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There's ample evidence that bullying has grown widespread, but the crime of rape has always been around.
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Previously, the FBI defined the crime of rape as "the carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly and against her will".
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Since then, however, a wave of serious crime, including the rape and murder of a young girl, has reopened the debate on capital punishment.
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Its founder, Julian Assange, was arrested in Britain in 2010 over allegations of rape and sex crime charges in Sweden.
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The federal Violence Against Women Act and the Victims of Crime Act provide funding to all states and territories for rape crisis hotlines, crisis counseling and victim advocacy programs.
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Their documentary examines the notorious case of five teenage boys from Harlem who were sent to prison for the 1989 assault and rape of a white middle-class woman in Central Park, a crime to which a known serial rapist confessed many years later.
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By 1995 English rates of violent crime were already far higher than America's for every major violent crime except murder and rape.
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Not only is pregnancy not evidentiary of rape, it could not even rise to the level of creating a presumption of a crime.
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Assange has not been charged with a crime, but Swedish prosecutors want to question him in connection with allegations of "unlawful coercion and sexual misconduct including rape, " according to a Supreme Court document.
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Across all of the EU, domestic burglary and car theft are falling, while robbery, violent crime like physical assault and rape, and drug trafficking have increased by about 4% in the last decade.
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