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crimes such as poisoning farm animals and crops for political aims

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the crime of being married to more than one person at the same time

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the crime of using biological or chemical weapons for political aims

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the crime of making someone give you money or do what you want by threatening to tell people embarrassing information about them

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bad treatment of a child by an adult, especially an adult in a position of trust or authority

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the legal offence of planning a serious crime

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contempt of court

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the crime of not doing what a judge in a court of law has ordered you to do

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the crime of not doing something that would have prevented a serious accident

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the offence of writing or saying something bad about someone that is not true and makes people have a bad opinion of them

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the crime of preventing someone from leaving a place when you have no legal right to do this

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the action of producing false documents or information in order to get what you want

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a crime against your country, for example the crime of trying to take control of the government or helping your country’s enemies

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the business of helping people to enter a country illegally and forcing them to work there for very little money because they have no rights

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the intention to commit a crime or an offence

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the illegal act of writing things about someone that are not true

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a situation in which a crowd of people control a place illegally

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the crime of lying when you give evidence in a court of law

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the crime of owning something illegal, for example drugs or weapons

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an activity that offends most of the people in a place, for example being noisy or showing offensive sexual behaviour

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the crime of saying something about someone that is not true and is likely to damage their reputation

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the practice of secretly and illegally taking goods or people into or out of a country, especially as a way of earning money

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the crime of offering money or something else of value to someone in order to make them commit a crime

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the crime of following and watching someone in a threatening way

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the crime of helping your country’s enemies or of trying to destroy your country’s government

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the crime of living on the street and asking people for money

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failure to do what you have agreed to do in a covenant

an occasion when someone finds out or uses information about your private life, especially illegally