TAMIU Annual Security and Fire Safety Report 2023

29 PRIMARY CRIMES 1. CRIMINAL HOMICIDE A. MURDER AND NON-NEGLIGENT MANSLAUGHTER: The willful (non-negligent) killing of one human being by another. B. MANSLAUGHTER BY NEGLIGENCE: The killing of another person through gross negligence. 2. SEXUAL ASSAULT: An offense that meets the definition of rape, fondling, incest or statutory rape as used in the FBI?s Uniform Crime Reporting system. A sex offense is any sexual act directed against another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent. A. RAPE: The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus, with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. This offense includes the rape of both males and females. B. FONDLING: The touching of the private body parts of another person for the purpose of sexual gratification, without the consent of the victim, including instances where the victim is incapable of giving consent because of his/her age or because of his/her temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity. C. INCEST: Sexual intercourse between persons who are related to each other within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law. D. STATUTORY RAPE: Sexual intercourse with a person who is under the statutory age of consent. 3. ROBBERY: The taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence and/or putting the victim in fear. 4. 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 use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a gun, knife, or other weapon is used which could or probably would result in a serious potential injury if the crime were successfully completed. 5. BURGLARY: The unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or a theft; includes unlawful entry with intent to commit a larceny or felony; breaking and entering with intent to commit a larceny; housebreaking, safecracking, all attempts to commit any of the aforementioned. 6. MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT: The theft or attempted theft of a motor vehicle. (All cases where automobiles are taken by persons not having lawful access even though the vehicles are later abandoned? including joy riding are to be classified as motor vehicle thefts). 7. 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, etc.

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