Crimes Against Persons: Other Offenses

Vocabulary flashcards covering legal definitions, elements, mens rea, and actus reus for crimes against persons, including kidnapping, false imprisonment, stalking, assault, battery, and mayhem.

Kidnapping

A crime of force involving the unlawful seizure, movement, and confinement of a person against their will by force, threat of force, or fraud.

Mens Rea of Kidnapping

The requirement that the defendant must intend to seize a person, move the person, and confine the person against their will.

Actus Reus of Kidnapping

The unlawful seizure, movement, and confinement of a person carried out by force, threat of force, or fraud.

False Imprisonment

An offense similar to kidnapping that involves intentionally seizing and unlawfully confining a person against their will by force, threat of force, or fraud, but without the requirement of movement.

Stalking

Intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed against another person that induces fear of bodily injury or death in the victim, often requiring two or more separate fear-inducing acts.

Cyber Stalking

The use of technology to frighten, harass, surveil, and terrify victims while allowing the perpetrator to remain anonymous and reduce the risk of being seen.

Assault

An attempted battery or intentional frightening of another person through a willful attempt, threat, or display of force with apparent ability that places the victim in fear of immediate bodily harm.

Conditional Assault

An assault where the actor threatens harm only under certain circumstances, such as the victim's failure to act in a specific way demanded by the actor.

Aggravated Assault

An assault committed with the specific intent to kill, rob, or rape, or an assault carried out with specified deadly weapons.

Battery

The unlawful application of direct or indirect force to the person of another resulting in bodily injury or offensive touching, requiring only criminal negligence rather than intent.

Aggravated Battery

A battery involving the use of a deadly weapon, resulting in serious bodily injury, or committed against specific victims such as a child, woman, or police officer.

Consent (Battery Defense)

A defense recognized in some jurisdictions for simple or specified batteries where the victim consents to the act and the harm, such as in sports or surgical operations.

Mayhem

An aggravated form of battery that results in the loss of use of a body part, permanent disfigurement, or disabling of the victim's body.