Abuse

Abuse is a general term for the misuse of a person or thing, causing harm to the person or thing, to the abuser, or to someone else. Abuse can be something as simple as damaging a piece of equipment through using it the wrong way, or as serious as severe maltreatment of a person. Abuse may be direct and overt, or may be disguised and covert.

Criminals

Sites relating to specific criminals.

Domestic Violence

Conduct against another member of a family which can include beatings, threats, stalking or other forms of intimidation, harassment, neglect, and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. May include any act by one member of a family that causes one of its members physical or emotional harm.

Internet Crime

About crimes via the internet.

Kidnapping

The unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment

Murder

The crime of murder is unlawful homicide: the act of killing another human being with malicious intent. It is this intent, particularly when it demonstrates premeditation, which distinguishes murder from accidents and from manslaughter, which in Anglo-American law is unlawful homicide through negligence or otherwise without specific malicious intent.

News and Media

This area is for news sources that pertain to crime.

Organized Crime

Organized crime is crime carried out systematically by formal criminal organizations.

Prevention

Refers to approaches and activities to reduce the likelihood of crime.

Prisons

A prison is a place in which people are confined and deprived of a range of liberties. Prisons conventionally are institutions authorised by governments and forming part of a country's criminal justice system, or as facilities for holding prisoners of war. A prison system is the organizational arrangement of the provision and operation of prisons.

Publications

This category is for websites about non-fiction crime books and their authors.

Research

Research is an active, diligent and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviors, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws or theories. The term "research" is also used to describe the collection of information about a particular subject.

Sex Offenses

Scholarly research and literature relating to sex offense typology, judicial and corrections policies, sex offender registries and treatment, articles, statistics and prevention topics.

Theft

Theft is the broad act of stealing, that is the taking of property from another, depriving the rightful owner of the same.

As all crimes are acts of deprivation, a wide variety of acts including arson, fraud, plagiarism, kidnapping, looting, piracy, extortion, counterfeiting, or vandalism could be construed as forms of theft. This ODP category therefore focuses on criminal larceny and its near-cousins.

Larceny is simple theft, such as shoplifting from a store, or pickpocketing. When force or intimidation against the victim is used to effect the theft, as in a mugging or carjacking, the charge is robbery. Burglary, on the other hand, entails the breaking and entering a structure, usually by stealth and usually to commit a theft or other crime. Embezzlement is the misappropriation of property which has been entrusted with an individual, by that individual, for his or her own use.

Trials

Legal proceedings consisting of the judicial examination of issues by a competent tribunal.

Unsolved

This category is for unsolved crime sites.

Victims

Anyone who suffers emotional or physical injuries or who dies as a result of a crime.