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Most financial crimes that have too few fragments for their own post can be found here: Potential Titles: Money - Dubiously Legal [category]. I'm not going to duplicate them because I'll loose track of what's where. Once those words have their own posts, I'll put them in both places.

Crimes of deceit may be found here: Potential Titles: Deceit and Trickery [category].

Many acts and tools of violence can be found in the posts about war/combat and weapons: Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military - Activities [category], Potential Titles: War/Combat/Military Adjacent [category], and Potential Titles: Weapons, Armor, and Adjacent [category].

Religious crimes and punishments are mostly going to be found here: Potential Titles: Supernatural/Religious [category] and Potential Titles: Rank/Titles - Religious [category].

People committing and/or punishing crime will often be here: Potential Titles: Ranks/Titles - People and Groups in Communities/Relationships [category].

Not all of these are always crimes or always violent. Some things listed (such as Blasphemy, Obscenity, and Vagrancy) are things that I personally don't consider crimes but that are often legally banned. Some things are technically legal or hard to define well enough to legislate but violent/cruel or things I consider dubious behaviors/actions. Some things, such as Rebellion or Protest, are crimes from certain points of view but may be viewed as justified and righteous by participants.

Additionally, some of the acts of violence listed have been used as judicial punishments, and some words listed in the Law: Repercussions post are (or ought to be) crimes or, at least, are extremely controversial as legally imposed punishments..


Abduct:
Wanted to abduct nothing more valuable than our dreams - Duane Ackerson "Porch Lights"

Maple leaves abducted by the wind - Stanley Moss "Winter Flowers"

Abet:
Still the glorious sham abetting - Roger Casement "The Peak of the Cameroons"

Abuse:
The recent abuses of math - Jim Daniels "Treaty"

Accomplice:
Accomplices that come befriending languid hours - Lascelles Abercrombie "Ryton Firs: The Voices in the Dream"

Accomplice of a million crimes - Emily Lawless "From the Burren VII: A Reproach"

Be your bright accomplices - Mary Szybist "In the Beginning God Said Light"

Divine accomplice of those perilous-sweet - Edith Wharton "La Folle du Logis"

Accuse.

Addict/Addiction.

Affront:
A charnel that affronts the sky - Arthur Davison Ficke "A Watteau Melody"

My breathing is an affront - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Fannie Lou Hamer"

So dares affront the great god Pan - Robert Nichols "A Faun's Holiday"

Alias:
To watch this alias of a race - Jay Deshpande "Wanting a Child"

Alibi.

Annihilate.

Arson:
Heir to arson's fuel and rag - Mary Jo Bang "What Is Red"

Exhaling with an arsonist's guilt - William Brewer "Appalachia, Your Genesis"

Arsonist of all smaller fires - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"

From some cold arson of the mind - Sandra McPherson "Driving in Circles with the Blind"

Assassin/Assassination.

Assault.

Bandit.

Beg.

Black Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Blasphemy.

Bootleg:
Bootlegged in the marketplace - William Archila "Saturn's Country"

Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

The bully of the bootleg town - Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr. "The Tragedy of Pete"

Bribe.

Brigand:
Brigands and bootleggers and burglars - Lisa M. Bradley "Una Cancion de Keys"

Offer a share of your brigand-sun - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Retort Discourteous"

Buccaneer:
Playing buccaneer among the minnows - Edmund Blunden "Perch-Fishing"

Cannibal:
In some cannibalistic parent and child reunion - Duane Ackerson "Bird Seed"

Algorithms cannibalize our art with parasite teeth - Wren Douglas "Fursonas Are Not Enough, I Need to Be a Moss-Coated Mech"

Distinguish capitalism from cannibalism - Jessica Kim "Montage"

Carnage:
Sprawl in the carnage and count the spoils - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"

No trade but battle and carnage - Li Po "Fighting" transl. by Arthur Waley

Through the red sea of the carnage - "New-England's Advance" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.6, June 1862]

Chicanery:
Chicanery's brought to succor darkest crime - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Contraband:
One endless night, stolen contraband - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Counterfeit.

