Word: elicitation
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...term encompasses acts in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim...
...also debated the ways in which the College should deal with cases of acquaintance rape. The Council approved a definition of rape as any sexual act that occurs "despite the expressed unwillingness of the victim" and left in a "gray area" those cases in which the initiator "falls to elicit consent, resulting in psychological or physical harm of the victim...
...prosecutors did elicit useful testimony from one of the accused officers, Theodore Briseno, but it is not clear that they gained much advantage from it. Five years ago, Briseno was suspended without pay for 66 days, after a police board of rights found him guilty on four counts of using excessive force. But before the trial, he broke ranks with his three fellow officers. On the stand he testified that they were "out of control" on the night of the beating. He claimed that he had tried to restrain them. Lies, countered two other officers, who said Briseno had told...
Council members left in a "grey area" those cases in which the initiator "fails to elicit consent resulting in the physical or psychological harm of the victim." They dubbed this new category of sexual crime "sexual negligence"--those cases in which the alleged victim expressed neither consent nor lack of consent...
...grey area of "sexual negligence" labelsfailure to elicit consent as "something less thanrape but nothing so causal as sexual harassment orsexual misconduct," according to Anagnostopoulos...