Indiana legal term
fraud in Indiana Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Indiana legislative session
In Indiana criminal law, “fraud” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Indiana criminal code.
What does “fraud” mean in Indiana criminal law?
"fraud" means but is not limited to a person: (1) causing or threatening to cause physical harm to a human trafficking victim; (2) physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain a human trafficking victim; (3) abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process to further the act of human trafficking; (4) knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating, or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document of the human trafficking victim; (5) using blackmail or threatening to (Ind. Code § 35-42-3.5-0.5)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Kidnapping
- Fraud
- Identity deception
- Misuse of licenses and permits; use of false information; inauthentic licenses and permits
- Offenses relating to registration labeling and prescription forms
- Insurance fraud
- Notary fraud; notarial fraud
- Promotion of human labor trafficking
- Promotion of human sexual trafficking
Related terms in the same statutes
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