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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)
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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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