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  1. Incident in an Alley is a 1962 American neo noir crime film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Chris Warfield, Erin O'Donnell and Harp McGuire. [1] The film's premise rests on a legal precedent that police may use force against fleeing suspects if the suspect has committed a crime and is warned of the officer's intent to shoot.

  2. There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun incident, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  3. The punishment is imprisonment of up to two years, a fine of $5,000, or both. Clearly, this is a victimless crime, since no physical damage has taken place. And, to exacerbate the lack of logic, the fine is to be paid to the state, not the “injured party.”.

  4. Treason, sedition, sabotage, espionage, and terrorism are all considered crimes against the state and are punishable under federal law. State governments have also adopted varying degrees legislation with regard to these crimes. In the main, however, these crimes are prosecuted under federal law.

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  5. State crime is defined most convincingly by Penny Green and Tony Ward as state organizational deviance involving the violation of human rights. The crimes are organizational in nature and are carried out by vast state systems and corporate structures.

  6. Abstract. During most of the Republic, the Romans viewed only perduellio as a threat to state security. Other threats were dealt with through institutionalised mechanisms of stability in Rome’s political structure, above all through the public lawmaking assemblies.

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  8. There is no simple, fixed, unassailable, objective definition of crime. The meaning of crime cannot be separated from the many and varied uses of the term in a particular society. Social scientists would describe this by saying the meaning of crime is a social construction.

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