Police Scotland Definitions
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1. Abettor A person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime
or offence.
2. Accessory Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of
the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.
3. Assault A crime at common law, and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the
person of another, whether or not actual injury is inflicted.
4. Attempt to Per- A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional
vert the Course of action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime, or
Justice the bringing of an offender to justice.
5. Breach of the A crime at common law and is constituted by one or more persons conducting
Peace himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is
severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance
to the community.
6. Culpable and Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Reckless Firerais-
ing
7. Forgery and Ut- A crime at common law, and consists in the making and publishing of a writing
tering feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another.
8. Fraud Falsehood - False representation by word of mouth or writing or false conduct.
Fraud - Intention to deceive and defraud, and
Wilful Imposition - what is required is that there is a practical result, i.e. inducing
a person to do what they would otherwise not have done.
9. House
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Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished,
or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against
intrusion by unauthorised persons.
10. Malicious Mis- A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of,
chief or damage to the property of another.
11. Offensive Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person
Weapon or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves
or by some other person.
12. Reset A crime at common law, committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner,
to receive and keep property, knowing it had been appropriated by theft, robbery,
embezzelment or fraud.
13. Robbery A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniusly appropriates
property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
14. Theft A crime at common law and is the taking or appropriating of property without the
consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority.
15. Vandalism An offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property
of another without reasonable excuse.
16. Wilful Fireraising Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property.
17. Domestic Abuse Any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial abuse which might
amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a re-
lationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, cohabiting, civil
partnership or otherwise) or ex- partners. The abuse can take place in the home
or elsewhere including online.
18. Hate Crime Any crime motivated wholly or partly by malice and ill will (hostility or prejudice)
based on one or more actual or perceived characteristics.
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1. Abettor A person who incites, instigates, encourages or counsels another to commit a crime
or offence.
2. Accessory Anyone who aids the perpetrator with advice or assistance before or at the time of
the crime or who acts in concert by watching whilst the crime is committed.
3. Assault A crime at common law, and is every attack directed to take effect physically on the
person of another, whether or not actual injury is inflicted.
4. Attempt to Per- A crime at common law which can be described as any overt and intentional
vert the Course of action calculated, to interfere with either the normal investigation of a crime, or
Justice the bringing of an offender to justice.
5. Breach of the A crime at common law and is constituted by one or more persons conducting
Peace himself or themselves in a riotous or disorderly manner, where such conduct is
severe enough to cause alarm to ordinary people and threaten serious disturbance
to the community.
6. Culpable and Is committed when property is set on fire as a result of a reckless act by the accused.
Reckless Firerais-
ing
7. Forgery and Ut- A crime at common law, and consists in the making and publishing of a writing
tering feloniously intended to represent and pass for the genuine writing of another.
8. Fraud Falsehood - False representation by word of mouth or writing or false conduct.
Fraud - Intention to deceive and defraud, and
Wilful Imposition - what is required is that there is a practical result, i.e. inducing
a person to do what they would otherwise not have done.
9. House
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, Police Scotland Definitions
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_gs15ev
Includes any dwelling house or other roofed building, finished or unfinished,
or any part of a building used as a separate dwelling, which is secured against
intrusion by unauthorised persons.
10. Malicious Mis- A crime at common law constituted by wilful, wanton, and malicious destruction of,
chief or damage to the property of another.
11. Offensive Includes any article made or adapted for the use of causing injury to the person
Weapon or intended by the person having it with them for such use by either themselves
or by some other person.
12. Reset A crime at common law, committed by any person with intent to deprive the owner,
to receive and keep property, knowing it had been appropriated by theft, robbery,
embezzelment or fraud.
13. Robbery A crime at common law committed by any person who feloniusly appropriates
property, by means of violence or threats of violence.
14. Theft A crime at common law and is the taking or appropriating of property without the
consent of the rightful owner or other lawful authority.
15. Vandalism An offence for any person to wilfully or recklessly destroy or damage the property
of another without reasonable excuse.
16. Wilful Fireraising Committed when a person intentionally sets fire to any form of property.
17. Domestic Abuse Any form of physical, verbal, sexual, psychological or financial abuse which might
amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a re-
lationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, cohabiting, civil
partnership or otherwise) or ex- partners. The abuse can take place in the home
or elsewhere including online.
18. Hate Crime Any crime motivated wholly or partly by malice and ill will (hostility or prejudice)
based on one or more actual or perceived characteristics.
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