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Florida Criminal Law Concepts
986 legal terms defined by Florida statute, each with its verbatim statutory definition.
A
- A driving privilege restricted to business purposes only
- A driving privilege restricted to employment purposes only
- Abandon
- Abscond
- Abuse
- Abuse of an elderly person or disabled adult
- Access
- Access device
- Acquirer
- Active investigation
- Addictions receiving facility
- Additional offense
- Adjudicated guilty
- Adjudicatory hearing
- Administration
- Administration of criminal justice
- Administrative assistant
- Administrative probation
- Adult
- Adult bookstore
- Adult entertainment establishment
- Adult live performance
- Adult theater
- Advanced age
- Adversarial preliminary hearing
- Advertisement
- Aggrieved person
- Agricultural chemicals manufacturing facility
- Agriculture warrant
- Agritourism activity
- Airbag
- Alcoholic beverage
- Altered sexual depiction
- Ammunition
- Animal
- Animal control officer
- Animal enterprise
- Animal fighting
- Animal pest
- Annual felony caseload
- Annual felony conflict caseload
- Annual misdemeanor caseload
- Annual misdemeanor conflict caseload
- Antique firearm
- Antishoplifting or inventory control device
- Antishoplifting or inventory control device countermeasure
- Arbitration
- Archaeologist
- Armor-piercing bullet
- Arrested
- Assignation
- Athletic coach
- Attorney assignment date
- Attorney withdrawal date
- Aural transfer
- Authority
- Authority figure
- Authorization
- Authorized game
- Autism
- Autopsy
- Auxiliary correctional officer
- Auxiliary correctional probation officer
- Auxiliary law enforcement officer
B
C
- Cable operator
- Cable system
- Call
- Call for service
- Caller
- Calling record
- Cannabinoid receptor agonist
- Cannabis
- Capitol Complex
- Card issuer
- Cardholder
- Cardroom
- Cardroom distributor
- Cardroom management company
- Cardroom operator
- Care
- Career offender
- Caregiver
- Cargo
- Carjacking
- Case number
- Case status
- Catalytic converter
- Catastrophic injury
- Cave
- Cave life
- Cellular telephone
- Center
- Change in status at an institution of higher education
- Charge description
- Charge disposition
- Charge modifier
- Chemical weapon
- Chief of police
- Child
- Child abuse
- Child care facility
- Child in need of services
- Child pornography
- Child who has been found to have committed a delinquent act
- Chokehold
- Chop shop
- Circuit
- Citation
- Civil facility
- Civil proceeding
- Civil restitution lien
- Claimant
- Cloning paraphernalia
- CODIS
- Coercion
- Commercial horticulture property
- Commercial purposes
- Commercial sexual activity
- Commissioner
- Commodity
- Common carrier
- Communicate
- Communication
- Communications device
- Communications service
- Communications service provider
- Communications services
- Communications services provider
- Community
- Community college degree or equivalent
- Community control
- Community control program
- Community forensic system
- Community sanction
- Compact administrator
- Compacting state
- Comparable ordinance violation
- Computer
- Computer contaminant
- Computer network
- Computer program or computer software
- Computer system
- Computer trespasser
- Concealed firearm
- Concealed handcuff key
- Concealed weapon
- Concurrent or consecutive sentence flag
- Conditional release
- Conducts
- Confidential informant
- Consent
- Construction site
- Contraband article
- Contract
- Contractor-employed correctional officer
- Contractor-operated correctional facility
- Control
- Controlled buy
- Controlled sale
- Controlled substance
- Controlled substance counterfeiting material
- Conveyance
- Convicted offender
- Copper or other nonferrous metals
- Corporation
- Correctional agency
- Correctional facility
- Correctional facility employee
- Correctional institution
- Correctional officer
- Correctional probation officer
- Correctional system
- Correctional work program
- Corrections official
- Costs and expenses
- Counterfeit airbag
- Counterfeit catalytic converter
- Counterfeit controlled substance
- Counterfeit credit card
- Counterfeit or fictitious personal identification information
- County detention facility
- County of residence
- County prisoner
- County residential probation center
- Course of conduct
- Court official
- Covered event
- Covered participant
- Covered person
- Covered platform
- Credible threat
- Credit card
- Credit counseling agency
- Credit counseling services
- Credit service organization
- Credit-card-making equipment
- Creditor contribution
- Crime
- Crime victim
- Crime watch vehicle
- Criminal gang
- Criminal gang associate
- Criminal gang-related activity
- Criminal history information
- Criminal history record
- Criminal intelligence information
- Criminal intelligence information system
- Criminal investigative information
- Criminal investigative information system
- Criminal justice agency
- Criminal Justice Estimating Conference
- Criminal justice executive
- Criminal justice information
- Criminal justice information system
- Criminal justice training school
- Criminal proceeding
- Crisis stabilization care
- Crisis-intervention services
- Critical infrastructure
- Critical infrastructure facility
- Cruelty
- Culpable negligence
- Cultivating
- Custodian
- Customer
- Cyberstalk
D
- Daily number of correctional officers
- Damages or losses
- Dangerous fentanyl or fentanyl analogs
- Dangerous unauthorized alien offender
- Dart-firing stun gun
- Data
- Dating relationship
- Dating violence
- Day treatment
- Deadly force
- Deal
- Dealer in property
- Debt management services
- Deception
- Defendant
- Defense attorney type
- Deferred prosecution or pretrial diversion agreement date
- Deferred prosecution or pretrial diversion hearing date
- Deliberately assisting
- Delinquency program
- Delinquency program staff
- Delivery system
- Deputy compact administrator
- Derelict vessel
- Designated foreign terrorist organization
- Destructive device
- Detached catalytic converter
- Detention care
- Detention center or facility
- Detention facility
- Detention hearing
- Deviate sexual intercourse
- Direct care
- Direct supervision
- Disabled adult
- Disaster
- Disciplinary violation and action
- Disparagement
- Dispense
- Dispenser
- Disposes of
- Disposition
- Disposition date
- Disposition hearing
- Disposition type
- Disseminate
- Distribute
- Distribution
- Distributor
- Distributor of an industrial product
- District medical examiner
- Diverse population
- Diversion program
- DNA
- DNA record
- DNA sample
- Documentary material
- Domestic violence
- Domestic violence flag
- Dominoes
- Donations
- Donor
- Drone
- Drug
- Drug offender probation
- Dump
- Dwelling
E
- Early truancy intervention
- Economic damage
- Effective parole release date
- Elderly offender
- Elderly person
- Electric weapon or device
- Electrical substation
- Electronic communication
- Electronic communication service
- Electronic communications system
- Electronic device
- Electronic health recordkeeping system
- Electronic mail address
- Electronic serial number
- Electronic signature
- Electronic storage
- Electronically publish
- Eligible for compensation
- Emergency
- Emergency medical care provider
- Emergency medical technician
- Emergency medical transportation services
- Emergency opioid antagonist
- Emergency responder
- Employer
- Employing agency
- Employment information
- Encapsulating machine
- Endeavor
- Enter
- Entering the county
- Enterprise
- Entitled to compensation
- Environment
- Environmental management practices
- Equality
- Established date of operation
- Establishment
- Evidence-based practices
- Excessive use of force
- Executive director
- Expert advice or assistance
- Expired credit card
- Exploding bullet
- Exploitation
- Exploitation of an elderly person or disabled adult
- Explosive
- Explosive compound
- Express and informed consent
- Expunction
- Expunction of a criminal history record
- Extension of credit
- Extraordinary circumstance
F
- Facilities
- Facility
- Fake airbag
- Fake catalytic converter
- False information
- Family
- Family in need of services
- Family member
- Family or household member
- Farm
- Farm operation
- Farm produce
- Farm product
- Farm theft
- Farmer
- Federal immigration agency
- Female genitals
- Fictitious name
- Fiduciary relationship
- File
- Filer
- Financial harm
- Financial institution
- Financial instrument
- Financial transaction
- Finished product
- Fire bomb
- Fire canine
- Firearm
- Firefighter
- Fireworks
- First responder
- Fiscally constrained county
- Flag state
- Flare
- Flechette shell
- Florida releasee
- Forcible felony
- Foreign agent
- Foreign government
- Foreign instrumentality
- Foreign intelligence information
- Foreign subversive organization
- Forensic facility
- Forfeiture proceeding
- Free
- Funeral or burial
- Funeral procession
G
H
- Habitual felony offender
- Habitual misdemeanor offender
- Habitual offender flag
- Habitual truant
- Habitual violent felony offender
- Habitual violent felony offender flag
- Handcuff key
- Handgun
- Harass
- Harassment
- Harm
- Harmful to minors
- Hate group
- Head of the department
- Health care facility
- Health care practitioner
- Health care products
- Health care provider
- Health care provider network entity
- Health care provider or health care facility
- Health care regulatory board
- Health insurer
- Hearing officer
- High-capacity detachable box magazine
- Highway
- Highway commissioners
- Historic property
- HIV test
- Hoax weapon of mass destruction
- Holder of a concealed weapons or concealed firearms license
