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Sexual assault (ICCS 03012)
“SEXUAL ASSAULT” means an “unwanted sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act, or contact or communication with unwanted sexual attention not amounting to rape”.
INCLUSIONS: Physical sexual assault (030121): Drug-facilitated sexual assault; unwanted groping or fondling; sexual assault by abuse of position. Non-physical sexual assault (030122): sexual harassment, threat of a sexual nature). Sexual assault committed against a marital partner against her/his will; Sexual assault against a helpless person; Other sexual assault not elsewhere classified (030129): Voyeurism.
EXCLUSIONS: Rape (03011); Acts of abuse of a position of vulnerability, power or trust, or use of force or threat of force, for profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the prostitution or sexual acts of a person (0302); coercion (0205); prostitution offences (08021); pornography offences (08022), and 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 for sexual exploitation (02041); harassment and stalking (0208).

[Source: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, p.51. incl. footnote 81. Web: https://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]