But the VADIR data has been criticized as misleading because it uses penal code terminology to classify crimes; for example, an incident in which a child throws a crayon at another child would be
classified as assault with a weapon under VADIR.
However, under current New York State law a so called «one - punch homicide» is
classified as an assault in the third degree — a misdemeanor offense, prosecutors said, and the criminally negligent homicide charge was dropped.
There certainly are offensive events in public, but these are properly
classified as assaults, not invasions of privacy.
I would personally
classify it as assault against the child, but you might think about something entirely different.
Not exact matches
It's hard to imagine that that many people would really care about the exact handling of potentially
classified material compared with, say, sexual
assault, openly mocking the disabled, racist taunts and / or torture
as a tool of war.
The attempted
assaults weren't fun, but I
classified them
as aberrations and moved on.
The crime was reported to police who
classified it
as a sexual
assault in the first degree.
Consequences Because
assault and battery are
classified as violent crimes, their sentences tend to be rather harsh.
To be
classified as a Domestic
Assault for the purposes of these courts, the Accused and Complainant need not be married.
At each assessment, parents were questioned about partner violence with the revised Conflict Tactics Scale.9 Parents were
classified as being
assaulted by a partner if they reported any incident of physical
assault by any partner in each 12 - month follow - up period.