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When one person physically harms another, that person’s violent conduct is generally (but not always) punishable as a crime. Through laws enacted by state legislatures and Congress, society uses the following criteria to rank the seriousness of violent crimes:

 The type of violence

 The severity of the violence

 The harm the violence caused

 Whether the offender intended to cause harm

In the following sections, I offer an overview of various types of violent crimes, including what each crime entails, who’s most likely to commit each crime, and how severe the punishment for each crime is.