The National Registry of Exonerations defines an exoneration as occurring when a person who has been convicted of a crime is officially cleared after new evidence of innocence becomes available.
October 08, 2025
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Operational definition of 'exoneration' used by the National Registry of Exonerations.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2024 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) defines violent victimization as including rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.
January 01, 2024
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temporal
Definition of categories used in the NCVS violent victimization measures.
The term 'eugenics' is defined as attempts to change gene frequencies of human populations to favor socially desired traits, with techniques ranging from forced sterilization and marriage licensing at one extreme to therapeutic abortion and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis at the less coercive end, and including bioethically contentious approaches such as germ-line gene therapy and embryo selection.
January 01, 2018
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Broad definitional description of eugenics and associated techniques.