North Dakota Code § 12.1-38-01

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As 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.

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