Bodily harm
The medical idea of (grievous) bodily harm is more specific than legal ideas of assault or violence in general, and distinct from property damage.
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Grievous - Assault - Violence - Property damage
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It refers to lasting harm done to the body, human or otherwise, although in its legal sense it is exclusively defined as lasting harm done to living human beings. It deliberately does not admit social, ideological, or psychological concepts of violence, but admits forms of property damage that a reasonable person would consider likely to cause lasting bodily harm; e.g., turning off a pacemaker or respirator, or ejecting someone into a cold wilderness in winter with no other source of shelter.
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Body - Violence - Pacemaker
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Police actions are usually defined as those motivated by reducing bodily harm to "innocent" victims, even if violence or property damage is required to do so. The definition of "innocent" is of course dependent on an ideology or due process of law. In general, police also seek to reduce bodily harm done to suspects as well, although this is a lesser concern, much less in some societies.
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Police actions - Violence - Ideology - Due process of law
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Doing bodily harm outside the legal process of a given society is usually considered crime, war, or "terrorism", a 20th century term describing various styles of guerilla and asymmetric warfare. In general, public opinion in the developed world does not support definitions of "war" or "terrorism" that do not refer directly to doing of bodily harm.
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Crime - War - Terrorism - 20th century - Guerilla - Asymmetric warfare
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Systematically reducing, channelling, or eliminating deliberate bodily harm from human public relationships is a major focus of political science.
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Reduction of accidental bodily harm is a function of engineering that rises to special prominence in safety engineering and biomedical engineering.
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Engineering - Safety engineering - Biomedical engineering
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Latest news on bodily harm
Man charged over buttock stabbing
A man is charged with causing grievous bodily harm after a teenager is stabbed in the buttocks in Newcastle.
Rise in violent crime due to police undercounting, Home Office says
The government today blamed inaccurate police record keeping for a 22% rise in the number of the most serious violent crimes in England and Wales.The claim is likely to provoke a row over the data between the police and the Home Office.Police forces recorded 5,500 serious violent crimes between April and June this year, compared with 4,512 over the same period last year.The crimes include murder, manslaughter, infanticide, attempted murder and grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent.The biggest increase was in the number of cases of GBH with intent, which rose from 4,038 to 5,073 - an increase of 26% .Today, the Home Office today released a statement saying the steep rise was partly due to a minority of police forces wrongly recording GBH with intent in categories of other violent crime. Jacqui Smith, the home secretary, said that although there had been a rise in the most serious violent crimes, the overall number of violent crimes had gone down."Today's statistics show you are less likely to be a victim of violent crime," she told Sky News.Smith blamed the sharp rise in the number of GBH with intent cases on confusion over what the offence covered.She said some police forces had not classified it as a serious violent crime if someone was attacked with a broken bottle but not seriously injured. Officials said 13 forces were asked to re-examine their figures after they discovered that some serious assaults were being recorded in a lower category of offence.The Home Office estimated that "at least two thirds of the 26% increase in GBH with intent ? can be accounted for" by the offence being wrongly recorded before new guidance clarifying what it covered was issued in February .The department admitted the undercounting could have been going on for more than 10 years.The figures showed a 10% drop in the number of murders from 202 in April to June 2007 to 182 in April to June this year.Crimeguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Keegan Backs Barton's Imminent Return
Disgraced Newcastle United midfielder Joey Barton is due to return to the club after serving time behind bars for assault, occasioning actual bodily harm after attacking a teenager during the 2007 Christmas period. Barton will return to Premier League fold with a 4 month suspended sentence hanging over his head after he pleaded guilty to assaulting former team-mate Ousmane Dabo,
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