var glossary = [{"Word":"Acquaintance / non-stranger rape","Definition":"Non-consensual sexual penetration between persons who know one another. This group includes classmates, romantic partners, co-workers, teammates, friends, neighbors, work colleagues and relatives. The incident may involve threats, intimidation, coercion, physical force and/or substances to create memory loss. This is also often referred to as “date rape,” especially when the two parties have agreed to a romantic relationship, but the survivor has not consented to sexual intercourse. ","Source":"National Collegiate Athletic Association"},
{"Word":"Adjudication","Definition":"Process of deciding or resolving a dispute between two parties.","Source":"University of California, San Francisco / Sexual Violence Prevention and Response"},
{"Word":"Aggravated assault","Definition":"An attack or attempted attack with a weapon, regardless of whether an injury occurred and an attack without a weapon when serious injury results.","Source":""},
{"Word":"Alcohol and drug-facilitated sexual assault","Definition":"Sexual assault is considered alcohol and drug-facilitated when the survivor is unable to give consent because she or he is under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. These substances inhibit the survivor’s ability to resist the sexual act and sometimes even prevent them from remembering the event. ","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Assault","Definition":"An unlawful physical attack or threat of attack. Assaults may be classified as aggravated or simple. Rape, attempted rape and sexual assaults are excluded from this category, as well as robbery and attempted robbery. The severity of assaults ranges from minor threats to nearly fatal incidents.","Source":""},
{"Word":"Battery","Definition":"The infliction of unlawful personal violence on another person, even where the contact does no physical harm.","Source":""},
{"Word":"Bullying","Definition":"A term to describe the infliction of emotional and/or physical, or sexual, harm to another person, usually during a span of time, with the intent to overpower the individual. Often, emotional distress and/or depression occurs as a result of intense bullying over time.","Source":"National Collegiate Athletic Association"},
{"Word":"Child sexual abuse","Definition":"Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity, period. Child sexual abuse does not need to include physical contact between a perpetrator and a child.","Source":"RAINN"},
{"Word":"Commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC)","Definition":"This refers to a range of crimes and activities involving the sexual abuse or exploitation of a child for the financial benefit of any person or in exchange for anything of value (including monetary and non-monetary benefits) given or received by any person.","Source":"Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention"},
{"Word":"Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD; or complex trauma disorder)","Definition":"A psychological disorder thought to occur as a result of repetitive, prolonged trauma involving sustained abuse or abandonment by a caregiver or other interpersonal relationships with an uneven power dynamic.","Source":""},
{"Word":"Consent","Definition":"Words or overt actions by a person who is legally or functionally competent to give informed approval, indicating a freely given agreement to have sexual intercourse or sexual contact.","Source":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},
{"Word":"Date rape","Definition":"An act of nonconsensual sexual penetration that occurs during an event that would be termed a date, which includes a broad range of social interactions. Date rape can occur whether there has been consensual sex on previous dates between the two persons. The term non-stranger rape is the preferred term.","Source":"National Collegiate Athletic Association"},
{"Word":"Domestic violence","Definition":"It is the willful intimidation, physical assault, battery, sexual assault, and/or other abusive behavior as part of a systematic pattern of power and control perpetrated by one intimate partner against another. It includes physical violence, sexual violence, psychological violence and emotional abuse.","Source":"National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV)"},
{"Word":"Exhibitionistic disorder","Definition":"Exhibitionistic disorder involves exposing one’s genitals or sexual organs to a non-consenting person. This condition falls under the psychiatric category of paraphilic disorders, which refer to persistent and intense atypical sexual arousal patterns that are accompanied by clinically significant distress or impairment. Exhibitionistic disorder was referred to as exhibitionism in previous versions of the DSM. ","Source":"Psychology Today"},
{"Word":"Female genital mutilation","Definition":"Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.","Source":"World Health Organization"},
{"Word":"Hazing","Definition":"Any action taken or any situation created intentionally that causes embarrassment, harassment or ridicule and risks emotional and/or physical harm to members of a group or team, whether new or not, regardless of the person’s willingness to participate.","Source":"National Collegiate Athletic Association"},
{"Word":"Incest","Definition":"The term refers to any sexual activity that takes place between non-spouse family members or close relatives.","Source":"Legal Dictionary"},
{"Word":"Intimate partner violence","Definition":"This describes physical violence, sexual violence, stalking and psychological aggression, including coercive acts, by a current or former intimate partner.","Source":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},
{"Word":"Marital rape","Definition":"Marital rape refers to the non-consensual vaginal, anal or oral penetration of the body of another person where the penetration is of a sexual nature, with any bodily part or with an object, as well as to any other non-consensual acts of a sexual nature, by a spouse or ex-spouse or by a former or current partner with whom a victim of rape is or has been living in a partnership recognised by the national law. Causing a spouse or ex-spouse or a former or current partner to engage in non-consensual acts of a sexual nature with a third person is also considered as marital rape.","Source":"European Institute for Gender Equality"},
{"Word":"Molestation","Definition":"Sexual abuse can happen across all ages, but molestation is strictly limited to younger children. Because a child’s penis or vagina is too small for physical penetration, molestation occurs when the child is forced to perform oral sex, touched in an inappropriate manner and/or made to watch the adult masturbate. Sexual abuse happens over a longer period of time and involves actual physical penetration, in addition to everything that is included in molestation. ","Source":"Kids Live Safe"},
{"Word":"Non-forcible sex offenses","Definition":"Sex acts that include incest and statutory rape, as defined in the Clery Act.","Source":"National Collegiate Athletic Association"},
{"Word":"Oral copulation by force or fear","Definition":"Oral copulation by force or fear occurs when a victim is forced to perform oral sex on a perpetrator, receive oral sex from a perpetrator, or both. This crime is more punishable when perpetrated against a minor. With oral sex, consent is always necessary.","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Penetration","Definition":"Penetration involves physical insertion, however slight, of the penis into the vulva; contact between the mouth and the penis, vulva, or anus; or physical insertion of a hand, finger, or other object into the anal or genital opening of another person.","Source":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"},
{"Word":"Quid pro quo","Definition":" Meaning “this for that,” this is a form of sexual harassment that occurs when it is stated or implied that an academic or employment decision depends upon whether the student or employee submits to conduct of a sexual nature. ","Source":"University of Michigan"},
{"Word":"Rape","Definition":"Forced sexual intercourse including both psychological coercion as well as physical force that includes penetration by the offender(s). It includes attempted rapes, male as well as female victims and both heterosexual and same-sex rape. Attempted rape includes verbal threats of rape.","Source":"Bureau of Justice Statistics"},
{"Word":"Ritual abuse","Definition":"Ritual abuse is an “extreme, sadistic form of abuse of children and non-consenting adults. It is methodical, systematic sexual, physical, emotional and spiritual abuse, which often includes mind control, torture, and highly illegal and immoral activities such as murder, child pornography and prostitution.” ","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Same-sex sexual assault","Definition":"Same-sex sexual assault is sexual assault where the perpetrator and the survivor have the same gender identity. Instances of same sex rape often occur during prison rape and wartime rape. It is important to remember that anyone can be the perpetrator or survivor of sexual assault regardless of gender.","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Serial rape","Definition":"A serial rapist is a rapist who rapes more than one person over a period of time. Some serial rapists target children. The terms sexual predator, repeat rape and multiple offending can also be used to describe the activities of those who commit a number of consecutive rapes, but remain unprosecuted when self-reported in research.","Source":"Wikipedia"},
{"Word":"Sex trafficking","Definition":"Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists globally. Sex traffickers use violence, threats, lies, debt bondage and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in commercial sex acts against their will.","Source":"Polaris"},
{"Word":"Sexual assault","Definition":"A wide range of victimizations, separate from rape or attempted rape. These crimes include attacks or attempted attacks generally involving unwanted sexual contact between victim and offender. Sexual assaults may or may not involve force and include such things as grabbing or fondling. It also includes verbal threats.","Source":"Bureau of Justice Statistics"},
{"Word":"Sexual assault depicted in pornography","Definition":"Pornography, different from erotica, can involve using men, women and children for commercial gain. Not all pornography depicts sexual assault. However, there are different forms of pornography and some can include depictions of sexual assault.","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Sexual assault in prostitution","Definition":"Prostitution is the exchange of sexual activity for money, drugs, food, shelter or other forms of payment. Prostitution is not sexual assault. Many people choose to be prostitutes and engage in consensual sex in exchange for payment. However, some women and men may not choose to be prostitutes and instead may be coerced into their situation or feel they must engage in prostitution to survive.","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"},
{"Word":"Sexual harassment","Definition":"Sexual harassment is defined by law and includes requests for sexual favors, sexual advances or other sexual conduct when: submission is either explicitly or implicitly a condition affecting academic or employment decisions; the behavior is sufficiently severe or pervasive as to create an intimidating, hostile or repugnant environment; or the behavior persists despite objection by the person to whom the conduct is directed.","Source":"University of Michigan"},
{"Word":"Sexual misconduct","Definition":"While a prostitute is exchanging sexual activity for money, sexual assault can occur. A prostitute may be physically brutalized, beaten, burned or threatened by a customer and they may be forced to engage in sexual activities to which they did not consent.","Source":"National Institute of Justice"},
{"Word":"Sexual violence","Definition":"Sexual violence is defined as any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, unwanted sexual comments or advances, or acts to traffic, or otherwise directed, against a person’s sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting, including but not limited to home and work. ","Source":"World Health Organisation"},
{"Word":"Stalking","Definition":"When a person repeatedly engages in conduct directed at a specific person that places that person in reasonable fear of his or her safety or the safety of others.","Source":"National Institute of Justice"},
{"Word":"Statutory rape","Definition":"Sexual intercourse with a person who has not yet reached the age of consent (determined by state law), whether or not the sexual act is against that person’s will. ","Source":"Cornell Law School"},
{"Word":"Stranger sexual assault","Definition":"Stranger sexual assault is sexual assault committed by a perpetrator that the survivor does not know. This can include any unwanted visual, verbal or physical sexual contact.","Source":"University of California, Santa Barbara"}];