List of English criminal offences

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

Offences against the person

Offences against property

Firearms and offensive weapons

Forgery, personation and cheating

See forgery:

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:

See cheating:

Offences against the state

See also Offences against military law in the United Kingdom

Harmful or dangerous drugs

Offences against religion and public worship

Offences of disturbing public worship

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
  • Harbouring 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 against public morals and public policy

  • Bigamy, contrary to section 57 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861

Protection of children and vulnerable adults

Protection of animals and the environment

See Cruelty to animals#United Kingdom and Environmental crime

Road traffic and motor vehicle offences

Participatory and inchoate offences

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

See also

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