Negative misprision is the concealment of treason or felony. She was convicted of misprision of treason. The Act re-enacted some existing procedural rules in prosecutions for treason and misprision of treason. Wise was arrested and tried for misprision of treason. The Act also applied the English offence of misprision of treason to Scotland. Section 3 deals with misprision of treason. United States law defines misprision of felony as a federal crime. Section 5(1) created a new offence which replaced misprision and compounding of felony. Russia has no specific offence of misprision. Davison was arrested, thrown into the Tower of London, and found guilty of misprision. In some cases, misprision has been replaced by a more tightly-defined statutory offence. This misprision was a common aspect of Piers Plowman's dissemination. None of the following offences are described as misprision, but they have a similar scope. Writers on criminal law usually divide misprision into two kinds&colon; negative and positive. Misprision of treason is a reserved matter on which the Scottish Parliament cannot legislate.