#criminal__felon__crook__outlaw__malefactor someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
supertype: wrongdoer__offender a person who transgresses moral or civil law
instance: William_H._Bonney Jesse_James Robert_MacGregor
subtype: accessory__accessary someone who helps another person commit a crime
subtype: abettor__abetter one who helps or encourages or incites another
subtype: accessory_after_the_fact__accessoryafterthefact a person who gives assistance or comfort to someone known to be a felon or known to be sought in connection with the commission of a felony
subtype: accessory_before_the_fact a person who procures or advises or commands the commission of a felony but who is not present at its perpetration
subtype: accessory_during_the_fact a person who witnesses a crime but does not try to prevent it
subtype: confederate__collaborator__henchman__partner_in_crime someone who assists in a plot
subtype: arsonist__incendiary__firebug a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
subtype: barnburner someone who burns down a barn
subtype: blackmailer__extortioner__extortionist a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them
subtype: bootlegger__moonshiner someone who makes or sells illegal liquor
subtype: briber__suborner someone who pays (or otherwise incites) you to commit a wrongful act
subtype: conspirator__plotter a member of a conspiracy
instance: Guy_Fawkes__Fawkes Titus_Oates__Oates
subtype: desperado__desperate_criminal__desperatecriminal a bold outlaw (especially on the American frontier)
subtype: fugitive_from_justice__fugitive someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice
subtype: absconder someone who runs away and hides to avoid arrest or prosecution
subtype: escapee someone who escapes
subtype: gangster__mobster a criminal who is a member of gang
subtype: apache a Parisian gangster
subtype: yardie member of an international gang of Jamaican criminals who sell drugs and violence; "A much publicized raid on a yardie stronghold had first been simulated at Riot City"
instance: Alphonse_Capone__Capone__Al_Capone__Scarface
subtype: highbinder a corrupt politician
subtype: highjacker__hijacker someone who uses force to take over a vehicle (especially an airplane) in order to reach an alternative destination
subtype: hoodlum__hood__goon__punk__thug__tough__toughie__strong-armer an aggressive and violent young criminal
subtype: kidnapper__abductor__snatcher someone who unlawfully seizes and detains a victim (usually for ransom)
subtype: crimper someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers
subtype: shanghaier__seizer a kidnapper who drugs men and takes them for compulsory service aboard a ship
subtype: gangster's_moll__moll__gun_moll__gunmoll the girl friend of a gangster
subtype: murderer__liquidator__manslayer a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
subtype: assassin__assassinator__bravo a murderer (especially one who kills a prominent political figure) who kills by a treacherous surprise attack and often is hired to do the deed; "his assassins were hunted down like animals"; "assassinators of kings and emperors"
instance: John_Wilkes_Booth__Booth Lee_Harvey_Oswald__Oswald
subtype: butcher a brutal indiscriminate murderer
subtype: cutthroat someone who murders by cutting the victim's throat
subtype: fratricide.murderer a person who murders their brother or sister
subtype: gunslinger__gunman__hired_gun__hiredgun__gun__triggerman__hit_man__hitman__torpedo__shooter a professional killer who uses a gun
subtype: hatchet_man__hatchetman__iceman a professional killer
subtype: infanticide.murderer a person who murders an infant
subtype: murderess__murderes a woman murderer
subtype: parricide.murderer someone who kills his or her parent
subtype: matricide.parricide a person who murders their mother
subtype: patricide.parricide a person who murders their father
subtype: ripper a murderer who slashes the victims with a knife; "Jack the ripper was probably a madman"
subtype: serial_killer__serial_murderer someone who murders more than three victims one at a time in a relatively short interval
instance: Jack_the_Ripper
subtype: parolee__probationer someone released on probation or on parole
subtype: drug_peddler__pusher__peddler__drug_dealer__drug_trafficker an unlicensed dealer in illegal drugs
subtype: racketeer some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
subtype: bagman a racketeer assigned to collect or distribute payoff money
subtype: raper__rapist someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
subtype: recidivist__repeater__habitual_criminal someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior)
subtype: scofflaw one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
subtype: smuggler__runner__contrabandist__mooncurser someone who imports or exports without paying duties
subtype: gunrunner__arms-runner a smuggler of guns
subtype: rumrunner someone who illegally smuggles liquor across a border
subtype: thief__stealer a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
subtype: bandit__brigand an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band
subtype: shoplifter__booster__lifter a thief who steals goods that are on display in a store
subtype: burglar a thief who enters a building with intent to steal
subtype: housebreaker__cat_burglar a burglar who unlawfully breaks into and enters another person's house
subtype: dacoit__dakoit (in India and Burma) a member of an armed gang of robbers
subtype: embezzler__peculator__defalcator someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use
subtype: body_snatcher__graverobber__ghoul someone who takes bodies from graves and sells them for anatomical dissection
subtype: graverobber someone who steals valuables from graves or crypts
subtype: holdup_man__stickup_man__stickupman an armed thief
subtype: highwayman__highjacker__hijacker__road_agent a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it
subtype: footpad__padder a highwayman who robs on foot
instance: Dick_Turpin__Turpin
subtype: larcenist__larcener a person who commits larceny
subtype: pickpocket__cutpurse__dip a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
subtype: plagiarist__plagiarizer__literarypirate__pirate someone who uses another person's words or ideas is they were his own
subtype: plunderer__pillager__looter__spoiler__raider__freebooter someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
subtype: pirate__buccaneer__sea_robber__searobber__sea_rover__searover someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation
subtype: Barbary_pirate__corsair a pirate along the Barbary coast
instance: Khayr_ad-Din__Barbarossa
subtype: sea_king__seaking a Viking pirate chief
instance: Jean_Laffite__Laffite__Lafitte__Jean_Lafitte Sir_Henry_Morgan__Morgan__Henry_Morgan Bartholomew_Roberts__Roberts Edward_Teach__Teach__Thatch__Edward_Thatch__Blackbeard
subtype: robber a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence
subtype: bank_robber a robber of banks
subtype: mugger a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)
subtype: rustler__cattle_thief someone who steals livestock (especially cattle)
subtype: safebreaker__safecracker__cracksman a thief who breaks open safes to steal valuable contents
subtype: snatcher a thief who grabs and runs; "a purse snatcher"
subtype: sneak_thief__pilferer__snitcher a thief who steals without using violence
subtype: wharf_rat.sneak_thief__wharfrat someone who lives near wharves and lives by pilfering from ships or warehouses
subtype: traitor__treasonist someone who betrays his country by committing treason
subtype: collaborator__collaborationist__quisling someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
subtype: fifth_columnist__fifthcolumnist__saboteur a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
subtype: traitress__traitres female traitor
instance: Benedict_Arnold__Arnold
subtype: violator__lawbreaker someone who violates the law
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