crime

Crime
Crime is an illegal (or unlawful) act.
Crimes are punished according to their seriousness. More serious crimes are given harsher penalties.
Individual human societies may define crime and crimes differently. While every crime violates the law, not every violation of the law counts as a crime; for example: breaches of contract and of other civil law may rank as offences or as "infractions". Modern societies generally regard crimes as offences against the public or the state, distinguished from torts (offences against private parties that can give rise to a civil cause of action).
A serious offense, especially one in violation of morality.
An unjust, senseless, or disgraceful act or condition.
A person who has been found guilty of a crime.
An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction.
An act or omission prohibited and punished by law.
A crime is an offence against a public law. This word, in its most general sense, includes all offences, but in its more limited sense is confined to felony.
Crimes are defined and punished by statutes and by the common law. Most common law offences are as well-known and as precisely ascertained as those which are defined by statutes; yet, from the difficulty of exactly defining and describing every act which ought to be punished, the vital and preserving principle has been adopted; that all immoral acts which tend to the prejudice of the community are punishable by courts of justice.
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.