Assault Causing Harm in UK Law
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Violence: Occurrence and reporting
A study has been carried out to determine whether there has been a real increase in violent crime in Victoria or whether the public has been affected by the ...
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Personal reactions to sexual assault disclosures made by female clients diagnosed with serious mental illness
Purpose: Mental health practitioners working with female clients diagnosed with a serious mental illness (SMI) often face client disclosures of sexual assault. Research has shown that practitioners...... ... of uncertainty, fearand worry about how best to respond without causing further harm. Findings serve to inform future training tosupport ... ...
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Understanding revenge pornography: public perceptions of revenge pornography and victim blaming
Purpose: The disclosure of private images with the intent of causing distress is often described as “revenge pornography”. In the UK, this newly legislated crime has received a high level of media ...... ... of private images with the intent of causing distress is often described as ... revenge pornography creates psychological harm in victims, and victim blaming.Findings ... relating to stalking and sexual assault, men blamed the victim significantly more than ... ...
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Consent and the ‘Rough Sex’ Defence in Rape, Murder, Manslaughter and Gross Negligence
When women die at the hands of men, a not infrequent defence is that she consented to, or initiated, the beating, strangulation and penetration which contributed to her death. While strangulation h...... ... as defined in section 2 of this Act causing death, it is not a defence to aCorresponding ... SSM Edwards, Assault, Strangulation and MurderChallenging the Sexual ... section 2 of this Act causing actualbodily harm or more serious injury, it is not a defence to a ... ...
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How Serious is the Offence of Drunken Driving?
... ... Causing grievous bodily harm: During a political ... Income tax evasion Drug smuggling Assault causing grievous bodily harm Forging and ... ...
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R v Brown: Consensual Harm and the Public Interest
... ... to consider the relevance of consent to the offences of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and unlawful wounding.2 It was isputed that consent to the causing of such harm was sometimes relevant to liability .3 The main ... ...
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Estimating the prevalence of opiate use in Ireland and the implications for the criminal justice system
Drawing upon innovative research methods this article provides the first Irish estimates of opiate use based entirely on non-medical data. These estimates are based ...... ... Aggravated sexual assault ... Sexual assault ... False imprisonment ... Abduction ... Assault causing harm ... Theft from the person ... Theft from ... ...
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SADO‐MASOCHISM, CONSENT, AND THE REFORM OF THE CRIMINAL LAW
... ... physical and severe psychological harm.3 I would not suggest venturing further ... upon the footing either that the assault is not criminal provided that consent is ... 245 (2)); or causing bodily harm with intent (s. 228). 65 A.L.I ... ...
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Improving Crime Statistics by “Correcting” for System Characteristics: A Methodological Note
Crime rates are influenced by the way various agencies screen out cases at different stages of the recording procedures. This leads to lack of comparability of statistics from one jurisdiction to a...... ... Sexual assault, fraud, and a variety of other offences, ... 392 599 237 939 263 Assault Grievous Bodily Harm 1987 14 19 14 17 9 6 9 4 Serious Assault ... a "non-screenable crime", assault causing grievous bodily harm or serious assault. The ... ...
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Recent Judicial Decisions
... ... to sleep, dizziness and stress.An assault was any act by which a person intentionally or ... ] 1 WLR 689 it was held that "actual bodily harm" was capableof including psychiatric injury but ... that the violence was inflictedindirectly causing psychological harm did not render the act to be ... ...
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