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Definition of Sex offense
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 offense
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"FIRST SEX EXPERIENCE (a) Age at First sex offense The age at first sex offense
refers to the time that the first illicit sexual intercourse occurred, ..."
2. A Study of Women Delinquents in New York State by Mabel Ruth Fernald, Mary Holmes Stevens Hayes, Almena Dawley, Beardsley Ruml (1920)
"FIRST SEX EXPERIENCE (a) Age at First sex offense The age at first sex offense
refers to the time that the first illicit sexual intercourse occurred, ..."
3. Report of the Commission for the Investigation of the White Slave Traffic by Walter Elmore Fernald (1914)
"3 shows the age at the time of the first sex offense in 300 cases as told by the
women ... The age of fourteen was the period of first sex offense for 39, ..."
4. The School in the Home: Talks with Parents & Teachers on Intensive Child by Adolf Augustus Berle (1915)
"The age of fourteen was the period of first sex offense for 39, the largest number
beginning at ... The age at first sex offense is not stated in 59 cases. ..."
5. The School in the Home: Talks with Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child by Adolf Augustus Berle (1912)
"The age of fourteen was the period of first sex offense for 39, the largest number
beginning at ... The age at first sex offense is not stated in 59 cases. ..."
6. Eugenics and Social Welfare Bulletin by New York (State), Board of Social Welfare, Bureau of Analysis and Investigation (1917)
"CHAPTER 14 sex offense All sex matters that are learned about should be recorded,
but a woman should not be marked Sx, for a light offence, or even for the ..."
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