sex crime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sex crime
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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“These officers were in my parents’ home,” said the woman, a former police officer who is not being identified because she is a sex crime victim.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Japan has passed laws that redefine rape and raise the age of consent in a landmark overhaul of sex crime laws.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2023
The conviction rate of prosecuted sex crime cases, she said, is more than 80 percent.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2023
Meier paints a harsh picture of incompetence within the D.A.’s sex crime unit and the New York City Police Department, but as for Morgenthau, his major mistake, in the author’s telling, was trusting them.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 8, 2022
Its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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