No, it’s a tort. A crime is a criminal offense. A tort is a civil offense. Both are illegal, meaning against the law, but whether that is civil or criminal law is the distinction.

Read up on what law is actually about sometime.

Here, lemmy help you.

Unless you use the word criminal for people who jaywalk (the same level of ‘crime’ as illegal immigration: a misdemeanor) then you’re being selective about which misdemeanors make you a criminal. Which is suspect.