30 VAWA CRIMES 1. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: A felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed by: (1) a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the reporting party; (2) a person with whom the reporting party shares a child in common; (3) a person who is cohabitating with, or has cohabitated with, the reporting party as a spouse or intimate partner; (4) a person similarly situated to a spouse of the reporting party under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred; or (5) any other person against an adult or youth survivor who is protected from that person?s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred. 2. DATING VIOLENCE: An act of violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. For this purpose, the existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the reporting party?s statement and with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship. Dating violence includes without limitation sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse, but excludes acts covered under the definition of ?domestic violence. 3. STALKING: Engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person, including without limitation by means of following, monitoring, observing, surveilling, threatening, or communicating to or about a person or interfering with a person?s property, that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person?s safety or the safety of others or suffer significant mental suffering or anguish that may, but does not necessarily require, medical or other professional treatment or counseling. HATE CRIMES TAMIU and the RELLIS Academic Alliance strives to foster a safe and healthy learning environment that embodies diversity and inclusion of all members of the combined TAMIU community. The hate crime statistics are separated by category of prejudice. The numbers for most of the specific crime categories are part of the overall statistics reported for each year. The only exceptions to this are the addition of larceny, theft, simple assault, intimidation, and any vandalism. If a hate crime occurs where there is an incident involving intimidation, vandalism, larceny, simple assault, or other bodily injury, the law requires that the statistic be reported as a hate crime even though there is no requirement to report the crime classification in any other area of the compliance document. Note: A hate-related crime is not a separate, distinct crime, but is the commission of a criminal offense, which was motivated by the offender?s bias. For example, a subject assaults a victim, which is a crime. If the facts of the case indicate that the offender was motivated to commit the offense because of his/her bias against the victim?s race, sexual orientation, gender, religion, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, or disability, the assault is then also classified as a hate crime. ADDITIONAL HATE CRIME DEFINITIONS. In addition to any of the Part 1 crimes above, the following acts are now reportable as Hate Crimes, when motivated by prejudice on account of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, or disability. 1. LARCENY THEFT: The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession or constructive possession of another. 2. SIMPLE ASSAULT: An unlawful physical attack by one person upon another where neither the offender displays a weapon, nor the victim suffers obvious severe or aggravated bodily injury involving apparent broken bones, loss of teeth, possible internal injury, severe laceration, or loss of consciousness. 3. INTIMIDATION: To unlawfully place another person in reasonable fear of bodily harm through the use of threatening words and/or other conduct, but without displaying a weapon or subjecting the victim to actual physical attack. 4. DESTRUCTION/DAMAGE/VANDALISM OF PROPERTY (EXCEPT ?ARSON?): To willfully or maliciously destroy, damage, deface, or otherwise injure real or personal property without the consent of the owner or the person having custody or control of the subject?s property. THE BIASES Any of the aforementioned offenses (except for manslaughter by negligence), and any other crime reported to local police agencies or to a CSA that is a criminal offense and manifests evidence that the victim was intentionally selected because of the perpetrator?s bias against the victim.
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