Sentences with phrase «acts of physical assault»

Individuals with antisocial personality disorder tend to be irritable and aggressive and may repeatedly get into physical fights or commit acts of physical assault (including spouse beating or child beating)(Criterion A4).

Not exact matches

Which is another reason why we can share how we feel and why; but can't be impute motives or be dogmatic except for the most obvious predatory acts like murder, rape, physical assault — those things that have been criminalized by enforceable laws, laws that have the support of an overwhelming public consensus.

In the past ten or 15 years many states have revised rape laws to encompass male as well as female victims, marital rape, acts of sexual coercion not involving intercourse and assaults in which there is no instance of resistance or physical harm.

As you would expect, physical bullying includes hitting and other acts of assault, while verbal bullying revolves around name - calling.

Since, by definition, once a person is rendered unconscious (albeit by a consensual act in anticipation of further consensual acts) that person is no longer physically capable of changing their minds and revoking the consent, legally the «advance consent» evaporates making all subsequent physical actions on the unconscious person assaults (or sexual assaults as the case may be).

With this definition, an actual act of unlawful physical contact is a battery, which is something different to an assault.

Many employers loosely define workplace violence as: Assaults, other violent acts, or threats which occur in or are related to the workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals, or damage to company resources or capabilities.

Assaults, other violent acts, or threats which occur in or are related to the workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals, or damage to company resources or capabilities.

These specific acts and types of negative behaviors include emotional abuse, physical and sexual assaults.

(2)(a) The parent's residential time with the child shall be limited if it is found that the parent has engaged in any of the following conduct: (i) Willful abandonment that continues for an extended period of time or substantial refusal to perform parenting functions; (ii) physical, sexual, or a pattern of emotional abuse of a child; (iii) a history of acts of domestic violence as defined in RCW 26.50.010 (1) or an assault or sexual assault which causes grievous bodily harm or the fear of such harm; or (iv) the parent has been convicted as an adult of a sex offense.

(2)(b) The parent's residential time with the child shall be limited if it is found that the parent resides with a person who has engaged in any of the following conduct: (i) Physical, sexual, or a pattern of emotional abuse of a child; (ii) a history of acts of domestic violence as defined in RCW 26.50.010 (1) or an assault or sexual assault that causes grievous bodily harm or the fear of such harm; or (iii) the person has been convicted as an adult or as a juvenile has been adjudicated of a sex offense.