• Crimes against the person refers to offenses where bodily harm or threats of bodily harm are involved.
• There are a large number and variety of crimes against the person, as defined by state and federal statute.

A Broad General List of Crimes Against the Person:
Because crimes against the person are defined by state and federal statute, they may vary significantly. A partial list would include, but not be limited to, the following:

Homicide offenses – homicide is actually not one specific offense but a category of offenses referring to the death of one person by one or more persons.

• Murder – when a life is take with express or implied malice aforethought. Malice aforethought refers to deliberately and intentionally taking the life of another.
• Voluntary manslaughter – where a life is taken, in many jurisdictions provoked by excitable passion.
• Manslaughter – when one person kills another without deliberation or malice.
• Kidnapping – when force, intimidation or deception is used to restrain, confine or transport another.
• False imprisonment – confining and/or detaining another without the victim’s consent and without legal authority.
• Sexual assault – sexual conduct by one person upon another without the victim’s consent.
• Assault –  intentionally placing another in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm or attempting to use physical force against another
• Aggravated assault – assault involving a deadly weapon.
• Battery – the willful use of force upon another without the victim’s consent
• Domestic violence offenses – physical harm by one household family member upon another – often involving spouses.
• Harassment – an intentional pattern of conduct intended to annoy, alarm or terrorize another, likely to cause emotional distress.
• Stalking – conduct or a pattern of conduct in which the victim is threatened, followed, harassed or otherwise placed in fear of their safety.
• Hate crimes – an offense of harm motivated by the offender’s bias, which may include bias against a religion, race, group, disability, ethnicity or those of a particular sexual orientation.
• Injury to pregnant women –  commission of a felony in which the conduct is likely to result in miscarriage or stillbirth