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In New Jersey’s Lewdness statute, there are two (2) circumstances that will upgrade the offense of Lewdness to a more serious fourth degree crime. What are those two (2) circumstances?

What are the three (3) crucial issues that specifically pertain to interviewing child victims of sexual abuse?

In a “consensual overhear”, the victim engages in a police-recorded phone conversation with a suspect, who has already been interviewed or interrogated by police, in an attempt to obtain incriminating statements.

How did the courts, under the New Jersey sex crimes laws prior to 1979, tie the issue of force to the issue of resistance?

Current New Jersey sex crimes statutes (2C) define the term “intimate parts” by referring to particular areas of a victim’s body such as the vaginal area, the anal area, the breasts, buttocks, groin, inner thighs and lips of a person.

The intentional touching of a victim’s intimate parts becomes the crime of sexual contact if the touching was done for either of two (2) specific purposes. Name those two (2) purposes.

It is critical that a forensic nurse maintain the chain of custody when handling SAFE kits because:

If a child is unable to tell the police about abuse during an interview, the investigators will use anatomically correct “dolls” in order to obtain the disclosure of abuse.

Which of the following is NOT a factor affecting a particular society’s attitudes about rape:

A patient’s cardiac rhythm is sinus bradycardia with a heart rate of 34 beats/min. If the bradycardia is symptomatic, the nurse would expect the patient to exhibit: