At 09:58 04-11-2002 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
Putting graffiti on a wall is probably "only" a misdemeanour here as well. You are not sent to prison for it, but will be usually be sentenced to a number of hours of community service -- and it the case of graffiti "artists", that usually means *removing* graffiti from walls. <GRIN>Is putting graffiti on a wall a felony there, then? I think that that would probably fall under the category of "misdemeanor" here. Misdemeanors don't affect your ability to vote, and probably don't affect your ability to hold most jobs. A felony is a more serious crime.
But anyway, I only used that example to point out that relatively small acts of wrongdoing usually do not have any really serious consequences later in life.
We do; the classification is pretty much similar to the classification in the US, although there might be a few differences wrt whether a specific act is considered a misdemeanour or a crime, or even a form of criminal behaviour at all.Do you have any classification distinction between sorts of crimes like that, or not? Just curious.
Jeroen "Justice for all" van Baardwijk
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