aggravated assault

(noun)

Assault with disregard for the value of life, or with a deadly weapon.

Related Terms

Examples of aggravated 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.

  • 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.

  • The Death Penality

    • Supporters of the death penalty argue that the death penalty is morally justified when applied in murder, especially with aggravating elements, such as multiple homicide, child murder, torture murder, and mass killing including terrorism or genocide.

  • Panic

    • Recent moral panics in the UK have included the ongoing tabloid newspaper campaign against pedophiles, which led to the assault and persecution of a pediatrician by an angry, if semi-literate, mob in August 2000, and that surrounding the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool, England in 1993.

  • Rape

    • Rape is a type of sexual assault in which one or more individuals forces sexual contact on another individual without consent.
    • Some victims come to believe they somehow deserved the assault, while others become preoccupied thinking about how the rape could have been avoided.
    • In the case of rape, victim blaming generally refers to the belief that certain behaviors on the part of the victim, like flirting or wearing provocative clothing, encourage assault.

  • Deviance

    • Examples of formal deviance include robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault.

  • Introduction to deviance

    • Examples of formal deviance would include: robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault, just to name a few.

  • Spousal Abuse

    • According to a report by the United States Department of Justice, a survey of 16,000 Americans showed 22.1 percent of women and 7.4 percent of men reported being physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, or date in their lifetime.
    • According to a report by the United States Department of Justice, a survey of 16,000 Americans showed 22.1 percent of women and 7.4 percent of men reported being physically assaulted by a current or former spouse, cohabiting partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, or date in their lifetime.

  • 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.