Criminal Offense
The Criminal Offense Resource Center provides valuable information concerning a wide variety of criminal offenses. Some of the most common offences include burglary, assault, battery and carjacking. For information regarding drug possession laws, please the the dedicated drug possession resource center. The resources below are purely informational and are not intended to replace the advice of a qualified defense attorney.
All Criminal Offense Articles
Check Fraud
Writing a bad check with fraudulent purposes can be a serious offense. Check fraud specifically may involve signing another person’s name to a c...
Forging Documents
Forgery is commonly thought of as the act of signing another person’s name to a document, like forging another’s signature on a check, for insta...
Burglary
Burglary is generally defined as the intrusion or the trespassing into someone else’s property. The act of burglary is generally a statutory offens...
Common Legal Terms
Accomplices: Any individual assisting a principal, the other person, in the commission of a crime is deemed an accomplice. While differing from ...
Embezzlement
What is embezzlement? This is an act of dishonestly appropriating or secreting assets and a term usually heard in the corporate world. An embezzle...
Grand Theft Auto
Grand theft auto is a specific type of felony involving the theft of motor vehicles. The illegal act may also be charged as “motor vehicle theft....
Kidnapping
The number of people who are taken against their will is increasing especially when it comes to children. Kidnapping may occur for any number of rea...
Car Jacking
With the increase in the number of carjackings, the federal government stepped in and passed a law in 1992 which states if a death occurs during the...
Assault and Battery
Assault and battery are very serious crimes that are perpetrated by at least one individual against at least one other individual. Although they a...