Meanings
- not comparablecriminologyNot aggravated; not including factors such as violence, deadly weapons, drugs, including additional offenses, etc. that make the criminal offense more heinous or offensive.
In making this determination, we look to the evidence pertaining only to the element of aggravated robbery that distinguishes it from nonaggravated robbery.
1997, West's South Eastern Reporter, page 6802 more examples
Making nonaggravated sexual assault a strict liability crime means, in effect, that even if it would be completely impossible and unreasonable for the man to believe that the woman was engaging in the sexual act against her will (or, perhaps, that she thought the sex was insufficiently "communicative"), he would still be convicted.
2010, Leslie Francis, Date Rape: Feminism, Philosophy, and the Law, page 120However, repeated nonaggravated assault against a family member was considered a criminal offense and punishable by up to 360 hours of community service, a maximum of one year of forced labor, or a maximum of two years in prison.
2019, Kathleen Nadeau, Sangita Rayamajhi, Women and Violence: Global Lives in Focus, page 76
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