SLETC Academy Vocabulary
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- Arson
- A person willfully and maliciously sets fire, or burns, or causes the burning of any structure, forest land, or property
- Asportation
- The moving or carrying away of an item
- Bailee
- A person having the storage, care, safekeeping, custody, or possession of any vehicle subject to registration
- Burglary
- Entering any designated building or structure with the intent to commit theft, or any other felony
- Control
- The ability to exercise a restraining or directing influence over something
- Defrauding an innkeeper
- Obtaining any food, fuel, services, or accommodations at a designated facility without paying, with intent to defraud the proprietor or manager
- Designated facilities
- For the crime of defrauding an innkeeper, includes hotel, motel, restaurant, lodging house, auto camp, marine facility, etc.
- Dispose of
- Give, give away, loan, offer, offer for sale, sell, or transfer
- Entering and occupying real property
- A person does not obtain the consent of the owner, the owner's agent, or the person in lawful possession before entering
- Forgery
- Defrauding by signing the name of another, or of a ficticious person, without obvious authority, or otherwise altering a document with the intent to defraud
- Forest land
- Any brush covered land, cut over land, forest, grasslands, or woods
- Grand theft
- Is a felony depending on the value or type of the property stolen
- incendiary device
- A device that is constructed or designed to start an incendiary fire by remote, delayed or instant means, but no device commercially manufactured primarily for the purpose of illumination
- Incendiary fire
- A fire that is deliberately ignited under circumstances in which a person knows that the fire should not be ignited
- Maliciously
- A wish to vex, defraud, annoy, or injure another person, or an intent to do a wrongful act, established either by proof or presumption of law
- Occupation
- A person exercises physical control over land where the land is possessed and enjoyed
- Personal property
- Any movable object(s) owned by an individual; all property other than real estate
- Petty theft
- All thefts that are not grand theft
- possessing or receiving personal property with altered serial numbers or identification marks
- A crime which involves any person who knowingly buys, sells, receives, disposes of, conceals, or has in possession any personal property from which the manufacturer’s serial number or any other distinguishing number or identification mark has been removed, defaced, covered, altered, or destroyed
- Possession of burglary tools
- Possessing, making, altering or repairing almost any kind of instrument or tool with the intent to use the tool to break or enter into a specified structure or to commit any misdemeanor or felony
- Possession of flammable or combustible material
- Possessing any flammable or combustible material or substance to commit arson
- Property
- Includes money, labor, animals, crops, or real or personal items
- Real property
- Land and immovable property, affixed to, or growing from that land
- Receiving stolen property
- Receiving, buying, selling, concealing, or withholding any property that has been stolen or obtained by extortion where the person knows or should reasonably have known the property was stolen or extorted
- Recklessly
- A reasonable person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that his or her act will set fire to, burn, or cause to burn a structure, forest, or property
- Repossession
- The seller, or seller’s agent, recovers or takes back with complete control goods that were sold on conditional sales contract when the buyer fails to pay for them
- Repossessor
- The seller, or seller’s agent, who physically attempts to retrieve the goods
- Seller
- The person who retains the title for the goods being purchased over time until all the conditions of the sales contract have been met
- Specified structures
- For the purposes of burglary, includes house, room, shop, tent, railroad car, inhabited camper, aircraft, mine, warehouse, etc.
- Structure
- Any building, commercial or public tent, bridge, tunnel, or power plant
- Theft
- The taking and carrying away (asportation) of the personal property of another with the intent to permanently deprive the owner
- Trespass
- Entering of any lands for the purpose of injuring any property or with the intention of interfering with, obstructing, or injuring any business or occupation
- Unauthorized entry of dwelling
- Entering or remaining in any noncommercial dwelling without consent of the owner
- Unlawfully causing a fire
- Recklessly setting fire to, burning, or causing to be burned, any property
- Vandalism
- A person maliciously damages, destroys, or defaces any real or personal property of another person
- Vehicle
- A device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved, or drawn upon a highway, excepting a device moved exclusively by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks
- Vehicle theft
- A person drives or takes a vehicle of another person, without the consent of the owner thereof, with intent to either permanently or temporarily deprive of title or possession of such vehicle
- Against a person’s will
- Without the consent of the person
- Assault
- An unlawful attempt, coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another
- Attempt
- An incomplete attempt to commit an act (e.g., rape)
- Color of authority
- Acting as a public official
- Consent
- Positive cooperation in act or attitude pursuant to an exercise of free will
- Confidentiality
- Confidentiality in sex crimes refers only to the fact that the victim’s name and address will be withheld from public record
- Copulating
- An act of coupling or uniting two things
- Duress (force or fear)
- A direct or implied threat of force, violence, danger, hardship, or retribution sufficient to coerce a reasonable person of ordinary susceptibility to perform an act to which one would otherwise not have submitted
- Empathy
- Identifying with another’s feelings to offer support
- Foreign object
- Any instrument, substance, device, or part of the body, except a penis
- indecent exposure
- An act in which a person willfully and lewdly exposes his or her person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place or in any place where there are present other individuals to be offended or annoyed thereby
- Intent
- Purposeful commission or omission of an act that the law declares to be a crime
- Intimate parts
- Intimate parts (private parts) refers to the sexual organs, anus, groin, buttocks of any person or the breasts of a female
- Lewdly
- With specific intent to direct public attention to one’s genitals for the purpose of sexual gratification
- Mayhem
- The act of removal or disablement of a portion of a person’s body to include permanent disfigurement
- Menace
- Any threat, declaration, or act which shows an intention to inflict injury upon another
- Objectivity
- Reality rather than personal feelings
- Oral copulation
- The act of copulating the mouth of one person with the sexual organ or anus of another person
- Penetration with a foreign object
- An act in which the genital or anal opening of a person is penetrated by any instrument, substance, or device other than a penis
- Polygraph
- A test that measures the physiological changes the body triggered by emotional responses to specific verbal questions
- Private parts
- Private parts (intimate parts) refers to the sexual organs, anus, groin, or buttocks of any person and the breast of a female
- Public official
- A person employed by a governmental agency, who has the authority, as part of that position, to incarcerate, arrest, or deport another
- Rape
- An act of penile/vaginal intercourse committed without consent of the victim
- Sexual battery
- The act of touching the skin of another person’s intimate part(s) for the purpose of sexual arousal, gratification, or abuse, against the person’s will
- Sodomy
- Sexual conduct in which there is contact between the penis of one person and the anus of another with any penetration, however slight
- Threatening to retaliate
- Any threat to kidnap or falsely imprison, or inflict extreme pain, serious bodily injury, or death
- Unknown object
- Any foreign object, substance, instrument, device, or any part of the body, including a penis
- Willfully
- An act done intentionally, knowingly, purposely, and without justifiable excuse, as distinguished from an act done carelessly, thoughtlessly, heedlessly, and inadvertently