Question

In 500 words analyzing ASSAULTIVE crimes, explain how Assault-Battery Crimes increase in severity, as the weapon used, or the fear imposed, or the damage inflicted, increase in danger and severity

Answer 1

In Michigan, the criminal law recognizes many types of assault. Assaultive crime is the crime which begins with an assault. An assault is an unlawful and intentional threat which one is most liable to get from the assaulter. The treat is given about the harm to the body. The victim should recognize the threat which his/her attacker is intending to. In assaultive crimes when a weapon is used during a crime or when the intended is accused of causing harm to the body of the victim, a felony is charged on the intended. For instance, when someone tries to intent bodily harm or assault someone with the intent to commit murder, felony s charged on the person. When an assault is conducted willfully and intentionally on the person without the victim’s free will and consent it is known as assault or battery.
There are three cases in which an assault or battery is committed. Firstly, when a person tries to or does physical harm to another. Secondly, when a person acts in a threatening manner to create a feeling of immediate fear in the victim. Battery assault is the most ferocious act of crime when the intended tries to or causes severe harm and injury to the victim and or causes harm or injury to the use of any deadly weapon. An assault is an attempt to harm or injure another person while a battery is a case in which the intended actually harms the victim physically and through contacts. Battery offense requires intentional touching which is offensive and harmful with no consent of the victim. In the case of battery, generally, the harm to the victim is not intended. Instead, it only is intended to build a contact or create contact with an individual. But when someone acts in an offensive manner which causes harm to the other it becomes an assault. Often such assaults are committed with the help of harmful and deadly weapons in order to commit more serious crimes like murder and rape. Such assaults can cause serious injury or even lead to death. Assault committed with the help of any deadly weapon is a felony irrespective of what sort of weapon is used.
For example, If a girl walks in a bar and finds her boyfriend dancing with another girl she walks to her and in rage pushes her off. She even scratches and beats her up. Until then the bouncers stop them. This is an example of an assault committed in which the victim doesn’t get much harm.
In the same case if the girl after pushing another girl harms her with broken glass or any deadly weapon, then the assault is termed to be the battery. In this case, the intention of the girl was near to harming the girl severely.
The punishments to the assault and battery vary according to the jurisdictions of the state and the circumstance in which it has been committed. Generally, the punishments vary from fines and community service to imprisonment of one or more year.