What is Property damage?
'''Property damage''' is destruction to private or public property caused either by person(s) or natural phenomena, such as [[severe weather]] or [[tropical cyclone]]s.<ref>Les Dlabay; James Burrow, ''Intro to Business'' (Mason, OH: South-Western Cengage Learning, 2009), pp. 516–18</ref> One form of property damage is called [[vandalism]].<ref name=Tibbetts179>Stephen G. Tibbetts; Craig Hemmens, ''Criminological Theory: A Text/Reader'' (Los Angeles: SAGE, 2010), p. 179</ref> The term ''vandalism'', however, is often used to mean superficial or mild damage to property.<ref name=Tibbetts179/> == References == {{reflist}} [[Category:Property]] [[Category:Crime]] {{stub}}