Vandalism
![A glass cage with a draisine at a private railway history museum in Münster-Gremmendorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany](/Images/godic/202412/21/Vandalised_glass_cage3948.jpg")
![The Vandals sacking Rome](/Images/godic/202412/21/Genseric_sacking_Rome_4553948.jpg")
![Fireworks vandalism of a bus stop in Rotterdam](/Images/godic/202412/21/Vandalisme_bushalte_Rotterdam3948.jpg")
![An example of vandalism on a street sign](/Images/godic/202412/21/Lead_Photo_For_Swimming_pool_sanitation0-463535214075818663948.jpg")
Vandalism is "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property".
The term includes criminal damage such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner. The term finds its roots in an Enlightenment view that the Germanic Vandals were a uniquely destructive people.