Showing you that there are various levels of crime is easy...............
How crimes are classified and punished as felonies, misdemeanors, or infractions.
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Infractions
Infractions (sometimes called violations) are petty offenses that are typically punishable by fines, but not jail time.
Misdemeanors
Misdemeanors are criminal offenses that carry up to a year in jail in most states. (Some states have made the maximum imprisonment for many or all misdemeanors 364 days; that change is designed to avoid deportation consequences that would have been triggered if the misdemeanor in question carried the possibility of, or if the misdemeanor defendant actually received, a full one-year sentence.) Punishment for misdemeanors can also include payment of a fine, probation, community service, and restitution.
Felonies
Felonies are the most serious type of criminal offense. Felonies often involve serious physical harm (or threat of harm) to victims, but they also include offenses like white collar crimes and fraud schemes. Offenses that otherwise are misdemeanors can be elevated to felonies for second-time offenders. A felony conviction, like a misdemeanor conviction, may not result in time behind bars. But felonies carry potential imprisonment that ranges from time in prison (a year is often the low end) to life in prison without parole or even death. As with misdemeanors, states may also subdivide felonies by class or degree.
Also, remember that felonies and misdemeanors have various levels in them.
As far as classification levels? Here ya go..................
Classified, top secret and secret. What do these designations mean for the documents taken from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate?
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TOP SECRET
This refers to national security information that requires the highest level of protection — a designation that should be used “with the utmost restraint,” according to the Code of Federal Regulations. In order to receive a top secret classification, there has to be a reasonable expectation that, if leaked, the information would cause “exceptionally grave damage to the national security,”
SECRET
The second highest classification, a secret designation is applied to information that requires “a substantial degree of protection” and should be used “sparingly,” the code reads.
Information that could be reasonably expected to cause “serious damage” to national security is classified as secret.
CONFIDENTIAL
Information is classified as confidential when its unauthorized release could be reasonably expected to cause “damage to national security.” This information requires protection but not to the same level as secret and top secret information.
And, then there are other levels below Confidential, NOFORN, and FOUO. Like I said, it depends on the level of classification, AS WELL as what the information that was classified contains. Some information that is classified has very little impact on national security, ship's schedules are one of them since most of our allies (and adversaries) generally know where a ship is going most of the time.