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Offences against persons

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Definition

Offences against persons include homicide, voluntary or involuntary battery and injuries, offences against public decency (including pimping, rape, sexual assault), offences against families and children (including violence, ill-treatment, abandonment), as well as the taking of hostages, unlawful confinement, abduction, threats and blackmail, offences against dignity and personality, etc.