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Number of recorded crimes (2009–10). Categories approximate non-fatal offences against the person. Common to all crimes against the person is the infringement of the right to bodily integrity. It extends to the touching of clothing, for example, and where no physical harm actually results.
In section 2(2) of the Law Reform (Year and a Day Rule) Act 1996, "fatal offence" means: murder, manslaughter, infanticide or any other offence of which one of the elements is causing a person's death; [4] an offence under section 2(1) of the Suicide Act 1961 in connection with the death of a person; [5] or
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The Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 addressed an increase in syringe attack muggings and abandoned used syringes by creating offences of attacking or threatening with (s. 6), possession with intent (s. 7), and placing or abandoning (s. 8) a syringe or container of blood.
Title 18 of the United States Code is the main criminal code of the federal government of the United States. [1] The Title deals with federal crimes and criminal procedure . In its coverage, Title 18 is similar to most U.S. state criminal codes, typically referred to by names such as Penal Code, Criminal Code, or Crimes Code. [ 2 ]
The common law offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm was abolished, [10] and section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 was repealed, [11] on a date three months after 19 May 1997. [12] The modern offences of assault, assault causing harm, and causing serious harm were created by that Act. [13]
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As of November 2014, 44 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the federal government and two territories have some form of strangulation or impeded breathing statute. [27] Twenty-three states and one territory have enacted legislation making strangulation a felony. [ 27 ]