Crimes Against the Person
Terms
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- Forcible Rape
- the act of unlawful sexual intercourse man vs. woman or woman vs. man
- 1st Degree Murder
- Planned in advanced and done with Malice or during the commission of a dangerous felony.
- Negligent Homicide
- causing death through negligent behavior.
- Felony Murder
- The killing of someone during the commission of certain other dangerous felonies regardless of intent to kill.
- Statutory Rape
- the act of unlawful sexual intercourse with someone under the age of consent, even if that person is a willing and voluntary participant in the sexual act.
- Malice
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Ill will; deliberate intent to harm someone.
- Voluntary Manslaughter
- intentional but not premeditated
- 2nd Degree Murder
- Doesn't require Malice or premeditation but is the result of a desire to inflict bodily harm.
- Date Rape
- sexual assualt by someone known to the victim, such as a date or neighbor.
- Homicide
- The killing of another person.
- Non Criminal Homicide
- a killing that is justifiable or excusable and for which the killer is deemed faultless.
- Stalking
- the act of following or harassing another person, causing him or her to fear death or injury.
- Involuntary Manslaughter
- unintentional but done during an unlawful act of a lesser nature.
- Assualt
- an international threat, show of force, or movement that cause a reasonable fear of, or an actual physical contact with another person.
- Battery
- any intentional, unlawful physical contact inflicted on one person by another without consent.
- Negligence
- the failure to exercise a reasonable amount of care in either doing or not doing something, resulting in harm or injury.
- Suicide
- the deliberate taking of ones own life.