Campus Police - Definition of Domestic Violence

Definition of Domestic Violence

Domestic violence means the occurrence of one or more of the following criminal offenses upon a person protected under the Prevention of Domestic Violence Act:

Homicide	N.J.S.A. 2C:11-1	Assault	N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1
Terroristic threats	N.J.S.A. 2C:12-3	Kidnapping	N.J.S.A. 2C:13-1
Criminal Restraint	N.J.S.A. 2C:13-2	False imprisonment	N.J.S.A. 2C:13-3
Sexual assault	N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2	Lewdness	N.J.S.A. 2C:14-4
Criminal sexual contact	N.J.S.A. 2C:14-3	Criminal mischief	N.J.S.A. 2C:17-3
Burglary	N.J.S.A. 2C:18-2	Criminal trespass	N.J.S.A. 2C:18-3
Harassment	N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4	Stalking	N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10

Stalking has been added as an enumerated offense. Stalking is defined in N.J.S.A. 2C:12-10b as follows:

A person is guilty of stalking, a crime of the fourth degree, if he purposely and repeatedly follows another person and engages in a course of conduct or makes a credible threat with the intent of annoying or placing that person in reasonable fear of death or bodily injury.

Harassment is defined in N.J.S.A. 2C:33-4 as follows:

...a person commits a petty disorderly persons offense if, with purpose to harass another, he:

a. Makes, or causes to be made, a communication or communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language, or any other manner likely to cause annoyance or alarm;

b. Subjects another to striking, kicking, shoving, or other offensive touching, or threatens to do so; or

c. Engages in any other course of alarming conduct or of repeatedly committed acts with purpose to alarm or seriously annoy such other person.

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