18 U.S.C. § 4101 : US Code - Section 4101: Definitions

Search 18 U.S.C. § 4101 : US Code - Section 4101: Definitions

As used in this chapter the term -
(a) "double criminality" means that at the time of transfer of
an offender the offense for which he has been sentenced is still
an offense in the transferring country and is also an offense in
the receiving country. With regard to a country which has a
federal form of government, an act shall be deemed to be an
offense in that country if it is an offense under the federal
laws or the laws of any state or province thereof;
(b) "imprisonment" means a penalty imposed by a court under
which the individual is confined to an institution;
(c) "juvenile" means -
(1) a person who is under eighteen years of age; or
(2) for the purpose of proceedings and disposition under
chapter 403 of this title because of an act of juvenile
delinquency, a person who is under twenty-one years of age;
(d) "juvenile delinquency" means -
(1) a violation of the laws of the United States or a State
thereof or of a foreign country committed by a juvenile which
would have been a crime if committed by an adult; or
(2) noncriminal acts committed by a juvenile for which
supervision or treatment by juvenile authorities of the United
States, a State thereof, or of the foreign country concerned is
authorized;
(e) "offender" means a person who has been convicted of an
offense or who has been adjudged to have committed an act of
juvenile delinquency;
(f) "parole" means any form of release of an offender from
imprisonment to the community by a releasing authority prior to
the expiration of his sentence, subject to conditions imposed by
the releasing authority and to its supervision, including a term
of supervised release pursuant to section 3583;
(g) "probation" means any form of a sentence under which the
offender is permitted to remain at liberty under supervision and
subject to conditions for the breach of which a penalty of
imprisonment may be ordered executed;
(h) "sentence" means not only the penalty imposed but also the
judgment of conviction in a criminal case or a judgment of
acquittal in the same proceeding, or the adjudication of
delinquency in a juvenile delinquency proceeding or dismissal of
allegations of delinquency in the same proceedings;
(i) "State" means any State of the United States, the District
of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory
or possession of the United States;
(j) "transfer" means a transfer of an individual for the
purpose of the execution in one country of a sentence imposed by
the courts of another country; and
(k) "treaty" means a treaty under which an offender sentenced
in the courts of one country may be transferred to the country of
which he is a citizen or national for the purpose of serving the
sentence.