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Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre: killing of seven Moran North Side gang members in a Chicago garage on February 14, 1929, by gunmen posing as police, generally attributed to Al Capone's mob; solved ballistically but never prosecuted.
Salvatore Riina
Salvatore (Totò) Riina, Corleone-born boss of bosses of Cosa Nostra 1982–1993, won the Second Mafia War, ordered the Falcone and Borsellino bombings, served 26 life sentences, and died in Parma in 2017.
Satyam scandal
Satyam scandal: 2009 accounting fraud at Satyam Computer Services, India's fourth-largest IT firm, dubbed India's Enron. Founder Ramalinga Raju confessed to $1.47 billion falsified accounts; government reconstituted the board and sold the company to Tech Mahindra.
Sde Teiman gang rape
Sde Teiman gang rape: alleged 2024 sexual assault of a Palestinian detainee by IDF Force 100 reservists at the Sde Teiman camp in the Negev; nine arrested, five indicted in 2025, charges dropped in 2026.
Securities fraud
Securities fraud: deception in buying or selling securities, covering insider trading, Ponzi and pump-and-dump schemes, and misrepresentation. Governed by the 1933/1934 Acts and Rule 10b-5; enforced by the SEC and DOJ.
Security hacker
A security hacker is a person who explores computer systems and networks, either to find and fix weaknesses (white hat) or to gain unauthorized access maliciously (black hat).
Sef Gonzales
Sef Gonzales, Filipino Australian triple murderer, killed his parents Teddy and Mary and sister Clodine at North Ryde, Sydney on 10 July 2001, staging a fake hate crime, and received three concurrent life sentences in 2004; a sentence appeal was referred in 2025.
Serbian mafia
Serbian mafia: organized crime groups based in Serbia, also called Balkan cartel groups, dominant in cocaine and arms trafficking, hierarchically structured, with documented state security ties since the 1990s Yugoslav collapse.
Sergei Mavrodi (Сергей Пантелеевич Мавроди)
Sergei Mavrodi (Сергей Пантелеевич Мавроди), founder of the MMM pyramid scheme, defrauded millions of Russians in 1994, served in the Duma, was convicted of fraud in 2007, relaunched MMM-2011 and Bitcoin-based schemes, and died in 2018.
Setagaya family murder
Unsolved December 30–31, 2000 quadruple murder of the Miyazawa family in Kamisoshigaya, Setagaya, Tokyo; the killer left DNA, fingerprints, clothing and a broken sashimi knife, but no match; no statute of limitations since 2010.
Sex and the law
Sex and the law: the legal regulation of sexual conduct, consent, expression, and health across criminal, family, and communications law, covering consent standards, sexual offences, sex work, decriminalization, and 2025 deepfake and age-verification laws.
Sex offender
Sex offender: a person convicted of a sex offense, defined for U.S. federal purposes by SORNA (34 U.S.C. 20901). Covers registries from the 1994 Wetterling Act and 1996 Megan's Law to the 2006 Adam Walsh Act, recidivism rates, risk assessment tools, and treatment research.
Sex offender registries in the United States
Sex offender registries in the United States: state and federal databases of convicted sex offenders, established federally by the Jacob Wetterling Act (1994), Megan's Law (1996), and SORNA (2006). Research shows little effect on recidivism.
Sex tourism
Sex tourism is travel planned primarily for purchasing sexual services, often to destinations with permissive sex work laws or enforcement. Rooted in colonialism and military presence; distinct from, though overlapping with, sex trafficking; child sex tourism is criminalized extraterritorially.
Sex trafficking
Sex trafficking: forcing someone into commercial sex through coercion, fraud, or abuse of vulnerability, as defined by the 2000 Palermo Protocol; distinct from consensual sex work, though conflation, unreliable online-ad indicators, and weak prevalence data complicate identification.
Sex trafficking in Dubai
Sex trafficking in Dubai: exploitation of migrant women and girls for commercial sex in the UAE's largest city. Victims come from Central Asia, South and Southeast Asia, East Africa, and Eastern Europe; US Tier 2 rating; Federal Law 24 of 2023 governs; ICIJ and State Department document recruitment fraud, debt bondage, and shelter gaps.
Sex trafficking in the United States
Sex trafficking in the United States: commercial sex induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or involving minors, under the TVPA of 2000; covers the 3P framework, T visas, Polaris hotline typology, prevalence-data limits, and myths like the Super Bowl claim.
Sex141
Sex141 is a Hong Kong website that provides advertising for sex workers. It operates under the "141" format, which allows individual workers to advertise from rented apartments.
Sextortion
Sextortion is sexual blackmail, or sexual extortion, where offenders threaten to release intimate images unless demands are met. Financial variants often target young men aged 18 to 24.
Sexual abuse
Sexual abuse: coerced sexual acts or acts directed against a person's sexuality, including child sexual abuse and image-based sexual abuse; WHO estimates 31.6% of women affected, with evolving legal responses.
Sexual abuse of animals
Sexual abuse of animals (bestiality, zoophilia) is human sexual contact with nonhuman animals, criminalized in nearly all US states and much of Europe, with veterinary forensic methods and recent UK law reforms defining the offense.
Sexual abuse scandal in New Orleans Boy Scout Troop 137
Troop 137 scandal: a 1974 New Orleans Boy Scout troop whose adult leaders ran a child sexual abuse and prostitution ring, exposed in 1976, prosecuted 1977-1978, and later featured in the Netflix film Scouts Honor.
Sexual assault
Sexual assault is sexual activity without freely given consent, covering rape and unwanted sexual contact. Key facts: CDC prevalence data, the Hale marital rape exemption, and consent-based law reform in Canada, the UK, and France.
Sexual grooming
Sexual grooming is the process of building trust with a child to prepare sexual abuse; also called online grooming or child grooming. Covers grooming strategies, online versus offline patterns, UNICEF prevalence data, and grooming laws in the UK, Australia, and Singapore.
Sexual harassment
Sexual harassment, also called unwelcome sexual conduct or sex-based harassment, is sex discrimination under Title VII, taking quid pro quo and hostile work environment forms, prohibited in nearly two-thirds of UN states and governed by ILO Convention 190.
Sexual misconduct
Sexual misconduct is a non-legal umbrella term for unwelcome or non-consensual sexual behavior, spanning harassment, abuse, and assault, used in workplace, medical, academic, military, and UN policies; neither Black's nor Ballentine's law dictionaries define it.
Sexual penetration
Sexual penetration, also known as penetrative sex, is the placing of a penis, finger, or object into the vagina or anus, or a sex organ into the mouth.
Sexual predator
Sexual predator is a legal designation, mainly in US law, for convicted sex offenders judged likely to reoffend; it triggers civil commitment, registration, and restrictions, grounded in Washington's 1990 act and Kansas v. Hendricks.
Sexual slavery
Sexual slavery: holding a person in slavery and forcing sexual acts or services. Also called sex slavery, enslavement for sexual exploitation; overlaps sex trafficking. Key facts: ISIL slave markets in Raqqa, ILO $173 billion sexual-exploitation profits, 6.3 million victims in 2021.
Sexual violence in South Africa
Sexual violence in South Africa covers rape, sexual assault, and femicide under the 2007 Sexual Offences Act, with among the world's highest recorded rates, roughly one-third of rapes unreported, and a National Strategic Plan on GBVF (2020-2030) coordinating response.