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List of English criminal offences


List of English criminal offences


This list of English criminal offences is a partial categorization of English criminal law offences.

Offences against the person

Offences against property

  • Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883
  • Offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990

Firearms and offensive weapons

  • Offences under section 1(1) of the Prevention of Crime Act 1953
  • Offences under sections 139 and 139A of the Criminal Justice Act 1988
  • Offences under the Knives Act 1997

Forgery, personation and cheating

See forgery:

  • Offences under Part I of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981
  • Falsification of pedigree, contrary to section 183(1)(b) of the Law of Property Act 1925
  • Improper alteration of the registers, contrary to section 124 of the Land Registration Act 2002
  • Offences under section 8 of the Non-Parochial Registers Act 1840
  • Offences under sections 36 and 37 of the Forgery Act 1861
  • Forgery of passport, contrary to section 36 of the Criminal Justice Act 1925
  • Offences under sections 133 and 135 of the County Courts Act 1984
  • Offences under section 13 of the Stamp Duties Management Act 1891; and supplementary offences under sections 14 and 15
  • Offences under section 6 of the Hallmarking Act 1973
  • Offences under section 126 of the Mental Health Act 1983
  • Offences under sections 121 and 122(6) of the Gun Barrel Proof Act 1868

Motor vehicle document offences:

  • Offences under section 97AA and 99(5) of the Transport Act 1968
  • Offences under section 65 of the Public Passenger Vehicles Act 1981
  • Offences under section 115 of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
  • Offences under section 173 of the Road Traffic Act 1988
  • Offences under regulations 11(1) to (3) of the Motor Vehicles (E.C. Type Approval) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3107) made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972
  • Offences under section 44 of the Vehicles Excise and Registration Act 1994
  • Offences under regulations 10(1) to (3) the Motor Cycle (E.C. Type Approval) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1531) made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972
  • Offences under section 38 of the Goods Vehicles (Licensing of Operators) Act 1995

See personation:

  • Personation of a juror
  • Offences under section 90(1) of the Police Act 1996
  • Offences under section 30(1) of the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005
  • Offences under section 34 of the Forgery Act 1861
  • Offences under section 24 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969
  • Offences under section 60 of the Representation of the People Act 1983

See cheating:

  • Offences under section 17 of the Gaming Act 1845
  • Offences under section 1 of the Fraudulent Mediums Act 1951

Offences against the state

  • High treason
  • Misprision of treason
  • Compounding treason
  • Treason felony
  • Attempting to injure or alarm the Sovereign, contrary to section 2 of the Treason Act 1842
  • Contempt of the sovereign
  • Trading with the enemy
  • Offences under the Official Secrets Acts 1911 to 1989
  • Offences under the Incitement to Disaffection Act 1934
  • Causing disaffection, contrary to section 91 of the Police Act 1996
  • Causing disaffection, contrary to section 6 of the Ministry of Defence Police Act 1987
  • Incitement to sedition or disaffection or promoting industrial unrest, contrary to section 3 of the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act 1919
  • Offences of procuring and assisting desertion under military law
  • Offences relating to terrorism
  • Offences of directing quasi military organizations and wearing uniforms for political purposes under the Public Order Act 1936
  • Piracy iure gentium
  • Piracy with violence, contrary to the Piracy Act 1837
  • Offences under the Slave Trade Act 1824
  • Offences under the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870
  • Offences under the Immigration Act 1971
  • Coinage offences under Part II of the Forgery and Counterfeiting Act 1981
  • Offences relating to public stores under the Public Stores Act 1875
  • Offences relating to military stores under military law
  • Offences against postal and electronic communication services
  • Misconduct in public office
  • Refusal to execute public office
  • Offences of selling public offices under the Sale of Offices Act 1551 and Sale of Offices Act 1809
  • Purchasing the office of clerk of the peace or under-sheriff, contrary to section 27 of the Sheriffs Act 1887
  • Cheating the public revenue
  • Offences under the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979
  • Tax evasion and money laundering offences

See also Offences against military law in the United Kingdom

Collection James Bond 007

Harmful or dangerous drugs

  • Offences under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, the Intoxicating Substances (Supply) Act 1985, the Licensing Act 2003, section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 and other provisions relating to tobacco, and the Drug Trafficking Act 1994.
  • Offences under the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016.

