New Jersey legal term
Serious bodily injury in New Jersey Criminal Law
Current through 2026 New Jersey legislative session
In New Jersey criminal law, “Serious bodily injury” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the New Jersey criminal code.
What does “Serious bodily injury” mean in New Jersey criminal law?
"Serious bodily injury" means bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement, or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ; c. (N.J.S.A. 2C:11-1)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Assault
- Endangering another person; offense created; degree of crime
- Hazing
- Interference with transportation
- Causing or risking widespread injury or damage
- Criminal restraint
- Disarming a law enforcement, corrections officer; crime; degrees
- False public alarms
- Manufacture, transport, disposition and defacement of weapons and dangerous instruments and appliances
- Murder
- Robbery
- Throwing bodily fluid at certain law enforcement officers deemed aggravated assault; grading, sentences
Related terms in the same statutes
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