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sexual violence  

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  • Over the last three decades, the number and intensity of acts of sexual violence worldwide, but especially in the United States, have increasingly become the focus of public concern. Sexual violence is a mixture of sexual pleasure and aggression (some acts of which can be fatal). [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Sexual Violence]

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