Assault is defined as “Every one commits an offence who, in any manner, knowingly utters, conveys or causes any person to receive a threat to (a) cause death or bodily harm to any person; (b) to burn, destroy or damage real or personal property; (c) or to kill, poison or injure an animal or bird that is the property of any person.” (Criminal Code, 1985, s 264.1 (1)). If any person were to commit one of these offences the punishments would be (a) an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years; or (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months. (Criminal Code, 1985, s 264.1 (1)). There are 3 different levels of assault Level 1 being the …show more content…
Violent crimes present in British Columbia seemed to be decreasing between 2012 and 2014 with a 96.04 index in 2012 leading to a 11.58% drop in 2013 however by 2015 there was an increase of 7.43% still only putting the index at 82.99 from 77.25 the previous year (Statistics Canada, 2016). Throughout Canada there has also been a decrease between the years 2012 and 2014 for violent crimes with an 85.72 index in 2012 then going down to 70.50 by 2014 (Statistics Canada, 2016). The biggest drop in those years was again in 2013 with a 9.76% drop though by 2015 it started to increase to a 74.48 index making it a 5.65% change (Statistics Canada, 2016).
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Although the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (UCR) is based on police reported incidents it is also useful too look at the General Social Survey (GSS) who personally contact people to see if they have been victimized in the past and with this they could have come across and recorded incidents that were not reported to the police (Statistics Canada, 2014). According to (GSS) physical assault is considered to be the most frequent violent crime in Canada with around 6.4 million criminal incidents during 2014, 22% of that was physical assault (Statistics Canada, 2014). Physical Assault is shown to have fallen by 35% in 2014 being the biggest drop since between 1999 and 2004 with having the highest incidents during 1999 and 2009 at 80 incidents per 1,000 people which dropped to about 45
Assault defines it self as the direct infliction of force, injury or violence upon a person, including attempts or threats. According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, there were 176,427 recorded assaults in Australia in 2007 (AIC, 2015). The Australian Institute of Criminology states that assault is the most common form of violent crime and that assault rates have been on a steady incline over the last 10 years with aggravated assault being more prominent that non-aggravated assault (AIC, 2015). There are several characteristics behind an assault offender, some being that there has been a history of abuse, low Socio-Economic
Seattle, Washington has just posted there statistics for the year 2014. Seattle, Washington has had 26 homicides in the year 2014 the most reported homicides were in the month of June with 0 homicides in February and November. There was 128 rape crimes with the highest rape in the month of July 2014 with 16 reported rapes while September was the lowest with only 5 reported rapes. There was 1,572 cases of robbery in Seattle with September being the highest robberies of 155 reports in September and February only having 79 robberies. Aggravated assault has 2,259 year to date reports with September also being the highest month of 223 reported aggravated assaults and the month of February was the lowest of 151 reported. Those listed above are the most violent crimes in Seattle, Washington. That is a total of 3,985 violent crimes being reported in the year 2014 (Seattle, 2015). The property crimes for Seattle, Washington are even higher as they are less serious and hold less time in jail if you are caught. For 2014, Burglary’s highest crime rate was the month of January with 647 burglaries being reported with the lowest being February of only 499 being reported. Larceny and theft’s highest month was April with 2,574 reported and the lowest was 1,938
Assault in Woonsocket seems to be a common thing to hear on the news. Therefore, I picked the total assault rates in Woonsocket and gathered this information through the UCR. This data showed me that Woonsocket had 694 total assaults in 2015. I compared this data with two other cities (with higher populations) and found that Woonsocket still had the higher total assault rate. This caught me off guard because I would have thought inner cities would have more assaults, but this wasn't the case. UCR helped gather this data while also informing me on the race, age, and gender of offenders collectively for all crimes.
In Canada alone there are approximately 403,000 criminal justice cases annually (Dauvergne, 2010) with a
An assault is: An unlawful attempt, coupled with apparent ability, to commit a violent injury on the person of another; or An intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.
