domestic violence crime

(b) Domestic Violence Offenders .— A defendant who has been convicted for the first time of a domestic violence crime shall be sentenced to a term of probation if not sentenced to a term of imprisonment. The term “domestic violence crime” means a crime of violence for which the defendant may be prosecuted in a court of the United States in which the victim or intended victim is the spouse, former spouse, intimate partner, former intimate partner, child, or former child of the defendant, or any other relative of the defendant.

Source

18 USC § 3561(b)

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Scoping language

None identified, default scope is assumed to be the parent (subchapter B) of this section.

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