- Home-invasion robbery
- Homeless status
- Homologue
- Hospital
- Hospital personnel
- House
- Human skeletal analyst
- Human trafficking
- Humane method
I
- Identifiable minor
- Identifiable person
- Identification mark
- Identified victim of child pornography
- Image
- Imaging device
- Immigration detainer
- Imprisonment
- Improper benefit
- Improperly tampers
- In any manner
- In custody
- In need of care and treatment
- Incompetent to consent to treatment
- Incompetent to proceed
- Independent sanctioning authority
- Indictment
- Individual
- Industrial product
- Informed consent
- Inmate
- Instant bingo
- Institution
- Institution of higher education
- Institutional security personnel
- Instrument
- Insurer
- Intake
- Intellectual disability
- Intellectual property
- Intentionally view
- Intercept
- Internet identifier
- Interstate Commission
- Intervenor
- Intimidation
- Invasive body search
- Investigative agency
- Investigative or law enforcement officer
- Invitee
- Involuntary examination
- Issuer
- Item
J
K
L
- Labor
- Laboratory
- Lacks capacity to consent
- Law enforcement agency
- Law enforcement explorer
- Law enforcement officer
- Lease-purchase agreement
- Legal custody
- Legal custody or guardian
- Legal process
- Legal status
- Lewd or lascivious image
- Lewdness
- Licensed child-caring agency
- Licensed health care professional
- Likelihood of serious harm
- Likely to injure oneself
- Likely to injure others
- Line of authority
- Linear asset
- Listed chemical
- Litter
- Livestock
- Living fetus
- Local governmental entity
- Local subdivisions
M
- Machine gun
- Mail depository
- Maintain
- Major component part
- Maliciously
- Manufacture
- Manufacturer
- Manufacturer of an industrial product
- Masochism
- Mass transit vehicle
- Material matter
- Material support or resources
- Mediation
- Medical care
- Medical intervention
- Member
- Memorial
- Mental health probation
- Mental health treatment facility
- Mental illness
- Mental injury
- Mentally defective
- Mentally incapacitated
- Merchandise
- Merchant
- Migrant vessel
- Military-type training
- Minor
- Misleading
- Misleading conduct
- Missing adult
- Missing child
- Missing endangered person
- Missing endangered person report
- Mixture
- Mobile identification number
- Monetary instruments
- Mother-infant program
- Motor vehicle
- Multipurpose device
- Multiuse ticket
- Municipal detention facility
- Municipal prisoner
N
- Natural disaster
- Necessary medical treatment
- Needs assessment
- Neglect
- Neglect of a child
- Neglect of an elderly person or disabled adult
- Net proceeds
- Next of kin
- Nitrogen-heterocyclic analog
- Noncompacting state
- Nondeadly force
- Nonfunctional airbag
- Nonfunctional catalytic converter
- Nonsecured release
- Notable violation
- Nude
- Nude body parts
- Nudity
- Nuisance
O
- Oath
- Objects
- Obscene
- Obtain
- Obtain or use
- Obtains or uses
- Offender
- Office
- Officer
- Official documentation
- Official investigation
- Official proceeding
- Official rating
- Official record
- Ombudsman
- Open container
- Open house party
- Operator
- Optical disc
- Oral communication
- Ordinance
- Ordinary medical care
- Organization
- Organizational unit
- Organizations
- Organized neighborhood crime watch program activity
- Out-of-pocket loss
- Out-of-state releasee
- Overdose or serious bodily injury
- Owner
P
- Paramedic
- Parcel number
- Parent
- Park
- Parking lot
- Part-time correctional officer
- Part-time correctional probation officer
- Part-time law enforcement officer
- Partially born
- Participating agency
- Patient
- Pattern of racketeering activity
- Payment card
- Pen register
- Penny-ante game
- Performance
- Performing person or group
- Perishable agricultural food product
- Permanent residence
- Person entitled to notice
- Personal identification information
- Petitioner
- Pharmacist
- Pharmacy
- Physical force
- Physically helpless
- Physically incapacitated
- Physically secure shelter
- Placement
- Plant pest
- Playground
- Police canine
- Position of authority or trust
- Positional isomer
- Possess
- Possession
- Postal service
- Postpartum recovery
- Potential for abuse
- Practitioner
- Pregnant prisoner
- Prejudicial error
- Preliminary screening
- Prescriber
- Prescription
- Preserved
- Presumptive parole release date
- Pretrial release program
- Pretrial release violation flag
- Prevention
- Preventive services
- Primary offense
- Prior incarceration within the state
- Prior record
- Prison releasee reoffender
- Prison releasee reoffender flag
- Prisoner
- Private criminal justice training school
- Private vendor
- Privately exposing the body
- Probation
- Probation or parole
- Producer
- Professional license
- Program
- Program component
- Program group
- Program manager
- Prohibited areas
- Project
- Projectile
- Promote
