Crimes Against Persons Flashcards
An unlawful attack by one person upon another wherein the offender uses a weapon or displays it in a threatening manner, or the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe lacerations, or loss of consciousness.
Aggravated Assault
An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness.
Simple Assault
To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack.
Intimidation
The killing of one human being by another
Homicide Offenses
The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.
Murder & Non-Negligent Manslaughter
The killing of another person through negligence.
Negligent Manslaughter
The killing of a perpetrator of a serious criminal offense by a peace officer in the line of duty; or the killing, during the commission of a serious criminal offense, of the perpetrator by a private individual.
Justifiable Homicide
The unlawful seizure, transportation, and/or detention of a person against his/her will, and of a minor without the consent of his/her custodial parents or legal guardian.
Kidnapping/Abduction
The carnal knowledge of a person, forcibly and/or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth).
Forcible Rape
Oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of a mental or physical incapacity.
Forcible Sodomy
To use an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genitalia or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental or physical incapacity.
Sexual Assault with an Object
The touching of the private parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of age or mental incapacity.
Forcible Fondling
Non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Incest
Non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.
Statutory Rape
This crime involves the offering or solicitation of sexual acts for money or other items of value.
Prostitution/Solicitation
By examining the insect population on the body and the evolving larval states, forensic scientists can approximate the number of days that the subject has been deceased.
True
The only reason women do not report rape to the police is because they are too embarrassed.
False
In a missing child case, the victim’s bedroom is one of the first places to search.
True
Before making a missing person’s report, you must wait 24 hours, to give them a chance to get home.
False
Child sexual abuse involves any sexual touching of the child’s body.
True
Auto-erotic deaths are usually suicide.
False
Robbery generally consists of stealing the personal property of another, from their person or in their presence against their will by violence, or intimidation or threat of force.
True
Vitreous fluid can help determine the time of death.
True
An injury by an instrument or weapon with a sharp cutting edge is known as incised wound.
True
