The ICCS class covering offenses against a living person's physical safety, liberty or peace that fall short of causing death, spanning direct physical violence, unlawful confinement, and the sustained harassment and coercive control captured by stalking, domestic violence and human trafficking. Belongs here: any offense whose harm is inflicted on, or threatened against, a specific living person's body, freedom of movement or ongoing safety, whether by direct force, confinement, exploitation or a persistent pattern of unwanted contact carried out in person or online. Does not belong here: harm of a specifically sexual nature, grouped under Sexual and Injurious Acts Against the Person, or an offense whose defining result is the victim's death. This subcategory groups Assault, Battery, Domestic Violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Cyberstalking and Human Trafficking.
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