61 NSU STUDENT HANDBOOK 2023-24 4) institutional resources to assist in reporting incidents and preserving evidence; and 5) institutional and community resources to assist victims. 3. As used in this policy, A. Dating violence means violence committed by a person who is or has been in a social relationship of a romantic or intimate nature with the victim. 1) The existence of such a relationship shall be determined based on the reporting party’s statement and with consideration of the length of the relationship, the type of relationship, and the frequency of interaction between the persons involved in the relationship. 2) For the purposes of this definition, a) Dating violence includes, but is not limited to, sexual or physical abuse or the threat of such abuse. b) Dating violence does not include acts covered under the definition of domestic violence. B. Domestic violence means 1) a felony or misdemeanor crime of violence committed a) By a current or former spouse or intimate partner of the victim; b) By a person with whom the victim shares a child in common; c) By a person who is cohabitating with, or has cohabitated with, the victim as a spouse or intimate partner; d) By a person similarly situated to a spouse of the victim under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred, or e) By any other person against an adult or youth victim who is protected from that person’s acts under the domestic or family violence laws of the jurisdiction in which the crime of violence occurred. 2) For purposes of this section violent crimes are determined under the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program, which classifies four offenses involving involve force or threat of force as violent crimes: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault, as set forth in 34 C.F.R. part 668 Appendix A to Subpart D of Part 668—Crime Definitions in Accordance With the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program: a) Murder and Nonnegligent Manslaughter means the willful (nonnegligent) killing of one human being by another. b) Rape means the penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim. c) Robbery means the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care, custody, or control of a person or persons by force or threat of force or violence or by putting the victim in fear. d) Aggravated Assault means an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury. This type of assault usually is accompanied by the use of a weapon or by means likely to produce death or great bodily harm. (It is not necessary that injury result from an aggravated assault when a
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