CHAPTER K Flashcards
- What are the 2 classes of assault
- Simple assault.
2. Aggravated assault
- What injuries are not considered assault. 3
- Injuries sustained in an accident.
- Injury to property.
- Or self inflicted injury
- What needs to be established in order for there to be an assault.
Intent.
- Defination of simple assault
Threats by one person to cause bodily harm or death to another, or purposely inflicting bodily harm on another
- Bodily harm to establish simple assault can be as little as
A push , slap , or slightly less
- Defination of aggravated assault
A personal crime associated with a high possibility of death , serious , permanent disfigurement , permanent or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any body member or organ , or other severe bodily harm.
- What does aggravated assault include.
2. What 3 things are considered elements relating to the serenity of the attack
- It includes simple assault and plus an additional element relating to the severity of the attack.
- High probability of death
- Serious or permanent disfigurement.
- Loss or impairment of body members or organs
- The law does not require someone to retreat from an attack however ……
If escape is possible without killing the attacher. Then the victim must do so.
- How much force should be used to defend urself from an attacker.
- What if u use more excessive force then necessary.
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- The amount of force used should only be enough to rebuff the attack and no more
- A display of excessive force used to punish the attacher can be interpreted by the courts as an assault in and of itself
- What’s the profile of an abusive man. 4
- Tend to be manipulative and persuasive actors.
- They believe women should be subordinate
- They are cons, smart, charming , and cunning.
- They spot vulnerable women and put on their best behavior.
- When dealing with domestic violence. What should officers not consider when deciding to make an arrest for domestic Assault.
- What doesn’t the victim have to do
- The willingness of the victim to testify.
2. The victim need not sign a complaint.
- What do police do if the domestic violence assault is mutual
Officers must determine the primary physical aggressor and arrest that person.
- Stalking defination
2. What does stalking involve
- A course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear
- It envolves a pattern of overtly criminal and apparently innocent behavior that makes a victim fear for themselves or others
- Stalking differs from other crimes in two ways
- It entails repeat victimization of the person the offender targets. It is a series of of acts rather then a single incident.
- And second it is partly defined by its impact on the victim.
- Who are the primary victims of stalking
- Who are the primary offenders
- Stalkers are mostly stalked by whom
- Women
- Men
- Past intimate partners
- What are the 3 categories of stalking
- What Other stalking is on the rise.
- What category does the majority of stalking fall into
- What is the typical police response to stalking
- Intimate or former intimate stalking
- Acquaintance stalking
- Stranger stalking
- Cyberstalking
- Intimate or former intimate stalking
- Get a restraining order
- What 2 crimes are grossly underreported
- Rape and sexual crimes
- Defination of forcible rape
- Rapes Reported under the UCR are always what
- What is make rape recognized as
- The Carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will
- Females
- Sexual assault or other sex crimes
Defination of sexual battery
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The intentional and wrongful physical contact with a person without his or her Consent that entails a sexual component or purpose.
Statuatory rape
No force is involved with a girl under the age of consent
- What is the least reported of all violent offenses
- What is the number one reason for this
- What does a rapist seek from the victims
- Forcible rape
- The victims fear of embarrassment.
- A sense or personal fulfillment and dominance
- Forcible rape is usually a what
- Which serves the offenders need for what. Rather then what
- Statistically. Who is a rape often committed by.
- A planned violent crime
- Power rather then sexual gratification
- Committed by an acquaintance.