Criminal harassment is a good example of an offence that certainly can cause a person to feel traumatized and fearful, but doesn't involve the physical application of force. Child pornography offences, for instance, there's a way to look at them such that they are violent offences, but there's another way to characterize them such as they aren't. So there's a characterization challenge.
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