CRIM 335 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Serial Killer, Authoritarianism, Anomie
18 Apr 2018
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Interpersonal violence: the threat, attempt, or actual use of physical force by one or more person that results in physical or nonphysical harm to one or more other persons. Physically injurious acts committed by one or more people against one or more others: not included: self-harm, cybercrime, corporate crime, nonphysical harm: anxiety, fear, and other emotional states. Offender intended to do serious harm just short of murder: voluntary manslaughter: killings committed out of intense emotion such as anger or fear. It wasn"t an accident and wasn"t planned either: ex: road rage. Involuntary manslaughter: killings committed because offenders have acted recklessly. Your reckless actions caused someone to die: ex: texting and driving. Prosecutors have great latitude in deciding what to charge someone with. baby: major difference between homicide and assault is whether the victim dies, assault: an unlawful attack by one person on another to inflict bodily injury.
