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Battery (crime)

Battery is a criminal offense involving "unlawful intentional infliction of harmful or offensive physical contact with another person without consent". It may be either simple or aggravated, and is distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact.

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Criminal CodeActus reusMens reaRecklessAutonomy
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OffenseIntentionalAssaultCommon lawStatutory wording
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SpittingNew YorkMenacing
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Model Penal CodePhysical altercations
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Battery (crime)

Nodes68
Edges67
Triples9
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.029412
Components1

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battery assault another person offence contact law may offensive criminal aggravated act jurisdictions common unlawful offense physical statutory bodily defined

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ABHinstance ofwith more violent crimes0.80text
GBH being statutory offences under the Offences against the Person Act 1861.As suchinstance ofwith more violent crimes0.80text
even the slightest of touches can amount to an unlawful application of forceinstance ofwith more violent crimes0.80text
abuse of trustinstance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text
resulting in potentially longer sentences for acts of battery within the context of domestic violence.Whether it is a statutory offenceIn DPP v Taylorinstance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text
DPP v Littleinstance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text
it was held that battery is a statutory offenceinstance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text
contrary to section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988instance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text
although it provides no definitioninstance ofin section 76 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 has given rise to new sentencing guidelines that take into account significant aggravating factors0.80text

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