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Misconduct vs Crime - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between misconduct and crime

is that misconduct is bad behavior while crime is a specific act committed in violation of the law.

As verbs the difference between misconduct and crime

is that misconduct is to mismanage while crime is to commit crime(s).

misconduct

English

Etymology 1

From (mis-) + (conduct) (noun)

Noun

(wikipedia misconduct) (en-noun)
  • Bad behavior.
    • The student was threatened with a £2000 fine and banned from using the university's computing resources for two weeks due to gross misconduct on the Internet.

    Etymology 2

    From (mis-) + (conduct) (verb)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mismanage.
  • # (reflexive) To misbehave.
  • He misconducted himself with a chorus girl, according to his wife.
  • (rare) To act improperly.

    • crime

    English

    (wikipedia crime)

    Noun

  • (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
  • (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
    • Crime doesn’t pay.
  • (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
  • Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
  • (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
  • * Spenser
    • the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

    Synonyms

    * (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminality

    Hyponyms

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    Derived terms

    * crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crime

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To commit (s).
  • * 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
    • If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

    See also

    * offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----