False imprisonment occurs when one person deliberately restricts the movements of another without the legal authority to do so. Also known as wrongful imprisonment, false imprisonment can occur with or without physical restraints. For example, this crime may apply to a bank robber who refuses to allow the bank’s customers or workers to leave the premises during the robbery. In domestic abuse cases, false imprisonment may take the form of locking someone in a room and not allowing them to escape. If law enforcement arrests and holds someone without cause or places them in prison without regard to exculpatory information, this, too, is false imprisonment.