Los Angeles & Van Nuys Sex Crimes Defense Attorney

What is a sex crime?
Sex crimes are forms of human sexual behavior that are crimes. Someone who commits a sex crime is said to be a sex offender. Some sex crimes are crimes of violence that involve sex. Others are violations of social taboos, such as incest, sodomy, indecent exposure, or exhibitionism. There is much variation among cultures as to what is considered a crime or not, and in what ways or to what extent crimes are punished.

Western cultures are often far more tolerant of certain sexual acts that have traditionally been held to be crimes in other cultures, such as oral sex or cross-dressing. By contrast, many cultures with strong religious traditions consider a far broader range of sexual activities to be serious crimes. As a general rule, the law in many countries often intervenes in sexual activity involving young or adolescent children below the legal age of consent, non-consensual deliberate displays or illicit watching of sexual activity, sex with close relatives ("incest''), harm to animals, acts involving the deceased (necrophilia), risk of abuse in certain professional relationships, and harassment, nuisance, fear, injury, or assault of a sexual nature. Separately, the law usually regulates or controls the censorship of pornographic or obscene material as well.

Common Sex Crimes in Los Angeles & Van Nuys
The activities listed below often carry a condition of illegality if acted upon:

• Rape, lust, murder, and other forms of sexual assault and sexual abuse
• Child sexual abuse
• Statutory rape
• Marital rape
• Obscenity
• Human trafficking
• Frotteurism: sexual arousal through rubbing oneself against a non-consenting
  stranger in public
• Exhibitionism and voyeurism, if deliberate and non-consensual, called
  "indecent exposure" and "peeping tom" respectively in this context.
• Incest between close relatives - laws on what is permitted and not
  permitted vary widely.
• Telephone scatologia: making obscene telephone calls for the purpose of
  sexual arousal
• Sex with animals
• Sexual harassment
• Sexual acts by people in a position of trust (such as teachers, doctors and
  police officers) towards any person they are involved with professionally.
• Extra-marital relations are illegal in some places. In Islamic law, it is
  illegal under the term Zina (See also Polygamy).
• Public order crimes are crimes that interrupt the flow of daily life and
  business according to local community standards. Public order crimes include paraphilia (deviancies).
  

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