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Sexual Violence (ICCS 0301)
"SEXUAL VIOLENCE” (0301) means any “Unwanted sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or contact or communication with unwanted sexual attention without valid consent or with consent as a result of intimidation, force, fraud, coercion, threat, deception, use of drugs or alcohol, or abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability".
INCLUSIONS: Rape (03011); sexual assault (03012); and "Other Acts of Sexual Violence" (03019).
EXCLUSIONS: sexual exploitation (0302); coercion (0205), defined as “demanding a particular course of action through the use of force, threat, intimidation, threat to reveal compromising information, or threat of defamation”; prostitution offences (08021); pornography offences (08022); other acts against public order sexual standards such as incest not amounting to rape and exhibitionism (0802); assaults and threats (0201); slavery and exploitation not amounting to injurious acts of a sexual nature (0203); trafficking in persons (TIP) for sexual exploitation (02041); harassment and stalking (0208).

[Source: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.50. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]