Assault terminology (Criminal law) (1 Viewer)

[47.46.45]

Hey guys,
We're doing assault in Crim at the moment, and the lecture uses the term "psychic assault" for creating an apprehension of immediate violence in the victim (ie, assault under civil law) and "physical assault" for actual unlawful contact (ie, battery under civil law).
I think both her terms sound dodgy (even though they're valid) so I've adopted "Battery Assault" for physical assault. Now I'm trying to come up with a decent term for psychic assault and the best I can come up with is "non-physical". Can you guys think of any classy names like "s32 assault" or something that sound better than psychic assault?
Cheers,
-Sam

 

[Frigid]

ESP assault?

 

[Xytech]

physical and non physical is fine imo

 

[melsc]

I generally go with physical/non-physical -psychic sounds weird.

 

[47.46.45]

psychic sounds weird.

I'll say. I thought it was just my lecturer being stupid but then it was in the text too.

 

[melsc]

What text?
I don't remember comming across it Brown et al.

 

[MichaelJackson2]

why do they still teach psychic assault? it's not like the police care. a mate of mine was "assaulted" when some dude accelerated his car towards him and screeched on the brakes a few metres b4 hitting him just to freak him out - the police basically said "the fella drove towards him, stopped and drove away. he didn't commit a crime". lol.

 

[ari89]