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[CITE: 18USC16]

 
                 TITLE 18--CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
 
                             PART I--CRIMES
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 16. Crime of violence defined

    The term ``crime of violence'' means--
        (a) 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
        (b) 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.

(Added Pub. L. 98-473, title II, Sec. 1001(a), Oct. 12, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2136.)

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 931, 1956, 3181, 3663A of 
this title; title 2 sections 1961, 1967; title 8 sections 1101, 1227; 
title 20 sections 1232g, 6736; title 21 section 841; title 22 sections 
2728, 4304b; title 42 sections 1437f, 3796ll-3, 13981, 14135a, 14503.