The act of Vandalism from Manav Pietro's blog

This info-graphic titled ‘The act of vandalism’’ provides an overview of crime of Vandalism.

Vandalism is a all-purpose term that may not actually appear in criminal statutes. Rarely, these statutes employ the terms criminal mischievousness, malicious mischief, or malicious trespass as conflicting to vandalism. A group of individuals can be condemned of conspiring or acting concertedly to commit vandalism. By and large, the attempt to commit vandalism is an offense as well, but the penalties for attempted vandalism are not as terrible as the penalties for a completed act. Penalties also depend on the value of the property exterminated or the cost of repairing it.

To obtain a conviction the prosecution must normally prove that the accused damaged or destroyed some property, that the property did not belong to the suspect, and that the accused acted willfully and with maliciousness. In the deficiency of proof of damage, the suspect may be guilty of TRESPASS, but not that of vandalism. If there is no proof that the defendant deliberately damaged the property, the defendant cannot be convicted of the crime but can be held liable for monetary system damages in a civil action. For more information, please refer to the info-graphic below.