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crimes, misdemeanors and felonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Burglary | The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft (excludes tents, trailers, and other mobile units used for recreational purposes). |
| Criminally Negligent Homicide | A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence. |
| Misdemeanor | An offense punishable by incarceration, usually in a local confinement facility, for a period whose upper limit is prescribed by statute in a given jurisdiction, typically one year or less. |
| Felony | A criminal offense punishable by death or by incarceration in a prison facility for at least one year |
| Capital Felony | An individual in which the state seeks the death penalty or shall be punished by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life without parole or by death. |
| Murder | The unlawful killing of a human being. Murder is a generic term that in common usage may include first- and second-degree murder, manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, and other similar offenses. |
| Arson | Any willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn, with or without intent to defraud, a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, and so on. |
| Assault | An unlawful attack by one person upon another. |
| Larceny/Theft | The unlawful taking or attempted taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property, from the possession or constructive possession of another. |
| Robbery | The unlawful taking or attempted taking of property that is in the immediate possession of another by force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. |
| Sexual Assault | unlawful sexual intercourse achieved through force and without consent |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. |
| Penal Code | Refers to a set of laws which are related to the punishment of crimes and offenses |
| Index Crime | includes murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. These eight crimes serve as a common indicator of the nation's crime experience because of their seriousness and frequency of occurrence |
| Aggravated Assault | The unlawful, intentional inflicting, or attempted or threatened inflicting, of serious injury upon the person of another |
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