Crime.

Crook/Crooked.

Culprit:
To look with grief on the culprit's way - Mary Gardiner "The Sacrifice" [The Knickerbocker Feb. 1844]

Debauch:
In a Hell's debauch of dyes - Vachel Lindsay "A Doll's 'Arabian Nights'"

Desecrate:
Must desecrate this silent time - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"

Desecration in your eyes - Nikita Gill "Persephone to Theseus and Pirithous"

To meet at last the desecrated dawn - Mary Cornelia Hartshorne "Three Poems of Christmas Eve: Tonight"

Desperado:
For desperados and bleached bones - Blaize Kelly Strothers "The West Is Dead"

Dimebag:
Pockets pregnant with moondust in dimebags - Mike Allen "Freebasing the Moon"

Disgrace:
Disgrace and reproaches here - Arthur Rimbaud "Hellish Night" transl. by Bertrand Mathieu

When in disgrace with fortune - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXIX"

And cures not the disgrace - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXXIV"

Dismember:
A diagonal dismemberment of silk - Michael Leong "from Transmitting the Vertical Immensity of Coniferous Light"

Needed no dismembered star to guide you - Ann K. Schwader "Spiral Scream"

Drug Market:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Drunk.

Duress:
Some landscapes under duress - Aditi Machada "Rhapsody"

As sluggish waters in duress - Lola Ridge "Still Water (To D.L.)"

That evades the duress of our current reality - Prageeta Sharma "I Am Learning to Find the Horizons of Peace"

Embezzle:
A temporal embezzlement siphoning away my time - Mike Allen "How I Will Outwit the Time Thieves"

Evil.

Eviscerate:
the evisceration of slang on altars made unkind - upfromsumdirt (Ron Davis) "To Stand Down (And To Stand By)"

Fiasco:
A member of the fiasco survivor's club - Mary Jo Bang "A Sonata for Four Hands, II"

Filch:
Filch'd her fortune and her fame - Jesse Hammond "Confidence and Credit" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.10 no.267, Aug. 4, 1827]

Secrets filched and heralded abroad - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Flay:
Flay the very heavens with its raging - Giosue Carducci "Old Figurines" transl. by Frank Sewall

magpies that flay blackbirds - Tanque R. Jones "Hany"

Foul:
Go for the foul with thirty seconds left - Jake Skeets "Drunktown"

Fratricide:
And children born for fratricidal war - Giosue Carducci "Dante [Strong forms were those of the New Life]" transl. by Frank Sewall

Fugitive.

Guilt.

Gun-Running:
Black market gun-runners of militias and drug dealers - Gary Copeland Lilley "War"

Harass:
That harassed and oppressed the day - Archibald Lampman "With the Night"

Swarms of Officers to harass our people - Tracy K. Smith "Declaration"

As the crows harass an owl - Alison Swan "The Old Days"

Harlot:
Silken harlots, velvet wine - Harold Acton "The Prodigal Son"

Havoc.

Highwayman:
To ride with the Bandit King and his highwaymen - Kelly Stewart "The Bandit King"

Hijack:
Hijack the next spaceship and travel to Mars - Julie Babcock "Dick and Jane Burn Down the House"

Hijacked the Doppler radar screen - D.A. Powell "Useless Landscape"

Undertake the hijacking of language - Prageeta Sharma "Poetry Anonymous"

Homocide:
Homocide begins with the heartbeat - Caroline Harper New "Interview with a Cervidologist"

Hoodwink:
Harm those they hoodwink - Tommaso Campanella "XXVII. The Bad Prince" transl. by John Addington Symonds

Hooligan:
Shredding the sky in their hooligan gangs - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "swifts"

Hostage.

Identity Theft:
Identity theft has knocked off a few years - Karen A. Romanko "The Invisible Woman Runs for President"

Illicit.

