Mount Ida College

Hate Crimes: Any crime defined below that manifests evidence of prejudice based on race, religion, sexual orientation, or ethnicity and must be listed as per 28 U.S.C. 534.

Murder: The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another.

Manslaughter: The killing of a human being through gross negligence and without intent.

Robbery: The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person(s) by force or threat of force or violence and/or putting the victim in fear.

Aggravated Assault: An unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or permanent and severe bodily harm. (It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could and probably results in serious personal injury if the crime were successfully completed.)

Burglary: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft. For reporting purposes this definition includes: unlawful entry with intent to commit larceny or felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking; safecracking; and all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned.

Motor Vehicle Theft: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (Also classified as a motor vehicle theft are all cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access even though the vehicles are later abandoned – including joyriding.)

Arson: Any 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.

Liquor Law Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances prohibiting the manufacture, sale, transportation, furnishing, or possession of intoxicating liquors. *Drunkenness and Driving under the Influence are not included.

Drug Law Violations: The violation of the laws or ordinances relating to the Controlled Substances Act.

Weapons Violations: The violation of laws or ordinances relating to the possession or use of dangerous weapons as defined by statute.

Forcible Sex Offenses

Rape: Having sexual intercourse or unnatural sexual intercourse with a person and compelling such person to submit by force and against his/her will, or compelling such person to submit by threat of bodily harm or against the person’s will where the person is incapacitated and unable to give consent.

Sodomy: Oral or anal intercourse with a person and compelling such person to submit by force and against his/her will, or compelling such person to submit by threat of bodily harm or if the person is incapacitated and unable to give consent.

Fondling: The actual touching of a person’s genitals or mammary area and compelling such person to submit by force and against his/her will, or compelling such person to submit by threat of bodily harm or if the person is incapacitated and unable to give consent.

Sexual Assault with an object: The use of an object or instrument to penetrate, however slightly, the genital or anal opening of another person and compelling such person to submit by force and against his/her will, or compelling such person to submit by threat of bodily harm or if the person is incapacitated and unable to give consent.

Incest: Non-forcible sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees of wherein marriage is prohibited by law.

Statutory Rape: Non-forcible sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent.