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Abstract
Any violation of established legal or moral codes in respect to sexual behavior.
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15 entry terms
- Offense, Sex
- Offenses, Sex
- Sex Offense
- Sexual Abuse
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Violence
- Abuse, Sexual
- Abuses, Sexual
- Assault, Sexual
- Assaults, Sexual
- Sexual Abuses
- Sexual Assaults
- Sexual Violences
- Violence, Sexual
- Violences, Sexual
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, ethnology, history, legislation & jurisprudence, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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- Criminology (1966-1967)
- Paraphilias (1966-1967)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Sex Offenses. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012742. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012742
- Sex Offenses. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_crime
- Sex Offenses. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5801919