Sentence examples for category of rape from inspiring English sources

Referencing it and explaining why that was the charge does not mean you think this category of rape is acceptable.

The Swedish law calls this "sexual exploitation," the third and least severe category of rape, which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years.

But there is another category of rape accusation when a long time has passed since the alleged event, and, most important, when it happens within a family that incites more fitful, ambivalent expressions of outrage.

3.00pm: We doubt whether this actual category of rape would be rape under English law, Robertson told the court, according to Mostrous (this is the weirdest way to report court proceedings – why don't they televise it and have done with it?).

In a live radio interview on Wednesday, Clarke gave the impression there were "serious rapes and other categories of rape".

All categories of rape, including stranger rape, are up at a time when other crimes are dropping drastically.

The article cited a spike in all categories of rape, which according to police statistics occurred from March 4 to 10.

"We felt strongly that this would have created two categories of rape, that is, rape by military and militia groups and rape by civilians".

Swedish legal experts have said that the section of the Swedish penal code involved in the allegation refers to the third and least serious of three categories of rape, known as "less severe," commonly invoked when men in relationships use threats or mild degrees of force to have sex with partners against their will.

If Sweden's current criminal code is not much stricter on sexual offenses than those of other European countries, the Swedish laws may be more nuanced, by differentiating among three categories of rape and, unusually, invoking the concept of "unlawful coercion".

In Sweden, for example, there are three categories of rape -- gross, ordinary and minor (Assange is being charged with minor, or third-degree, rape) -- and in the United States, where there is no national rape law, there are some states that require evidence of "forcible compulsion" before it can be called rape.