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Assault is a misdemeanor punishable by one year imprisonment; assault with "intent to have carnal knowledge of him or her" or who indecently assaults another, or who commits other more-serious variants of assault (as defined in the Act) are guilty of a felony, and longer prison terms are provided for.
Sexual assault is an act of sexual abuse in which one intentionally sexually touches ... The legal and social definition of what constitutes sexual harassment differ ...
In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an immediate harmful or offensive contact.
Assault is the act of physically or verbally attacking another. Mayhem or malicious assault is the intentional dismemberment or disfiguring of a person. Stalking is the repeated observation, following, threatening, or harassing engendering fear of harm. [20] Battery is unconsented bodily contact with another or the intentional use of force ...
The UCR excludes simple assault (attacks or attempted attacks without a weapon resulting in either no injury or minor injury) and sexual assault, which are in the NCVS. The NCVS data are estimates from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households, but the UCR data are based on the actual counts of offenses reported by law enforcement.
Gun owners face a Jan. 1 deadline to register their assault weapons with the state under Illinois’ assault weapons law.
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
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