Offences against religion and public worship

  • Offences under sections 75 to 77 of the Marriage Act 1949

Offences of disturbing public worship

  • Offences under section 2 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860
  • Offences under section 7 of the Burial Laws Amendment Act 1880
  • Offences under section 59 of the Cemeteries Clauses Act 1847
  • Offences under articles 18 and 19 of the Local Authorities' Cemeteries Order 1977 (SI 1977/204)

Offences against the administration of public justice

  • Doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice - a.k.a. perverting the course of justice, defeating the ends of justice, obstructing the administration of justice
  • Concealing evidence, contrary to section 5(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1967
  • Contempt of court a.k.a. criminal contempt
  • Intimidation, contrary to section 51(1) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
  • Taking or threatening to take revenge, contrary to section 51(2) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
  • Perjury, contrary to section 1 of the Perjury Act 1911
  • Perjury, contrary to section 6 of the Piracy Act 1850
  • Offences under sections 2 to 4 of the Perjury Act 1911
  • Making a false statutory declaration, contrary to section 5 of the Perjury Act 1911
  • Offences under section 6 of the Perjury Act 1911
  • Fabrication of false evidence
  • Offences under section 89 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967
  • Offences under 106 of the Magistrates' Courts Act 1980
  • Offences under section 11(1) of the European Communities Act 1972
  • Escape
  • Permitting an escape
  • Assisting a prisoner to escape, contrary to section 39 of the Prison Act 1952
  • Breach of prison/breaking prison
  • Rescue/rescuing a prisoner in custody
  • Harboring an escaped prisoner, contrary to section 22(2) of the Prison Act 1952
  • Taking part in a prison mutiny, contrary to section 1(1) of the Prison Security Act 1992
  • Offences under section 128 of the Mental Health Act 1983
  • Causing a wasteful employment of the police, contrary to section 5(2) of the Criminal Law Act 1967
  • Administering an unlawful oath, contrary to section 13 of the Statutory Declarations Act 1835

Public order offences

  • Offences under the Public Order Act 1986
  • Offences under section 31 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
  • Offences under Part V of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
  • Offences under Part II of the Criminal Law Act 1977
  • Offences under the Protection from Eviction Act 1977
  • Bomb hoaxes, contrary to section 51 of the Criminal Law Act 1977

Offences against public morals and public policy

  • Bigamy, contrary to section 57 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861
  • Offences under section 2(1) of the Obscene Publications Act 1959
  • Offences under section 2(2) of the Theatres Act 1968
  • Certain offences under the Postal Services Act 2000
  • Offences under section 1(1) of the Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981
  • Offences under section 1(1) of the Protection of Children Act 1978
  • Offences under section 160 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988
  • Offences under section 170 of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 consisting of importation in breach of the prohibition under section 42 of the Customs Consolidation Act 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36)
  • Offences under the Bribery Act 2010

Protection of children and vulnerable adults

  • Child sexual exploitation
  • Child trafficking
  • Protection of Children Act 1978
  • Offenses under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006

Protection of animals and the environment

See Cruelty to animals#United Kingdom and Environmental crime

  • Offenses under the Animal Welfare Act 2006
  • Mutilation
  • Docking (animal)
  • Animal fighting

Road traffic and motor vehicle offences

Participatory and inchoate offences

  • Encouraging or assisting crime - Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act 2007
  • Soliciting to murder, contrary to section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861
  • Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of an offence
  • Conspiracy, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977
  • Conspiracy to defraud
  • Conspiracy to corrupt public morals
  • Conspiracy to outrage public decency
  • Attempt, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Attempts Act 1981

Parts 1 to 3 of Schedule 3 to the Serious Crime Act 2007 list numerous statutory offences of assisting, encouraging, inciting, attempting or conspiring at the commission of various crimes.

Other

  • Mayhem
  • Kidnapping
  • False imprisonment
  • Cheating the public revenue
  • High treason
  • Misprision of treason (disputed - alleged to be statutory)
  • Compounding treason
  • Contempt of the sovereign
  • Misconduct in public office
  • Refusal to execute public office
  • Doing an act tending and intended to pervert the course of public justice - a.k.a. perverting the course of justice, defeating the ends of justice, obstructing the administration of justice
  • Contempt of court a.k.a. criminal contempt
  • Fabrication of false evidence
  • Escape
  • Permitting an escape
  • Breach of prison/breaking prison
  • Rescue/rescuing a prisoner in custody
  • Public nuisance
  • Outraging public decency
  • Conspiracy to defraud
  • Conspiracy to corrupt public morals
  • Conspiracy to outrage public decency
  • Common assault aka assault (disputed - held to now be statutory, said obiter not to be)
  • battery (disputed - held to now be statutory, said obiter not to be)
  • Assault with intent to rob (may now be statutory)
  • Rape
  • Assault with intent to rape (continued existence disputed)

See also

  • English criminal law

Notes

References


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