Violence Offences Flashcards
Define disfigures
Consists of external injury that mars or alters a person’s appearance. Need not be permanent
Define grievous bodily harm
Really serious or seriously hurts.
Being stabbed and having it an organ
Injures
Actual bodily harm.
Must interfere with the health or comfort of the victim - not a simple bruise
Intent can be proved by:
3
Circumstantial- suspects actions or words, before during or after
Nature - example is having a weapon where it would not be normal to have one
Explanation - Or if there is no explanation, what can be inferred about what the suspect intended
Define maims
Cause serious bodily injury eg- The loss of the use of an essential part such as an eye or arm
Define reckless
Knowing that there is a risk that an event may result from their conduct or that a circumstance May exist they take that risk or
It is unreasonable for them to take it having regard to the degree and nature of the risk which they know to be present
Define stupefy
Cause an effect on the mind or nervous system of a person which really seriously interferes with that persons mental or physical ability to act in any way which might Hinder and intended crime
Define wounds
The skin has been broken or internal injury
Aggravated assault
With intent to commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence or
Avoid detection or
Avoid arrest or facilitate flight of self or another person,
assaulted any other person
Assault on a child - what age must the child be
Under 14
Ill-treatment or neglect of child or vulnerable adult
Have actual car or charge of the victim or a staff member of any hospital, institution where the victim resides
Intentionally engaged in conduct that or omits to perform any legal duty, the omission of which
Is likely to cause suffering, injury, adverse effects to health , any mental disorder
Disabling
Willfully and without lawful justification or excuse comma stupefied or rendered unconscious any other person
Define Robbery
Robbery is theft accompanied by violence or threats of violence, to any person or property, used to extort the property stolen or to prevent or overcome resistance to its being stolen
What must the prosecution prove for robbery
Theft - taking the item to deprive the victim and having possession.
Accompanied by violence: a connection between the violence or threats and the stealing of the property.
Violence used to extort or overcome resistance: Must prove that the purpose of the violence was used to do these things
What is theft in relation to robbery and when is it complete?
An essential element to robbery. Depriving owner permanently or dealing with it so it cannot be returned in its original condition. It is complete when an offender moves or causes it to be moved with the intent of stealing it.
