A group of armed and dangerous teenagers are returning home late at night and come across several seemingly unoccupied homes. They enter one home and before taking numerous valuable, spray paint racial slurs on the walls. The suspects would most accurately be classified as .

Criminal

Explanation:

A person who commits a crime is ordinarily a criminal before the law as the word could be generally and broadly applied. A crime could be defined as any act harmful to some persons or a community. Normally a country has its criminal law or criminal code which defines crime and what constitutes a criminal offense. While some crimes may not necessarily be "crime" as to be treated as a criminal act and will generally be a civil case, in the case above, the suspects have committed a crime and under most state laws(criminal law) would be deemed to have committed a criminal act.

Question Options:

a) Criminal

b) Anarchist

c) Terrorist

d) lone-wolf avenger.

The suspects would most accurately be classified as a CRIMINAL.

A Criminal can be said to be an individual who is guilty of an act commited in violation of the law. Also known as lawbreaker, offender, perpetrator etc.

The act commited by a criminal is known as a crime and some examples of crimes are, assault, battery, robbery, vandalism etc.

With this definition and explanation above, we can categorically conclude that the armed and dangerous teenagers are CRIMINALS.