Street racers aren’t criminals. To me, being a criminal means intentionally hurting people, scamming, stealing, or exploiting others. Street racing is illegal, sure, but most people do it as a hobby because they love cars and racing and just becuase you break the law doesn’t make you a “criminal”. I hate how games like Need For Speed always paint racers as villains when the reality is way less black-and-white.
It’s not a crime, it’s an offence. It’s only a crime when you crashed into someone, injuring or killing them, but it remained an offence for driving dangerously, and it’s illegal. To a lesser extent, it’s a public nuisance.
Do you have a reference to the particular definition you’re using?
All my searching indicates “offense” is either synonymous with “crime” or at the very least a subcategory of “crime”. I couldn’t find anything suggesting that an “offense” was not also a “crime”.
Huh. I swear i read somewhere that define crime as in something like assault or murder or battery or robbery, something that cause harm to others, while offence is when you break the law. Like while littering or parking somewhere you shouldn’t might be a punishable offence according to the law, it isn’t a crime per se.