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 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.

• 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.