{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/s16","title_num":"18","num":"§ 16.","heading":"Crime of violence defined","status":null,"guid":"idbb391950-4aa6-11eb-bce4-d6beeb6aa2d0","source_credit":"(Added Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1001(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 2136.)","seq_in_title":15,"parent_identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch1","ancestors":[{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18","level":"title","num":"Title 18—","heading":"CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI","level":"part","num":"PART I—","heading":"CRIMES","status":null,"is_section":false},{"identifier":"/us/usc/t18/ptI/ch1","level":"chapter","num":"CHAPTER 1—","heading":"GENERAL PROVISIONS","status":null,"is_section":false}],"xml":"<section xmlns=\"http://xml.house.gov/schemas/uslm/1.0\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:dc=\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\" xmlns:dcterms=\"http://purl.org/dc/terms/\" style=\"-uslm-lc:I80\" id=\"id7436a1a4-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s16\"><num value=\"16\">§ 16.</num><heading> Crime of violence defined</heading>\n<chapeau style=\"-uslm-lc:I11\" class=\"indent0\">The term “crime of violence” means—</chapeau><subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7436a1a5-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s16/a\"><num value=\"a\">(a)</num><content> an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or prop­erty of another, or</content>\n</subsection>\n<subsection style=\"-uslm-lc:I12\" class=\"indent1\" id=\"id7436a1a6-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\" identifier=\"/us/usc/t18/s16/b\"><num value=\"b\">(b)</num><content> any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.</content>\n</subsection>\n<sourceCredit id=\"id7436a1a7-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">(Added <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/473/tII/s1001/a\">Pub. L. 98–473, title II, § 1001(a)</ref>, <date date=\"1984-10-12\">Oct. 12, 1984</date>, <ref href=\"/us/stat/98/2136\">98 Stat. 2136</ref>.)</sourceCredit>\n<notes type=\"uscNote\" id=\"id7436a1a8-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\">\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" role=\"crossHeading\" topic=\"editorialNotes\" id=\"id7436a1a9-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered\"><b>Editorial Notes</b></heading></note>\n<note style=\"-uslm-lc:I74\" topic=\"constitutionality\" id=\"id7436a1aa-3b28-11eb-ad8c-9fba61cd9daf\"><heading class=\"centered smallCaps\">Constitutionality</heading><p>For information regarding constitutionality of this section, as added by <ref href=\"/us/pl/98/473/s1001/a\">section 1001(a) of Pub. L. 98–473</ref>, see Government Publishing Office, The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation, Acts of Congress Held Unconstitutional in Whole or in Part by the Supreme Court of the United States, 2018 Supplement, prepared by the Congressional Research Service.</p>\n</note>\n</notes>\n</section>","provision":null,"duplicates":[],"release":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"served_from":{"label":"116-252","currency_date":"2020-12-22","congress":116,"law_num":252,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":222,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["18","20","31","34","40","42"],"ingested_titles":[]},"content_first_seen":{"label":"116-214","currency_date":"2020-12-05","congress":116,"law_num":214,"excluded_laws":[],"update_num":null,"seq":218,"is_partial":false,"caveat":null,"titles_affected":["02","09","11a","15","16","18","18a","20","21","22","28a","31","37","38","39","40","41","51","52","54"],"ingested_titles":[]},"is_exact":true,"note":null}