Aggravated Assault

Aggravated assault is the unlawful threat of bodily violence or harm to somebody else, or an attempt to do such harm. The purpose of this paper is to inform the reader about all aspects of the personal crime of aggravated assault. It will illustrate the typical victim and offender and the situations that surround this crime from a citizen and criminologist perspective. Aggravated assault is more serious than assault because the offender inflicts an unlawful …

…aggravated assault crime affects many people, both victims and offenders. The information derived from the National Crime Victimization Survey helps distinguish patterns in certain crimes so that it may be used to prevent them. Many theories can be derived from the victims and the offenders. Also, many prevention methods could be employed to reduce the number of aggravated assaults. The most important and most likely to be effective is an active and healthy parenting role.