N.D. Cent. Code § 12.1-38-01
12.1-38-01. Definitions
12.1-38-01. Definitions
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.