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    "model": {
        "rank": 1226,
        "code": "thing-q83267",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.crime",
        "name": "crime",
        "purpose": "Let an agent keep the alleged act, the case and the conviction apart, and never treat a suspicion, a charge or a record as the same thing.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Activities and processes",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "ACT",
        "domain": "ACT.ACT",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
        "url": "/models/thing/q83267/",
        "tier": 2,
        "score": 166,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "clairvoyant",
                "aiding and abetting",
                "abandoned pet",
                "11 kitties",
                "Dacoity",
                "alternative therapist",
                "wairo monaka",
                "Nazi dental gold",
                "Tokuryū",
                "Criminal association",
                "racketeering",
                "numbers game",
                "a crime against a Democratic State Regime",
                "kickback conspiracy",
                "conspiracy to commit a crime",
                "civil conspiracy",
                "conspiracy to commit access device fraud",
                "Black Hand",
                "political agitation",
                "conspiracy to commit espionage",
                "conspiracy to import five or more kilograms of cocaine",
                "mafia conspiracy",
                "criminal association in French criminal law",
                "conspiracy to murder",
                "conspiracy to commit money laundering",
                "conspiracy to defraud the United States",
                "conspiracy to retaliate against a witness, victim or an informant",
                "membership in a terrorist organisation",
                "torture",
                "torment",
                "Cheera",
                "Torture in Francoist Spain",
                "torture in Egypt",
                "crime against humanity of torture",
                "war crime of torture",
                "implied torture",
                "Water torture",
                "strappado (torture)",
                "Torture in Brazil",
                "Torture by proxy"
            ],
            "aliasCount": 1093,
            "merged": 1105,
            "knownIn": 166,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.crime-act",
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q83267",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83267",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-10T20:01:32Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 1,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q83267",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.crime",
                "name": "crime",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "ACT.ACT"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q83267/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.crime",
                "name": "crime",
                "purpose": "Let an agent keep the alleged act, the case and the conviction apart, and never treat a suspicion, a charge or a record as the same thing.",
                "definition": "An act or omission that a jurisdiction has defined as punishable by the state, established as such only by a legal process and not by the act alone.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not for anything. It is a category the state applies to conduct, and the model exists so that an agent handles allegations without assuming guilt.",
                "affordances": [
                    "record an allegation, which is not a finding",
                    "investigate, charge and try it, which are separate stages with separate standards",
                    "convict or acquit, which is what settles it and only for that charge",
                    "spend or expunge a record, after which it may not be used",
                    "get it wrong, which is why every stage has its own evidential bar"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Defined by a jurisdiction, so the same act is a crime in one place and not in another, and changes over time",
                    "Established by process: an act becomes a crime in law only when a court says so",
                    "The act, the allegation, the charge, the case and the conviction are five different things",
                    "A civil wrong may look identical and be handled entirely differently"
                ],
                "appearance": "Nothing to see. What is observed is conduct, and whether that conduct is a crime is a conclusion of law reached later, by someone else.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "There is no visual identification of a crime, and treating an observation as one is the central error this model exists to prevent",
                    "What can be observed is an act, an injury, a scene or a person - each of which is a different thing to record",
                    "Recording an observation as a crime prejudges exactly what the process is meant to decide"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "by seriousness: summary, indictable, and the local equivalents",
                    "by subject: against the person, against property, against the state, regulatory",
                    "by stage: reported, under investigation, charged, tried, convicted, appealed",
                    "by record status: current, spent, expunged, sealed"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is confused with",
                        "target": "the act itself",
                        "why": "the act is observable; the crime is a legal conclusion about it"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is confused with",
                        "target": "civil wrong",
                        "why": "the same conduct may be both, or only one, with different standards and consequences"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "produces",
                        "target": "criminal record",
                        "why": "the record is a separate object with its own lifetime and access rules"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is defined by",
                        "target": "criminal law of a jurisdiction",
                        "why": "there is no crime outside a definition"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "involves",
                        "target": "person",
                        "why": "suspects, victims and witnesses are roles with different protections"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "offence code",
                        "value_or_pattern": "jurisdiction-specific",
                        "note": "names the offence category, not an event"
                    },
                    {
                        "scheme": "case or crime reference",
                        "value_or_pattern": "agency-specific",
                        "note": "identifies the proceeding, which is what actually moves through stages"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "The criminal law of the jurisdiction, which is the only thing that makes conduct an offence",
                    "Rules of evidence and procedure, which decide what may be relied on at each stage",
                    "Rehabilitation and expungement rules, which decide when a record may no longer be used",
                    "Data protection rules for criminal offence data, which are stricter than for ordinary personal data"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Treating an allegation as a finding, which is the central harm this model guards against",
