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A voluntary partnership between law enforcement agencies and broadcasters to activate an urgent news bulletin in the most serious child abduction cases. |
Amber plan |
Death from accidental asphyxiation as a result of masochistic activities of the deceased. Also called sexual asphyxia. |
Autoerotic death |
The clinical term for the mental difficulties sustained by a physically abused child. |
Battered child syndrome |
The sexually explicit visual depiction of a minor (as defined by statute); includes photographs, negatives, slides, magazines, movies, videotapes, and computerized images. |
Child Pornography |
Drugs that facilitate rape by debilitating the victim; they include Rohypnol, GHB, and many depressants and benzodiazepines. |
Date rape drugs |
Being forced to work against one’s will through actual or implied threats of physical harm. |
Forced labor |
Entails forced exploitation of a person for labor and services and needs not entail the physical movement of a person. |
Human trafficking |
The taking of a child less than one year of age by a nonfamily member; classified by the FBI as kidnapping, although the motive is usually to possess the child rather than to use the child as a means for something else. |
Infant abduction |
An amendment to the Jacob Wetterling act, legislation requiring that states disclose information about registered sex offenders to the public. |
Megan’s law |
A psychological disorder in which a parent or caretaker attempts to elicit medical attention for himself or herself by injuring or inducing illness in a child. |
Munchausen by proxy syndrome |
Person is compelled by force or fear to work in order to pay off a debt. |
Peonage |
An analysis of a decedent's thoughts, feelings, and behavior, conducted through interviews with persons who knew him or her, to determine whether a death was an accident or suicide. |
Psychological autopsy |
The crime of having sexual relations with a person against her or his will; with a person who is unconscious or under the influence of alcohol; or with someone who is insane, feeble-minded, or under the age of consent. |
Rape |
An intervention approach in which patrol officers are trained in the principles and tactics of rapid deployment for critical incidents so that responding officers can take action immediately rather than wait for a SWAT team. |
Quick Action Deployment |
A benzodiazepine used to perpetrate sexual attacks; mixed into a victim's food or drink, can induce sedation, memory impairment, or unconsciousness, leaving the victim unaware of the attack. Also called flunitrazepam. |
Rohypnol |
Severe intracranial trauma caused by the deliberate application of violent force to a child. |
Shaken baby syndrome |
A person who molests children because the opportunity exists to do so or because of his or her inadequacy, regressed personality, or desire for experimentation; does not have a sexual preference for children. |
Situational child molester |
Occurs when someone is paid to assist another in the illegal crossing of borders. |
Smuggling |
Visa available for immigrants who can show they are victims of a wide range of crimes including substantial physical or psychological abuse. |
T-Visa |
Visa for victims who self-petition to stay in the US for up to four years if they can show they have been a victim of human trafficking. |
U-Visa |