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 Assault is a crime of violence against another person. In some jurisdictions, assault is used to refer to the actual violence, while in other jurisdictions (e.g. some in the United States, England, and Wales), assault refers only to the threat of violence, while the actual violence is battery. Simple assaults do not involve deadly weapons; aggravated assaults often do.
Assault is often defined to include not only violence, but any
physical contact with another person without their consent. When
assault is defined like this, exceptions are provided to cover such
things as normal social behavior (for example, patting someone on the
back).
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