noun
mutilation of a corpse; damaging a dead body
Legal term for the crime of physically damaging or mutilating a dead body. Used in criminal law contexts.
死体損壊の罪で逮捕された。
He was arrested on charges of corpse mutilation.
刑法には死体損壊に関する規定がある。
The penal code has provisions regarding damage to a dead body.
死体遺棄 means 'abandonment of a corpse', while 死体損壊 specifically refers to physically damaging or mutilating the body.
Compound of 死体 (corpse) + 損壊 (damage, destruction). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the legal meaning.