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Crime in Venezuela
Crime in Venezuela: lethal violence rose from among Latin America's lowest in the 1980s to a peak around 2016 (81.4 per 100,000 in 2018), then fell to 26.2 by 2024 per the OVV; government claims 4.1; no official data.
Crime of aggression
Crime of aggression, or crime against peace: the leadership crime of planning or executing a state act of aggression, defined in Rome Statute Article 8bis, codified via the 1974 GA Resolution 3314 and 2010 Kampala amendments, activated at the ICC in 2018.
Crime of apartheid
The crime of apartheid is a crime against humanity under international law, defined as inhumane acts within an institutionalized regime of racial domination, codified in 1973 and 1998.
Crime of passion
A crime of passion, also called crime passionel, is a killing committed in the heat of passion or in response to provocation; it downgrades murder to voluntary manslaughter.
Crime pattern theory
Crime pattern theory, developed by Paul and Patricia Brantingham in 1984, is a spatial criminology theory explaining that crime occurs where offenders' awareness spaces from daily routines intersect with suitable targets, via nodes, paths, edges, crime generators, and crime attractors.
Crime prevention
Crime prevention: strategies to stop crime before it occurs, spanning social development, situational/environmental design (CPTED), hot spots and focused deterrence policing, and reintegration, with evidence that displacement is uncommon and diffusion of benefits typical.
Crime prevention through environmental design
Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a multidisciplinary approach using urban and architectural design to reduce crime and the fear of crime, coined by C. Ray Jeffery in 1971.
Crime Scene (크라임 씬) (South Korean TV series)
Crime Scene (크라임씬) is Korea's first RPG murder-mystery variety show, aired on JTBC in three seasons 2014–2017, revived as Crime Scene Returns on TVING in 2024 and Crime Scene Zero on Netflix in 2025.
Crime statistics
Crime statistics quantify criminal offenses through police-recorded systems such as the FBI's UCR/NIBRS and through victimization surveys like the NCVS; coverage, recording rules, and voluntary reporting shape the trends they show.
Crime Survey for England and Wales
Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), formerly the British Crime Survey, is the ONS face-to-face victimisation survey of about 31,000 adults 16+ in households, first run in 1982, measuring crime including unreported offences, with quarterly Crime in England and Wales statistics.
Crimean Karaites
Crimean Karaites: a Turkic-speaking Karaite Jewish community of Crimea, first recorded in 1278, legally separated from Rabbanite Jews under Russian rule (1795, 1863); Khazar-origin theory rejected by scholarship; small population today.
Crimean Khanate
Crimean Khanate (Kırım Hanlığı), state founded 1441 by Hacı I Giray of the Chinghisid Giray dynasty, a Golden Horde successor under Ottoman protection, known for slave-raiding economy; annexed by Russia in 1783.
Crimean raids
The Crimean raids (Крымские набеги) were repeated invasions of Muscovy by the Crimean Khanate through the sixteenth century, ending after Devlet Giray's defeat at Molodi in 1572.
Crimean Tatar language
Crimean Tatar, also called Crimean Turkish (qırımtatar tili), is a Turkic language with three dialects, spoken in Crimea and Uzbekistan and severely endangered after the 1944 deportation of its speakers.
Crimean Tatars
Crimean Tatars (Qırımlı), a Turkic Muslim people indigenous to Crimea; khanate annexed by Russia 1783, deported by Stalin in 1944, returned after 1989, repressed under Russian occupation since 2014.
Crimean War
The Crimean War (1853–1856), also called the Eastern War, pitted Russia against Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia. Key facts: siege of Sevastopol, Treaty of Paris neutralized the Black Sea, Nightingale's nursing reforms, first war photography.
Crimes against humanity
Crimes against humanity: acts like murder, extermination, enslavement, torture, persecution, and apartheid committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack on civilians with knowledge; defined at Nuremberg 1945 and in Rome Statute Article 7; no dedicated global convention exists yet.
Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun
The Crimes and Sacrileges of Nabu-šuma-iškun is a Babylonian polemical text, preserved on a damaged tablet from Uruk, denouncing the Chaldean king Nabu-šuma-iškun, who died in 748 BC.
Criminal code
A criminal code is a statute restating a jurisdiction's criminal law systematically. Covers Canada's 1892 Criminal Code, the contested reach of the Napoleonic Code pénal, US Title 18, the Model Penal Code, and colonial spread.
Criminal Code (Canada)
Criminal Code (Canada), Code criminel, An Act respecting the Criminal Law: the 1892 federal statute, now R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46, defining most Canadian criminal offences, defences, punishments, and procedures, enacted under the Constitution Act, 1867, section 91(27).
Criminal Code of the Republic of China
The Criminal Code of the Republic of China (中华民国刑法) is the criminal code enacted in 1928 and revised in 1935, still in force in Taiwan.
Criminal codes of Africa
The criminal codes of Africa are the consolidated statutes defining offenses and penalties in African states, many inherited from colonial French, English, and Belgian codes and revised after independence.
Criminal codes of Latin America
The criminal codes of Latin America are the penal and procedure codes of the region's states, which share a civil-law tradition of general and special parts.
Criminal investigation
Criminal investigation: the process of collecting and examining evidence to establish what happened in a suspected crime and who was responsible. Covers investigative process, crime scene work, forensic science history, eyewitness error, and adversarial versus inquisitorial systems.
Criminal Investigation and Detection Group
The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, also known as the Criminal Investigation Service, is the PNP's unit for monitoring and prosecuting economic sabotage and crimes committed by highly placed syndicates.
Criminal Investigation Department
Criminal Investigation Department (CID): the plainclothes detective branch of a police force, originating with Scotland Yard's 1878 CID and spread through the British Empire to India, Kenya, Malaysia, Nepal, and other forces.
Criminal justice
Criminal justice: the system of laws, procedures, institutions, and policies governing police, courts, and corrections before, during, and after a crime, including prosecution, sentencing, incarceration, and recidivism after prison release.
Criminal justice system of Japan
The criminal justice system of Japan (刑事司法制度): courts, prosecutors, police, corrections under the Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure; three-tier courts, Saiban-in lay judges since 2009, over 99% conviction rate, 23-day custody, 2017 and 2023 sex crime reforms.
Criminal law
Criminal law is the body of law defining crimes and punishing offenders, distinct from civil law. Covers actus reus, mens rea, burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt, crime categories, comparative systems, and 2026 reforms in Canada and the UK.
Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013
Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013, also called the Nirbhaya Act: Indian law No. 13 of 2013 redefining rape under IPC s.375, creating acid attack, stalking, voyeurism and trafficking offences, adding s.376A/376E death penalty, and amending CrPC and Evidence Act.