immigration and crime
perceived or actual relationships between crime and immigration
no-go area
area barred to civil authorities or other groups by a paramilitary, insurgency, or violence/crime, sometimes de facto
strain theory
sociological theory on the origins of criminal behavior
smuggling tunnel
secret subterranean passage used for the smuggling of goods and people
Work-at-home scheme
scams focused on businesses run from one's home
crime preparation
activity