1. Criminal Law 2.2 Crimes Against the Person

2. Crimes Against the Person
Assault: any attempt or threat to carry out a physical attack upon another person
Battery: any unlawful physical contact inflicted by one person upon another without consent.
Actual injury is not necessary, the only requirement is the intention to do bodily harm
Stalking: a person repeatedly follows or harasses another person and makes threats, causing the victim to fear death or bodily injury

3. Sexual Crimes Against the Person
Rape: the act of unlawful sexual intercourse committed by a man with a woman by force and without her consent.
Statutory rape is sexual intercourse by a man with a woman who has not yet reached the legal age of consent.
If the victim is a male, the state of NC refers to this as a “sexual offense.”

4. Criminal Homicide: Murder
The most serious type of criminal homicide is murder, which is done with malice: the intent to kill or seriously harm or acting in an extremely reckless manner.
First-degree murder: killing that is premeditated and done with malice
Second-degree murder: killing that is done with malice, but without premeditation or deliberation
Felony murder: any killing that takes place during the commission of certain felonies, such as arson, rape, robbery, or burglary.

5. Criminal Homicide
Voluntary manslaughter: a killing that would otherwise be murder, but that occurs after the victim has done something to the killer that would cause a reasonable person to lose self-control or act rashly.
Involuntary manslaughter: an unintentional killing resulting from conduct so reckless that it causes extreme danger of death or bodily injury.
Negligent homicide: the causing of a death through criminal negligence, or the failure to exercise a reasonable or ordinary amount of care in a situation that causes extreme harm to someone.

6. Noncriminal Homicide
Noncriminal homicide: killing that is justifiable or excusable and for which the killer is deemed faultless.
Ex: killing an enemy soldier during wartime, the killing of a condemned criminal by an executioner, killing a person in self-defense, etc.