Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
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;
- Example: "most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault"[syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse, sex crime, sex offense]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sex crime
n 1: 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" [syn: sexual assault, sexual abuse,
sex crime, sex offense]