Violent Crimes:

Aggravated Assault: (1) Criminal assault accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the intent to commit another crime or the intent to cause serious bodily injury, especially by using a deadly weapon.

Aggravated Battery: (1) A criminal battery accompanied by circumstances that make it more severe, such as the use of a deadly weapon or the fact that the battery resulted in serious bodily harm.

Arson: (1) At common law, the malicious burning of someone else’s dwelling house or outhouse that is either appurtenant to the cartilage. (2) Under modern statutes, the intentional and wrongful burning of someone else’s property (as to destroy a building) or one’s own property (as to fraudulently collect insurance). (3) Malicious burning of the dwelling house of another/purposeful burning of a structure.

Assault: (1)The threat or use of force on another that causes that person to have a reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact; the act of putting another person in reasonable fear or apprehension of an immediate battery by means of an act amounting to an attempt or threat to commit a battery. (2) (Criminal Law) An attempt to commit battery, requiring the specific intent to cause physical injury. (3) Loosely, a battery. (4) Popularly, any attack. (Related Crime: Battery)

Battery: (1) The use of force against another, resulting in harmful or offensive contact. (2) Battery is a misdemeanor under most modern statutes.

Child Abuse: (1) Intentional or neglectful physical or emotional harm inflicted on a child, including sexual molestation; esp., a parent’s or caregiver’s act of failure to act that results in a child’s exploitation, serious physical or emotional injury, sexual abuse, or death. (2) An act or failure to act that presents an imminent risk of serious harm to a child. (Related Crimes: Child Neglect, Elderly Abuse, Sexual Abuse, & Spousal Abuse)

Domestic Violence: The use of physical force, usually accompanied by fury, vehemence, or outrage; especially physical force unlawfully exercised with the intent to harm. (2) Some courts have held that violence in labor disputes is not limited to physical contact or injury, but may include picketing conducted with misleading signs, false statements, erroneous publicity, and veiled threats by words and acts.

Hate Crime: (1) A crime motivated by the victim’s race, color, ethnicity, religion, or national origin. (2) Certain groups have lobbied to expand the definition by statute to include a crime motivated by the victim’s disability, gender, or sexual orientation.

Homicide: (1) A killing of one person by another. (Related Crimes: Murder, Manslaughter)

Kidnapping: (1) At common law, the crime of forcibly abducting a person from his or her own country and sending the person to another. (2) The crime of seizing and taking away a person by force or fraud. (Related Crimes: Aggravated Kidnapping, Child-Kidnapping, Kidnapping for Ransom, Parental Kidnapping, Simple Kidnapping)

Manslaughter: (1) The unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. (Related Crimes: Involuntary Manslaughter, Misdemeanor Manslaughter, Voluntary Manslaughter, & Vehicular Manslaughter)

Murder: (1) The killing of a human being with malice aforethought. (Related Crimes: Depraved-Heart Murder, Felony Murder, First Degree Murder, Mass Murder, Murder by Torture, Second Degree Murder, Serial Murder, Third Degree Murder, & Willful Murder)

Robbery: (1) The illegal taking of property from the person of another, or in the person’s presence, by violence or intimidation; aggravated larceny. (Related Crimes: Aggravated Robbery, Armed Robbery, & Simple Robbery)

Threats: (1) A communicated intent to inflict harm or loss on another or on another’s property, especially one that might diminish a person’s freedom to act voluntarily or with lawful consent.

Terrorist Threats: A threat to commit any crime of violence with the purpose of (1) terrorizing another, (2) Causing the evacuation of a building, public or assembly, or facility of public transportation, (3) causing serious public inconvenience, or (4) recklessly disregarding the risk of causing such terror or inconvenience.

Simple Battery: (1) A criminal battery not accompanied by aggravating circumstances and not resulting in serious bodily harm.