- Promptly proceed
- Property loss
- Property paid for in whole or in part by the Medicaid program
- Proprietary confidential business information
- Prostitution
- Protected computer
- Protective Action Response policy
- Protest activities
- Provisional release date
- Proxy
- Proxy review team
- Psychiatrist
- Psychological professional
- Public contractor
- Public criminal justice training school
- Public officer or employee
- Public place
- Public servant
- Public transit employees or agents
- Public utility
- Purchase
Q
R
- Rack
- Racketeering activity
- Railroad special officer
- Rake
- Rape crisis center
- Readily accessible for immediate use
- Readily accessible to the general public
- Real or personal property
- Real property
- Reasonable expectation of privacy
- Receiving facility
- Receiving state
- Receptacle
- Reception center
- Recipient
- Recklessly
- Record
- Recording person or group
- Reduced custody housing area
- Reencoder
- Region
- Register
- Registered secondary metals recycler
- Registrant
- Regular contact
- Relative
- Remain
- Remote computing service
- Removal
- Repeat violence
- Reproductive material
- Research or statistical project
- Residence
- Respite
- Respondent
- Restrain
- Restraint
- Restraints
- Restricted area
- Restrictive housing
- Restrictiveness level
- Retail theft
- Retail value
- Retailer
- Retaliation
- Retired police dog
- Reunification services
- Revoked credit card
- RICO lien notice
- Risk assessment
- Risk protection order
- Road
- Robbery
- Robbery by sudden snatching
- Rule
- Rules
S
- Sadism
- Sadomasochistic abuse
- Safety plan
- Salvage motor vehicle dealer
- Sanctuary policy
- SAR canine
- Scanning device
- Scheme to defraud
- School bus
- Sealing of a criminal history record
- Seasonal retailer
- Seclusion
- Secure detention
- Secure detention center or facility
- Secured release
- Securely encased
- Self-defense chemical spray
- Self-murder
- Semiautomatic firearm
- Sending state
- Sentence
- Separation from employment or appointment
- Serious bodily injury
- Serious felony offense
- Serious personal injury
- Serious violation
- Service
- Services
- Session
- Sex
- Sexual abuse
- Sexual abuse of a child
- Sexual activity
- Sexual battery
- Sexual battery counselor
- Sexual bestiality
- Sexual conduct
- Sexual excitement
- Sexual exploitation
- Sexual misconduct
- Sexual offender
- Sexual offender flag
- Sexual performance
- Sexual violence
- Sexually cyberharass
- Sexually explicit image
- Sexually explicit performance
- Sexually oriented material
- Shelter
- Ship
- Short-barreled rifle
- Short-barreled shotgun
- Simulated
- Simulated self-murder
- Sinkhole
- Skimming device
- Slaughter
- Slaughterer
- Slungshot
- Social Internet communication
- Social media platform
- Social service professional
- Sparkler
- Special Cabaret
- Special operations forces
- Specific sexual activities
- Specified misdemeanor offense
- Specified unlawful activity
- Speleogen
- Speleothem
- State Archaeologist
- State correctional facility
- State correctional institution
- State correctional system
- State council
- State entity
- State of undress
- Statewide nonprofit association
- Sterile area
- Stolen property
- Structure
- Student
- Subpoena
- Substance abuse
- Substantial factor
- Subversive organization
- Subversive person
- Suction or sharp curettage abortion
- Summons
- Supervised release detention
- Supervisory official
- Support personnel
- Surveillance
- Surviving family members of an emergency responder
T
- Tableting machine
- Taken into custody
- Target offender
- Taser
- Telecommunications company
- Telephone caller identification system
- Temporary legal custody
- Temporary release
- Temporary residence
- Tentative release date
- Terrorism
- Terrorist organization
- Theme park complex
- Three-time violent felony offender
- Three-time violent felony offender flag
- Tobacco products
- Total shared detention costs
- Tournament
- Toxin
- Tracking application
- Tracking device
- Trade secret
- Traffic
- Trained volunteer
- Training
- Training center director
- Transaction
- Transaction control number
- Transient residence
- Transit agency
- Transit fare evasion
- Transition-to-adulthood services
- Transitional mental health care
- Transmit
- Transnational crime organization
- Trap and trace device
- Trauma-informed care
- Treatment
- Trespass
- Truancy petition
- Truant status offender
- Trustee
U
V
- Value of merchandise
- Vector
- Vehicle
- Vehicles owned
- Venture
- Vessel homicide
- Veterinarian
- Veterinary care
- Victim injury
- Victim of human trafficking
- Victim or witness at risk of harm
- Video movie
- Violence
- Violent career criminal
- Violent career criminal flag
- Virtual currency
- Visitor
- Visual depiction
- Voluntary family services
- Volunteer
- Vulnerable adult
- Vulnerable road user