                    "Carrying spent or expunged records forward, which is unlawful and hard to undo",
                    "Applying one jurisdiction definition in another",
                    "Conflating suspect, defendant and offender, which are three different statuses with different rights"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "definition-and-jurisdiction",
                        "name": "Definition and jurisdiction",
                        "description": "What makes this conduct an offence, and where.",
                        "rationale": "There is no such thing as a crime in general: without a jurisdiction and a definition there is only conduct.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "offence-definition",
                                "name": "Offence definition",
                                "description": "The elements that must be proved.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "offence-definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Elements of the offence",
                                        "description": "What must be established for conduct to fall under it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which elements define this offence, under which statute and jurisdiction?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What conduct falls outside it that a lay reader would assume falls inside?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "jurisdictional-variation",
                                "name": "Jurisdictional variation",
                                "description": "How the definition differs elsewhere.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "jurisdictional-variation-finding",
                                        "name": "Variation across jurisdictions",
                                        "description": "Where the same conduct is treated differently.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How does this offence differ between the jurisdictions in scope?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What must an agent verify before applying a definition across a border?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "stage-and-status",
                        "name": "Stage and status",
                        "description": "Where a matter has got to, and what may be said about it.",
                        "rationale": "Every stage has its own evidential standard and its own permitted language, and collapsing them is how an agent defames someone.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "stages",
                                "name": "Stages of the process",
                                "description": "Report, investigation, charge, trial, outcome.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-finding",
                                        "name": "Current stage",
                                        "description": "Which stage a matter has reached and what that permits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What stage has this matter reached, and on whose record?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What may and may not be asserted publicly at this stage?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "status-of-persons",
                                "name": "Status of the people involved",
                                "description": "Suspect, defendant, offender, victim, witness.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "status-of-persons-finding",
                                        "name": "Roles and their protections",
                                        "description": "Which role each person holds and what protection follows.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What status does each person hold in this matter?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which protections attach to that status, and what must an agent not do?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "evidence-and-proof",
                        "name": "Evidence and proof",
                        "description": "What is relied on and to what standard.",
                        "rationale": "The whole difference between an allegation and a finding is the evidence and the standard applied to it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "evidence",
                                "name": "Evidence held",
                                "description": "What exists, where it came from, and its integrity.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evidence-finding",
                                        "name": "Evidence and its chain",
                                        "description": "The material relied on and how it was obtained.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence exists in this matter, obtained how, and is its chain intact?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What evidence is inadmissible, and why?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "standard",
                                "name": "Standard of proof",
                                "description": "What must be shown at this stage.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "standard-finding",
                                        "name": "Applicable standard",
                                        "description": "The bar for the current stage and who must meet it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What standard of proof applies at this stage, and who bears the burden?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What must an agent refuse to conclude on the evidence available?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "record-and-consequence",
                        "name": "Record and consequence",
                        "description": "What is kept afterwards and what it may be used for.",
                        "rationale": "The record outlives the case and does more damage than the case did, so its rules matter more to an agent than the offence does.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "record",
                                "name": "The record",
                                "description": "What is recorded, by whom, for how long.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "record-finding",
                                        "name": "Record and retention",
                                        "description": "The record created and how long it may be held.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What record does this outcome create, held by whom and for how long?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "When does it become spent or expungeable, and what changes then?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "use",
                                "name": "Permitted use",
                                "description": "Who may see it and for what decisions.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "use-finding",
                                        "name": "Permitted uses of the record",
                                        "description": "What the record may lawfully influence.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "For which decisions may this record lawfully be used, and by whom?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What must an agent refuse to disclose or take into account?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the registry model the offence category, the alleged event and the case as three linked things?",
                "How should an agent represent an allegation so that its status can never be silently upgraded?",
