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| Soapy apperance of a dead body left for weeks in a hot moist location. |
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| Postmortem cooling process of the body. |
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| Death or uncsciousness resulting from insufficient oxygen to support the red blood cells reaching the body tissues and the brain. |
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| Accidental death from suffocation, strangulation or chemical asphyxia resulting from a combination of ritualistic behavior, oxygen deprivation, danger and fantasy for sexual gratification. |
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| Occurs in certain muscle groups and can indicate suicide. Usually occurs when the victim is holding something at the time of death and the hand closes tightly around the object due to the stress and tension of dying. Does not disappear as rigor mortis does. |
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| Includes murder and mansluaghter and is a felony. |
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| Acts of commission or omission creating situations resulting in unreasonable risk of death or great bodily harm. |
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| Nonfatal wound incurred by victims as they attempt to ward off attackers. Indicative of murder. |
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| Situations that are open to interpretation investigations; there may be two or more meanings; the case may be presented as either a homicide or a suicide depending upon the circumstances. |
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| Unintentional, truly accidental killing of another person. |
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| Stems from hurt feelings, anger or rage, in contrast to instrumental violence, whicvh is goal-directed predatory behavior used to exert control. |
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| Premeditated killing of another person or killing someone while committing or attempting to commit a felony. |
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| Extremely volatile emotional condition. |
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| Less severe cutting marks caused by an individual's attempts to build up nerve before making a fatal cutting would; indicates suicide. |
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| Killing of one person by another. |
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| Goal-directed predatory behavior used to exert control, in contrast to expressive violence, which stems of hurt feeling, anger or rage. |
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| Killing someone through extreme, culpable negligence; unitentional homicide. |
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| Killing another person under authorization of the law. |
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| Dark blue or purple discoloration of the body where blood has drained to the lowest level after death. |
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| Sex-related homicide involving a sadistic, deviant, assault, where the killer-depersonalizes the victim, sexually mutilates the body and may displace body parts. |
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| Element if first- and second-degree murder; implies ill will, wickedness or cruelty or recklessness. |
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| Unlawful killing of another person with no prior malice; can be voluntary or involuntary. |
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| When multiple victims are killed in a single incident by one or a few suspects. |
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| Complete dehydration of all body tissues that occurs when a cadaver is left in an extremely dry, hot area. |
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| Premeditated killing of another person or killing someone while committing or attempting to commit a felony. |
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| Includes excusable and justifiable homicide. |
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| Considering, planning or preparing for an act, no matter how briefly, before committing it. |
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| Stiffening of the joints of the body after death because of partial skeletal muscle contraction. |
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| Intent to cause the death of another, but without premediation. |
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| Killing of three or more victims with emotional time breaks between the killings. |
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| Intentionally taking one's own life. |
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| Situation where a person decides he or she wants to die but does not want to pull the trigger and so, therefore, creates a situation where police are forced to shoot. |
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| Death that results from an imminently dangerous act but does not involve premeditation or intent. |
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| Study of poisons. Toxicologists are consulted if food or drink poisoining is suspected. |
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| Intentionally causing the death of another person in the heat of passion. |
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| Unlawfully threatening to harm another person, actually harming another person or attempting to do so. Formerly referred to threats of or attempts to cause bodily harm, but now usually includes battery. |
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| Actually hitting or striking someone. |
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| Repeated use of the Internet, e-mail or other digital electronic commuinication to stalk another person. |
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| Pattern of behaviors involving physical, sexual, economic and emotional abuse, alopne or in combination, by an intimate partner often for the purpose of establishing and maintaining power and control over the other partner. |
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| Physical or mental mistreatment, financial exploitation and general neglect of the elderly; may include fraud as well as assault, battery and murder. |
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| Unlawful attack by one person on another to inflict severe bodily injury. |
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| Legal status wherein a document, contract, license, or court order issued anywhere in the country is legally binding and enforceable nationwide. |
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| Having the authority to take the place of the parent. Teachers usually have this right. |
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| Offenses that, in domestic violence situation involving the stame victim and suspect, can establish a pattern of events indicative of an abusive relationship. |
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| Intentionally causing another person to fear immediate bodily harm or death or intentionally inflicting or attempting to inflict bodily harm on another. Usually a misdemeanor. |
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| Constellation of variables that, in effect, influence someone to take a particular course of action. For offenders, it constitutes what they stand to lose if convicted, such as marital status, residential stability, or employment. |
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| Person who intentionally and repeatedly follows, attempts to contact, harasses or intimidates another person. |
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| The willfull or intentional commission of a series of acts that would cause reasonable person to fear death or serious bodily injuiry and that, in fact, does place the victim in fear of death or serious bodily injury. |
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| Marrying another person when one or both of the parties are already married. |
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| Allows sexual assault victims to retain their annonymity and confidentiality while sharing critical information with law enforcement. It also permits victims to gather legal information from law enforcement without having to commit immediately to an investigation. |
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| Violation of a child by lewd or lascivious acts, indecent exposure, incest or statutory rape; usually a felony. |
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| Sexual activity involving oral contact with the female genitals. |
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| Type of sexual assault where the victim knows the suspect. |
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| People who gain sexual satisfaction by exposing themselves. |
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| Sexual activity involving oral contact with the male genitals. |
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| Sexual intercourse against a person's will by use or threat of force. |
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| Sexual intercourse with another person known to be nearer of kin than first cousinl in some states whether biological or adopted. |
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| Revealing one's genitals to another person to such an extent as to shock the other's sense of decency. |
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| Usually refers to the primary genital areas, groin, inner thighs, buttocks and breasts. |
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| Acts of joining the mouth of one person with the sexual organ of another person. |
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| Person who is sexually attracted to young children. |
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| Soliciting sexual intercourse for pay. |
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| Having sexual intercourse with a person against his or her own will. |
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| The "date rape drug," a sedative that dissolves rapidly when placed in a carbonated drink and acts quickly (20 to 30 minutes) to produce physical as well as mental incapacitation after ingest. |
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| Person who receives sexual gratification from causing pain to others, often through mutilation. |
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| Fettering, binding or otherwise physically restraining, whipping or torturing for sexual gratification. |
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| Any sexual act committed without the complainant's consent for the suspect's sexual or aggressive satisfaction. |
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| Includes sexual intercourse, cunnilingus, fellatio, anal intercourse, or any other intrusion, no matter how slight, into the victim's genital, oral or anal openings by the suspect's body or by an object. An emission of semen is not required. |
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| Sexually Explicit Conduct |
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| Any type of sexual intercourse between person of the same or opposite sex, bestiality, sadomasochistic abuse, lewd exhibition or masturbation. |
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| Any form of anal or oral copulation |
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| Sexual intercourse with a minor, with or without consent. |
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| Window peeking; Peeping Tom. |
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| An adult who has either heterosexual or homosexual prefences for young boys or girls of a specific, limited age range; used synonymously with pedophile. |
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| Causing fear or feelings of unworthiness in others; with children this occurs by such means as locking them up in closets, ignoring them or constantly belittling them. |
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| Taking unfair advantage of people or using them illegally. |
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| Person who selects high school age youths as sex victims. |
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| Taking a person to another location by force, often for ransom. |
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| Touching a minor to arouse, appeal to or gratify the perpetrator's sexual desires; the touching may be done by the perpetrator or by the minor under the perpetrator's direction. |
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| Includes neglect, medical neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment. |
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| Certain individuals, including teachers, school authorities, child care personnel, camp personnel, clergy, physicians, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, psychologists, medical assistants, attorneys and social workers, who work with or treat children and are required by law to report cases of suspected neglect or abuse. |
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| Person under the legal age for becoming an adult, the most common being under the age of 16 or 18. |
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| Person who hates children, has sex with them and then brutally destroys them. |
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| Acts motivated by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in another person that would reasonably be expected to disturb, irritate or offend the victim. No touching of the victim is necessary. |
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| Involves self-induced or self-inflicted injuries. |
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| Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) |
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| A form of child abuse where the parent or adult caregiver deliberately stimulates or causes medical distress in a child. |
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| Failure to meet a child's basic needs, including housing, food, clothing, education and access to medical care. |
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| Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) |
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| Genetic disorder characterized by bones that break easily, often from little or not apparent cause. |
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| Person who is sexually attracted to young children. |
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| Beating, whipping, burning or otherwise inflicting physical harm upon a child. |
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| Conceptualizes cause of child abuse, illustrating both functional and nonfunctional families and two critical factors that contribute to a family's balance: stress and resources. |
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| Includes sexually molesting a child, performing sexual acts with a child and statutory rape and seduction. |
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| To employ, use, persuade, induce, entice or coerce a minor to engage or assist in engaging in any sexually explicit conduct; for example, prostitution and pornography. |
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| Ordinary sexual intercourse, anal intercourse, cunnilingus or fellatio committed by a nonminor with a consenting minor. |
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| Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) |
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| Tragic condition whose cause is uncertain, that takes the lives of young victims and for which parents may become suspected of child abuse. |
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| Temporary Custody without Hearing |
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| Removing a child from custody of parents or guardians for a brief period, usually 48 hours. |
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