Intentional harm is considered one of the crimes with negative consequences that affect a person's body, health, and disrupt their normal activities for a period that may exceed twenty days or not. It is committed by the perpetrator with a deliberate criminal intent and can constitute a criminal act, a misdemeanor, or an offense. Each of these criminal acts carries a specific punishment, and the severity of the punishment depends on the criminal outcome. The more serious the criminal act and the resulting permanent disability or amputation of a body part, for example, the more severe the punishment. Intentional harm is distinguished from unintentional harm by its specific criminal intent. It is not sufficient to have knowledge of the criminal act and the intention to cause the result, but it must be the purpose to cause disability, harm, damage, or illness, and there must be a causal link between the act and the outcome.