Scottish Criminal Law - List of Offences

List of Offences

Homicide

  • Murder.
  • Culpable homicide. (This would be manslaughter in England)
  • Corporate homicide, contrary to section 1 of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

Abortion, etc.

  • Abortion.
  • Concealment of pregnancy.

Assault and related offences

  • Assault (this offence can be charged in an aggravated form while still being considered to be the same offence).
  • Culpable and reckless injury.
  • Culpable and reckless endangering of the public.
  • Uttering threats.

Sexual offences

See Sexual offences in the United Kingdom#Scotland

Theft etc.

  • Theft.
  • Plagium (e.g. child-stealing, and it is considered to be an aggravated form of theft).
  • Stouthrief
  • Other aggravated thefts - theft by housebreaking, theft by opening lockfast places, and theft of mail.
  • Housebreaking with intent to steal.
  • Opening lockfast places with intent to steal.
  • Offences under s.57 of the 1982 Act (trespassing and possession of articles from which an intent to steal may be inferred).
  • Embezzlement (or breach of trust and embezzlement).
  • Robbery.
  • Piracy, both at common law and under the law of nations.
  • Hijacking.
  • Fraud.
  • Uttering as genuine
  • Offences under the Forgery of Foreign Bills Act 1803.
  • Numerous statutory frauds.
  • Reset.
  • Statutory offences akin to reset.
  • Extortion.
  • Unsolicited goods and services (Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971)

Corruption

  • Bribery (principally of a judicial officer)
  • Statutory offences of corruption: Public Bodies Corrupt Practices Act 1889, Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, ss.38 and 68 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (c.65)
  • Electoral offences, Representation of the People Act 1983.

Criminal damage

  • Malicious mischief.
  • Offences under the Explosive Substances Act 1883.
  • Vandalism, s.52 of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995; formerly s.78 of the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.
  • Fireraising (very occasionally a distinction is made between wilful fireraising and culpable and reckless fireraising).
  • Cruelty to animals, Protection of Animals (Scotland) Act 1912.
  • Sinking and destroying a ship with intent to defraud insurers, common law. Also offences under the Aviation and Maritime Security Act 1990.

Public order and decency

  • Mobbing (or 'mobbing and rioting').
  • Breach of the peace.
  • Violation of sepulchres.
  • Shameless indecency.
  • Indecent exposure.
  • Blasphemy.
  • Bigamy.
  • Riding a horse furiously

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