Personal Crime Analysis

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Personal Crimes Analysis CJA/354 August 18, 2012 Personal crimes are crimes committed against another person that affects them on a personal level that include homicide, assault, battery, mayhem, rape, and statutory rape. These are very different crimes and have their own characteristics but they have one thing in common, there is a perpetrator and a victim. This essay will identify, define these crimes and connect the links on how it affects a victim on a personal level. Homicide According to the Legal Dictionary (2012), defines homicide as a criminal act when a person kills or murders another human being. Homicide covers a broader range of murder, but murder is considered a form of criminal homicide. There are several types of homicide; one type is murder of first degree. This form of murder is premeditated and intentional criminal act. When a criminal act is intentional, it is committed purposely with a guilty intention which would be referred to the mens rea aspect of the crime. First degree murder is felony-based crime that receives a punishment of life imprisonment with no eligibility for parole and some cases may receive the death penalty. Felony murder is another type of homicide. A felony murder committed during another felony offense that ends with the unintentional death of another. Felony is a liable crime and mens rea is not required. Second degree murder is an intentional or unintentional act of homicide. There is no premeditation involved with second degree murder. The last type of homicide is manslaughter and is a murder act committed that can be either voluntary, intentionally, or unintentionally which would be considered involuntary manslaughter. For the act of murder to be consider manslaughter there are two key elements that need to be proven; provocation and heat of passion. Assault Assault is a personal crime involving either

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