Violent crime in Canada isn’t too big of a problem in comparison to other countries. In Canada citizens are generally happy to see the police. Rates of corruption are nowhere near what they are in other countries. It is reasonable to say violent crime isn’t as prevalent as it is in America because of the strict gun laws Canada imposes. Also, United States of America has a serious gang problem in comparison to Canada, part of the reason being the shipment of drugs from the southern border. Some examples of violent crimes are assault, aggravated assault, sexual based offences, murder (first and second degree), kidnapping, and robbery. In recent years violent offences has been on the rise in Canada. The types of individuals who commit violent crimes range from gang members to substance abusers. A lot
Anything from unwanted touching in a sexual manner to non-consensual sexual intercourse is classified as sexual assault in Canada. Male survivors of sexual assault frequently face unsympathetic attitudes after choosing to report the criminal offence. Unfortunately, despite the similar chances of sexual assault amongst both males and females during their teenage years, with 20% for males and 25% for females, there are fewer researches conducted on male sexual assault in Canada (Statistics Canada 2015). A large proportion (16%) of male victims are sexually assaulted in an institutional setting, which is over two and a half times greater than the percentage of females in the same location (Brennan 2008). The UCR2 (Uniform Crime Reporting Survey)
There are a number of actions, which may be considered second-degree assault under Colorado state law. Intentionally
Educational institutions, tribal and federal law and 18,000 cities is where UCR collects its data and information from. Since the data in the UCR is all about the victim information and the crime that took place but on the other hand it do not pinpoint the victim just handle crimes that has been reported. While the Bureau of Justice Statistics has to deliver a National Crime Victimization Survey to all the victims across the country this is the only way that victim information will be included.
Or simply called, assault is the attempt to commit battery or do bodily harm. This is an act that is made to create fear of injury on a victim. You might be wondering if an actual physical contact is needed to find that a person is guilty of the crime – misdemeanor assault; the fact is, you don’t need to.
The crime of assault is when a subject threatens to inflict bodily harm with the ability to carry out this threat. In criminal law a threat does not constitute an assault, however during a fight if one party threatens to hit you and raises his fist, then this is considered an assault, because the subject is intending to carry out the threat to hit you. The second type of assault is Aggravated assault. This assault is punishable in all states and is when a victim is in fear that the subject is going to do more than merely frighten them. Most aggravated assaults are classified with robbery, rape or intent to kill. While reading through the legal dictionary I noticed that it gave an example that if someone points an unloaded gun at you this
It is an issue that is also impacting the Australian population as there are a numerous assaults as an outcome of domestic violence (ABC News, 2014).Figure 1 shows high rates of domestic violence related assaults that have occurred only in New South Wales in 2013. In greater Sydney there were 15,413 assaults related to domestic violence (ABC News, 2014).
The goal of this paper is to provide factual information addressing the links to deaths and injuries to different areas around Toronto. Map sources can be used to display and show the changes throughout the past decade to show where activity is taking place. To prove these theories as true, I will use the Toronto Police crime statistics website, review multiple “big name” papers (such as Toronto Star, Globe and Mail, National Post, and The Canadian Press), as well
Simple battery may include any form of non-consensual harmful or insulting contact, regardless of the injury caused. Criminal battery requires intent to inflict an injury on another. 33. Battery defined Battery is the intentional use of force or violence upon the person of another; or the intentional administration of a poison or other noxious liquid or substance to another. The overt behavior of an assault might be Person A advancing upon Person B by chasing after him and swinging a fist toward his head. The overt behavior of battery might be A actually striking Battery requires (1) a volitional act that (2) results in a harmful or offensive contact with another person and (3) is committed for the purpose of causing a harmful or offensive
In Hamilton, there were 1,100 people that made violent crimes per 100,000 people. There were also 20 people killed and 300 property crimes in Hamilton per 1,000 people. Hamilton has a 47.33 in the crime index and a 52.67 in the safety index. As for Winnipeg, it has 110 in the crime severity index and the average is 77.6. The violent crime in Winnipeg is 175.1 and the average is 85.3. Murder times in Winnipeg is 10 from 2010 to 2017. Let's move on to air