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| commonly defined as a fear of open spaces because of the risk of being separated from a trusted companion, but more recently understood as possibly a fear of panic attacks and their condequences. |
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| an eating disorder in which an individual, because of an obsessive fear of becoming overweight, literally starves; characterized by a distorted body image, a 25 percent loss of body weight, and refusal to eat; 90 to 95 percent of anoretics are females. |
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| an abnormal and constant craving for food, also known as binge-purge syndrome, in which the individual consumes large quantites of food in short periods of time followed by fasting, use of laxatives, or induced vomiting to purge the food and prevent weight gain. |
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| severe and persistent feelings of dicontent or displeasure accompanied by at least four of eight symptoms (poor appetie or weight loss, insomnia or increased sleep, psychomotor agitation or retardation, loss in interest in usual activities, loss of energy or fatigue, feelings of wortlessness, diminshed concentration, and suicidal ideation) that are present daily for at least 2 weeks without evidence of any other disorder. |
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| a personality disorder composed of a variety of symptoms that include dependency, manipulation, melodrama, and forgetfulness, as well as the exhibition of a physical illness or disorder (e.g. pain, hyperventilation, fainting, convulstions, paralysis) that has no apparent organic cause. |
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| the average number of years of life remaining to an individual at a given age. |
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| the illness rate of a given population |
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| the number of deaths in proportion to a given population |
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| an incident of sexual assault in which the victim knows or is familiar with the assailant. |
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| chivalry hypothesis (paternalism hypothesis) |
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| the belief that female offenders are afforded greater leniency before the law than their male counterparts |
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| emancipation theory (liberation theory) |
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| the theory that female crime is increasing and/or becoming more masculine in character as a result of feminism or the women's movement |
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| the sexual assault of a women by her husband |
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| when a person uses force or the threat of force to have some form of sexual intercourse (vaginal, oral, or anal) with another person. |
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| widely varying sentences imposed of offenders convicted of similar crimes, usually based on nonlegal factors, such as the offender's sex or race or ethnicity, or other inappropriate considerations. |
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| behavior considered illegal if engaged in by a juvenile, but legal if engaged by an adult. |
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