                "What retention and access rules should the model carry so downstream systems inherit them rather than inventing their own?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "abstract concept",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a crime, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent keep the alleged act, the case and the conviction apart, and never treat a suspicion, a charge or a record as the same thing.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "activity",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: clairvoyant, aiding and abetting, abandoned pet, 11 kitties, Dacoity, alternative therapist, wairo monaka, Nazi dental gold, Tokuryū, Criminal association, racketeering, numbers game.",
                "1105 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 166 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a crime, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
            ],
            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "clairvoyant",
                        "aiding and abetting",
                        "abandoned pet",
                        "11 kitties",
                        "Dacoity",
                        "alternative therapist",
                        "wairo monaka",
                        "Nazi dental gold",
                        "Tokuryū",
                        "Criminal association",
                        "racketeering",
                        "numbers game"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 166 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1105 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one crime from another, and a crime from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "naming-and-identifiers",
                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
                                "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases",
                                        "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names",
                                        "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "stable-identifiers",
                                        "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys",
                                        "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "classification-and-granularity",
                                "name": "Classification and granularity",
                                "description": "Where a crime sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kind-and-parents",
                                        "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds",
                                        "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "id": "distinguishing-features",
                                        "name": "Distinguishing features",
                                        "description": "What separates a crime from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "state-and-lifecycle",
                        "name": "State and lifecycle",
                        "description": "The states a crime passes through and the events that move it between them.",
                        "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "lifecycle-stages",
                                "name": "Lifecycle stages",
                                "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "stages-and-transitions",
                                        "name": "Stages and transitions",
                                        "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a crime between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "observations-and-status",
                                "name": "Observations and current status",
                                "description": "What is observed about a crime, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a crime is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "process-and-outcome",
                        "name": "Process, inputs and outcome",
                        "description": "How a crime proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.",
                        "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "steps-and-sequence",
                                "name": "Steps and sequence",
                                "description": "The steps of a crime, their order and what may run in parallel.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "steps-and-preconditions",
                                        "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion",
                                        "description": "What has to be true before each step of a crime and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "inputs-and-results",
                                "name": "Inputs, resources and results",
                                "description": "What a crime consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a crime takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "definitions-in-contest",
                        "name": "Definitions and who holds them",
                        "description": "What crime is taken to mean, and by whom.",
                        "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competing-definitions",
                                "name": "Competing definitions",
                                "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-map",
                                        "name": "Definitions and their holders",
                                        "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which definitions of crime are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "operationalisation",
                                "name": "Operationalisation",
                                "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "operational-record",
                                        "name": "Measures and proxies",
                                        "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q01",
                                                "text": "How is crime operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "instances-and-use",
                        "name": "Instances, use and consequence",
                        "description": "What counts as an instance of crime and what follows from calling something that.",
                        "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "instances",
                                "name": "What counts as an instance",
                                "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "instance-tests",
                                        "name": "Tests for an instance",
                                        "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q01",
                                                "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of crime?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q02",
                                                "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "consequence",
                                "name": "Consequence of application",
                                "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "consequence-record",
                                        "name": "What the label licenses",
                                        "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as crime?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a crime came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a crime and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a crime is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a crime, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a crime, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a crime is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}