CLERY CRIME DEFINITIONS

Aggravated Assault

• Unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicing severe or aggravated bodily injury.

Arson

• Willful or malicious burning or attempt to burn with or without intent to defraud a dwelling house, public building, motor vehicle or aircraft, personal property of another, etc.

Burglary

• Unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft.

Dating Violence

• Violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim; and where the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on a consideration of the following factors:
  • the length of the relationship
  • the type of the relationship
  • the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship

Domestic Violence

• Felony or misdemeanor crimes of violence committed by a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim, by a person with whom the victim share a child in common, by a person who is cohabitating with or has cohabitated with the victim as a spouse or intimate partner, by a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic violence or family violence laws of the jurisdiction…or by any person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction.

Drug Law Violation

• The violation of laws prohibiting the production, distribution, and/or use of certain controlled substances and the equipment or devices utilized in their preparation and/or use.

Hazing

• “Injurious hazing” means any action or situation, including harassing behavior, that recklessly or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health of any school personnel or a student enrolled at an institution in this state or any activity expected of a student as a condition of joining or maintaining membership in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers the student, regardless of the student’s willingness to participate in the activity.

Homicide

• Murder/Non-negligent Manslaughter: the willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another
• Negligent Manslaughter: the killing of another person through gross negligence.

Illegal Weapons Possession

• The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, concealment, or use of firearms, cutting instruments, explosives, incendiary devices, or other deadly weapons.

Liquor Law Violation

• The violation of state or local laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, purchase, transportation, possession, or use of alcoholic beverages.

Motor Vehicle Theft

• The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle.

Robbery

• Taking of attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear.

Sex Offenses – Forcible

• Forcible Rape: carnal knowledge of a person forcibly and/or against the person’s will; or not forcibly or against the person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (or because of his/her youth).
• Forcible Sodomy: oral or anal sexual intercourse with another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly and/or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.
• Sexual Assault With An Object: use of an object or instrument to unlawfully penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of the body of another person, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly and/or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.
• Forcible Fondling: touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, forcibly and/or against that person’s will; or not forcibly and/or against that person’s will where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her youth or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity.

Sex Offenses – Non-Forcible

• Incest: non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
• Statutory Rape: non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the age of consent.

Stalking

• Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety of the safety of others, or suffer substantial emotional distress.