{ "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", "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-05T14:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:11:18+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "revisions": [ { "at": "2026-10-06T22:59:48+00:00", "engine": "codex", "fields": [ "definition", "distinguishing_features", "owners", "visual_identification" ], "answering_review": "cbe9453563900a66e14a0e24bb1b6f226ed5aae9be9a5b6953e480760f52559e" } ], "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-07T10:10:33+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "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 satisfies the legal requirements of an offence punishable by the state in the applicable jurisdiction, whether or not it has been adjudicated or resulted in a conviction.", "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": [ "A crime is defined by a jurisdiction, so the same act may be a crime in one place and not in another, and its status can change over time.", "An act can constitute a crime without adjudication, while a person's criminal responsibility is determined through legal process.", "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": [ "Observation alone may not establish every legal element of a crime, although an observed act can constitute a crime before adjudication.", "What can be observed is an act, an injury, a scene or a person - each of which is a different thing to record.", "Records should distinguish observed facts and suspected offences from adjudicated findings." ], "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": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe the legal definition of an offence in a stated jurisdiction, citing the law.", "Report factual events to the competent authority when required." ], "must_not": [ "Label a person as a criminal unless a court has convicted them.", "Assist in planning or committing any offence.", "Publish accusations, records or personal details of suspects or victims beyond what the law permits.", "Treat the law of one jurisdiction as applying in another." ], "requires_human": [ "Deciding to report a suspected crime involving identifiable people.", "Any use of criminal records in decisions about a person." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "The presumption of innocence protects people from accusation by suspicion.", "Victims need protection from exposure; offenders retain rights, including rehabilitation." ], "affected_parties": [ "Victims", "Suspects and accused people", "Witnesses and communities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The state: legislatures define crimes, courts adjudicate criminal responsibility, and police and prosecutors investigate and prosecute alleged offences.", "master_systems": [ "Court records document adjudicated cases.", "Criminal records registers record criminal justice outcomes." ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q83267: crime", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83267", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Crime", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "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 } }