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    gave him his nickname after the first five victims were found in the Green River. He strangled his victims, usually by hand but sometimes using ligatures...
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    Supreme Court of the United States first recognized the rights of crime victims to make a victim impact statement during the sentencing phase of a criminal...
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    dozens of young women and girls during the 1970s. After more than a decade of denials, he confessed to 30 murders. The total number of his victims is likely...
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  • personal gain, personal gratification, and the enjoyment of exercising power and control. The victims of this behavior are often subject to psychological, physical...
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  • DARVO (an acronym for "deny, attack, and reverse victim & offender") is a reaction that perpetrators of wrongdoing, such as sexual offenders, may display...
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    of the victim, and minimum age of the defendant. Each is described below." - The mathematics does not add up in this section as there are 50 states,...
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  • the power rapist feeds on power and domination of the victim. Hence, their offenses may become repetitive and compulsive. They may commit a series of rapes...
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    political party. It initially supported expansive presidential power, the interests of slave states, agrarianism, and geographical expansionism, while opposing...
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  • periods.[verification needed] During the 1990s many states differentiated between three categories of victims: Unmarried persons, who had full protection by...
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    global scale. It enables police to have sufficient power to "return money to crime victims" in instances of swindling or fraud. Civil forfeiture laws were...
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  • Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. There is historical...
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    directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces. The power of the presidency has grown...
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  • The United States has been involved in 113 military conflicts. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the...
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    describes the recruitment and transportation of victims, "means", which includes coercion, fraud, or abuse of power, and "purpose", which includes exploitation...
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  • organ of another person, without the consent of the victim." While definitions and terminology of rape vary by jurisdiction in the United States, the FBI...
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    list of lynching victims in the United States. While the definition has changed over time, lynching is often defined as the summary execution of one or...
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    Order: Special Victims Unit follows the detectives of the Special Victims Unit as they investigate and prosecute sexually based crimes. Some of the episodes...
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  • Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, disability or sexual orientation...
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    The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated...
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  • the abuser and the victim such that the abuser is in a position of power and authority and the victim is not. Inequality in power can produce pathologies...
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    worst example of serial murder in United States history. Corll's victims were typically lured with an offer of a party or a lift to one of the various addresses...
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    populations have more voting power than those in larger states. Because the number of electors each state appoints is equal to the size of its congressional delegation...
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  • exposure of a body or sexual activity) without consent by the victim and without the use of force by the perpetrator as a crime, while other states do not...
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  • Victims' rights are legal rights afforded to victims of crime. These may include the right to restitution, the right to a victims' advocate, the right...
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  • list of the most notable mass shootings in the United States that have occurred since 1900. Mass shootings are incidents involving several victims of firearm-related...
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    with 124 snakes in his home died of a snake bite, officials say". USA Today, April 14, 2022. "Smith Lake snake bite victim dies at Huntsville Hospital"....
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    involves the United States decoupling from the global economy and having the country become more self-contained and exerting its power through individual...
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    political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors. Power does not exclusively...
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  • uses the term victim feminism in her 1993 book Fire With Fire. Wolf contrasts victim feminism with power feminism. In her view, victim feminists present...
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  • Power Rangers Samurai is the eighteenth season of the children's television series Power Rangers, which is based on the Japanese Super Sentai Series. The...
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