Sentences with phrase «threatened use of physical force»

A federal statute defines «crime of violence» as «(a) an offense that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or «(b) any other offense that is a felony and that, by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.»

The act defines a violent felony as: «any crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year... that — «(i) has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of another; or (ii) is burglary, arson, or extortion, involves use of explosives, or otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another.»

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Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another Domestic Violence Prevention Centre is a non-government community based organisation that provides specialist domestic violence support services to the

Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another

Training should cover areas including: reading body language; making a calm assessment of potentially threatening situations; reacting in the event of a physical attack; using reasonable force and powers to restrain, and dealing with unexpected confrontations and conflicts.

use or threaten physical force of any kind towards you, any member of your family or people connected with you

(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, a person is not justified in using physical force if: (a) With intent to cause bodily injury or death to another person, he provokes the use of unlawful physical force by that other person; or (b) He is the initial aggressor; except that his use of physical force upon another person under the circumstances is justifiable if he withdraws from the encounter and effectively communicates to the other person his intent to do so, but the latter nevertheless continues or threatens the use of unlawful physical force; or (c) The physical force involved is the product of a combat by agreement not specifically authorized by law.

The observed cross-loadings of individual items as well as items that belonged to other domains than in the conceptual model may reflect that female victims often are not exposed to one form of violence in isolation of the other.32 For example, the sexual violence item «Forced me to have sex against my will by using his / her physical strength (by hitting, holding me firmly or threatening me with a weapon),» which loaded in both the physical and sexual IPV components, is hard to divide into one or the other category.

Third, whoever has used, is using, or is threatening to use physical force or violence toward the other spouse has a source of power.

The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment or deprivation.

Children or adolescents with conduct disorder may exhibit some of the following behaviors: Aggression to people and animals * Bullies, threatens or intimidates others * Often initiates physical fights * Has used a weapon that could cause serious physical harm to others (e.g. a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife or gun) * Is physically cruel to people or animals * Steals from a victim while confronting them (e.g. assault) * Forces someone into sexual activity