Blunt object

A blunt object is an object which a criminal can use to strike his victim and to cause at it lesions or contusions being able to cause death. It is said that it is a weapon of defined use because used to wound or kill whereas its function is by nature very other.

It can be a question:

of natural weapons: fist, foot, nails, teeth, blow of head, etc
of impromptu weapons: iron bar, club of golf, hockey stick, bat, stone, cane, candlestick, club, handle of pickaxe, hammer, bludgeon, stone, clipboard, etc
of prepared weapons: gun of rifle, headache, American punch, stick of gun, nunchakus, etc

The Legal medicine differentiates the blunt instruments, of the sharp instruments (knives), the instruments prickles and of course of the firearms. For the little story, in 1935 at the time of a debate to the National Assembly, a deputy required of Pierre Laval the definition of the term “blunt object”, this one answered him that an object became blunt “when one is caught it on the figure”, which finally east can be the clearest definition.

The contusions can be classified by category, according to the gravity of the blow, of the first degree, for a simple Ecchymose, with the fourth degree, for wounds being accompanied by important tissue destruction or destruction by bodies, like fractures or crushings. The width of the wound depends on the size, hardness, the speed of the blunt object and the force of the blow directly carried.

At the time of crimes, the recourse to an impromptu blunt object is relatively frequent. Generally the assassin uses it without premeditation, a little by putting the hand above by chance; this is all the more true, that it is of a crime related to a crisis of fatal madness or about a victim become fatal while being denied an aggression.

According to the figures 2001 on criminality with the Quebec, a blunt object was used in 2,34% of the aggressions against the women and in 6,06% of the aggressions against the men, which would leave think that the “impromptu” aspect is less important than it seems to be.

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