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Definition of Sex crime
1. Noun. A statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat. "Most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"
Specialized synonyms: Molestation, Assault, Rape, Ravishment, Violation
Generic synonyms: Regulatory Offence, Regulatory Offense, Statutory Offence, Statutory Offense
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Literary usage of Sex crime
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Jehovah Himself Has Become King by Robert King (2005)
"Something similar to the horrific sex crime of Gibeah has happened among Jehovah's
Witnesses ... And as was the case of the original sex crime in Gibeah, ..."
2. Criminal Justice & Community Response to Rape by Joel Epstein (1995)
"In many offices sex crime deputies are assigned a variety of cases (both adult
and child cases, or both rape cases and other crimes against persons). ..."
3. Journal of the Statistical Society of London by Statistical Society (Great Britain) (1846)
"... found that in the male sex crime in each successive term of life, given in
the tables, decreases at the rate of 33'333 per cent., and in the female sex, ..."
4. State Justice Sourcebook Of Statistics And Research (1992)
"Separate analyses are being conducted for several different recidivism measures
and for a number of different subgroups based on region, race, sex, crime ..."
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