Criminal Offences

Question 1

What is section 1 of the theft act 1968?

Answer 1

Theft

A person is guilty of theft is he dishonestly appropriates property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving the other of it; and thief and steal shall be construed accordingly

Question 2

What is section 12(1) of the theft act?

Answer 2

Taking without owners consent

A person commits an offence if, without lawful consent of the owner or other lawful authority he takes any conveyance for his own or another’s use, or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it

Question 3

What is section 1 of the criminal damage act 1971?

Answer 3

Criminal damage

Under this section a person without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence

Question 4

What is section 1 of the criminal attempts act 1981?

Answer 4

Criminal attempts

If, with intent to commit an offence to which this section applies, a person does an act which is more than merely predatory to the commission of the offence, he is guilty of attempting to commit the offence

Question 5

What is trespass?

Answer 5

Trespass is committed by a person who is improperly on someone else’s property without permission.

NOT AN ARREST-ABLE OFFENCE ALONE

Question 6

What is section 128(1) of the serious organised crime and police act 2005?

Answer 6

Trespassing on a protected site

A person commits an offence if he enters, or is on, any protected site in England and Wales as a trespasser:
Protected site is a nuclear site or designated site

Question 7

What is section 68 of the criminal justice and public order act 1994?

Answer 7

Aggravated trespass

Trespass on land(in the open air) and, in relation to any lawful activity taking place on that land:
Intimidates any persons so as to deter from that lawful activity or
Obstructs that activity or
Disrupts that activity

Question 8

What is section 9 of the theft act 1968?

Answer 8

Burglary

A person is guilty of burglary if:
Having entered any building or part of a building he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building

or inflicts or attempts to inflict GBH

or doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein

Question 9

What is section 25 of the theft act 1968?

Answer 9

Going equipped

A person may be guilty of an offence if, when not at his place of abode, he has with him any article in the course of or in connection with burglary or theft

Question 10

What is section 8 of the theft act 1968?

Answer 10

Robbery

A person commits an offence under this act if he steals and immediately before or at the time and in order to do so, he uses force on any person, or puts or seeks to put any person in fear of being then and there subjected to force