Simple Assault

Examples of Simple Assault in the following topics:

• Violent Crime

  • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

• Types of Crime

  • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

• Sexual Harrassment

  • Sexual harassment can includes a range of behavior from mild transgressions (like jokes or innuendos) to sexual abuse or sexual assault, but laws against sexual harassment typically don't prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or minor isolated incidents.
  • Psychologists and social workers report that severe or chronic sexual harassment can have the same psychological effects as rape or sexual assault.
  • Strong, the Army's campaign to combat sexual harassment and sexual assaults.

• Sexual Violence

  • Rape is a form of sexual assault involving one or more persons who force sexual penetration with another individual without that individual's consent.
  • Sexual violence is not limited to rape; it is a broad category that can include everything from verbal harassment to physical assault.
  • Neither vantage point is simple; some women in Africa accept the practice, while others have been vocal in speaking out against the practice.

• Current Research

  • The US Federal government has raised concerns about this issue and various reports have found that colleges and universities are not addressing sexual violence as they should.For instance, many universities fail to investigate allegations of sexual assaults, they fail to encourage victims to report sexual assaults, they fail to provide adequate sexual assault training, and there are inadequate resources for the survivors of sexual assault.
  • The figure below suggests that sexual assaults are relatively rare on college campuses.
  • However, fewer than 5% of people raped on college campuses report their sexual assault to law enforcement, which suggests the numbers in the figure may be substantially higher than the figure reports.
  • Further, official figures like the one below limit their reporting to "forcible sexual assault" despite mounting evidence that the vast majority of sexual assaults on college campuses do not fit this narrow definition, and typically involve more subtle forms of sexual violence and coercion.
  • In fact, in-depth analyses of sexual violence on college campuses generally reveals that sexual assault has become a normal aspect of college experience, culture, and structure for many American women, that on average 1 in 5 college women will be sexually victimized in some way during their college careers, and that common forms of college leisure activity, such as Greek, Party, and Drinking cultures and habits on campuses, often facilitate the normalization of college sexual assault.

• Sexual Harassment

  • The law does not prohibit simple teasing, offhand comments, or isolated incidents that are not very serious.
  • Sexual violence that is expressed in terms of some sort of physical assault against a victim has become a condemnable act; victims of physical violence are more likely to find others who are sympathetic to their understandable distress.

• Sexism

  • It can also refer to simple hatred of men (misandry) or women (misogyny) or trans people (transphobia).
  • In 2002, women were the victims of over 900,000 violent crimes and over 200,000 rapes or sexual assaults.
  • Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crime, but far less likely to be the victims of rapes or sexual assaults.

• The War in France

  • These battles were marked by destructive attacks and counter-assaults by foot soldiers launched from opposing trenches.
  • The top lip of the trench was known as the parapet, and soldiers stood on steps below with hand-held periscopes – sometimes as simple as angled mirrors at the top and bottom of a stick – that enabled them to look out toward the enemy without being exposed.

• Verbal Aspect: Simple, Progressive, Perfect, and Perfect Progressive

• Simple and Compound Sentences