Impale:
Impaled on the pinnacles of a brassy skyscape - Bruce Boston "The Lesions of Genetic Sin"

Sweet beats of jazz impaled - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Impaled on slivers of wind - Bob Kaufman "Walking Parker Home"

Impale the sky on silver spears - William Watson "A Child's Hair"

Iniquity:
Who take the legacy and iniquity - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan

Refrained from clutching at iniquity - C.H.B. Kitchin "Ruler of infinite austerity"

A steady diet of iniquities - Thomas Lynch "Argyle in Agony"

Inviolate/Violate.

Jeopardy:
Shield them from that jeopardy - Elinor Jenkins "Dreams Trespassing"

To jeopardize my own supremacy - "John Bull to Jonathan" [The Continental Monthly v.2 no.3, Sept. 1862]

Agencies that jeopardize the birdsong - June Jordan "6.3.96-6.4.96"

Larceny:
With petty larcenies and pokers - Henry S. Leigh "Cupid's Mamma"

Lechery:
To license lust with all a lecher's rage - J. Fairfax McLaughlin writing as Pasquino "The American Cyclops, the Hero of New Orleans, and Spoiler of Silver Spoons"

Lynch:
Also where lynched men die - Frank Barbour Coffin "The Negro's 'America'"

Malcontent:
Rough-hewn hours of practice and malcontent - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"

Malcontents and mutineers - Charles Cotton "Contentation"

The alphabet for interrupters, malcontents - Carolina Ebeid "Wearing a Mask, Speaking into the Camera"

Massacre:
Lend their limbs to massacre - Rasha Abdulhadi "Safe Harbor in Enemy Homes"

Never gave consent to those red days of massacre - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Last Banquet"

I was a massacre for the dark - Maggie Damken "Before I Opened My Eyes"

Mayhem:
Can't make this mayhem a miracle - brian g. gilmore "denny mcclain, in garden city, michigan (for scott & dan)"

A mayhem that torments a city - Mark McMorris "Dear Michael (2)"

Minion.

Misdemeanor:
Withholding judgment on our misdemeanors - Boris Dralyuk "The Passing of the Bungalows"

The misdemeanors of uncounted time - Charlotte Perkins Gilman "How Would You?"

Murder.

Mutilate:
Among these discreet mutilations - Xan Phillips "I Never Felt Comfortable in My Own Skin so I Made a New One"

Neglect/Negligence.

Obscene:
In the middle of the troupe obscene - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

Mumbling out dull obscenity - Stephen Vincent Benet "Young Blood"

Such obscenity of trespass - D.H. Lawrence "The Mosquito"

Offend/Offense.

Perjure:
Perjury and threats drove them on - "By Memory Inspired" [A Book of Irish Verse ed. by W.B. Yeats]

Swell with haste the perjured sails - T.S. Eliot "Sweeney Erect"

The only truth in all our perjured composition - Edwin Arlington Robinson "The False Gods"

You dare to say with perjured lips - Henry van Dyke "Mare Liberum"

Pilfer.

Piracy/Pirate.

Plunder.

Protest.

Pyromania:
My nostalgia is a pyromaniac - Jamaal May "The Tendencies of Walls"

Rampage:
All the bizarre debris of your exotic rampage - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Your exotic rampage through the annals of myth - Bruce Boston & Marge Simon "Ajax Redux"

Rebel/Rebellion/Rebellious.

Revolt/Revolution.

Revolutionary.

Riot.

Rob.

Rogue.

Sin.

Slander.

Slaughter.

Smother.

Stab.

Steal/Stole.

Stolen.

Strangle

Tamper:
Without fear of our tampering - J. Estanislao Lopez "The Systemic"

Theft.

Thief.

Torment.

Torture.

Transgress:
In the wake of transgression - Carl Phillips "Radiance versus Ordinary Light"

Under my transgression bow - William Shakespeare "Sonnet CXX"

One in transgression and one in remorse - William Watson "England to Ireland"

Treason.

Trespass.

Vagabond.

Vagrant.

Vice.

Vicious.

Victim.

Vile.

Villain.

Violate.

Violence/Violent.

Wicked.


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