NCJ Number
104169
Journal
Criminal Justice and Behavior Volume: 13 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1986) Pages: 419-429
Date Published
1986
Length
11 pages
Annotation
A group of French-speaking rapists and ten French-speaking nonrapists were exposed to four classes of audiotaped stimuli: mutually consenting, rape, aggressive, and sexually neutral episodes.
Abstract
Penile circumference changes were recorded during stimulus presentation. Although rapists and nonrapists did not respond differentially to mutually consenting stimulus episodes, the two groups were distinguished by their responses to rape episodes. The discrimination was even more marked when the results were individually analyzed using the rape index. Thus we were able to replicate, in French, the differentiation between rapists and non-rapists using penile measures. (Publisher abstract)