Section 12.1-38-01 - DefinitionsAs used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Convicted" includes a finding of guilt, whether or not the adjudication of guilt is stayed or executed, an unwithdrawn judicial admission of guilt or guilty plea, a no contest plea, a judgment of conviction, an adjudication as a delinquent child, or an admission to a juvenile delinquency petition.2. "Course of criminal conduct" includes the acts or omissions of a victim in resisting criminal conduct.3. "Crime" includes an offense named in section 12.1-16-01, 12.1-16-02, 12.1-16-03, 12.1-17-01, 12.1-17-01.1, 12.1-17-01.2, 12.1-17-02, 12.1-17-03, 12.1-17-04, chapter 12.1-18, section 12.1-20-03, 12.1-20-04, 12.1-20-05, 12.1-20-07, chapter 12.1-21, section 12.1-22-01, 12.1-22-02, or 12.1-22-03, or an attempt to commit any of these offenses. The term includes a crime in other states which would have been within this definition if the crime had been committed in this state.4. "Perpetrator" means a person who has engaged in criminal conduct and includes a person convicted of a crime.5. "Victim" means a person who was the object of another's criminal conduct and includes a person at the scene of an emergency who gives reasonable assistance to another person who is exposed to or has suffered grave physical harm.Amended by S.L. 2019 , ch. 107( HB 1393 ), § 7, eff. 8/1/2019.