NCJ Number
157281
Date Published
1995
Length
212 pages
Annotation
Interviews with rape victims and more than 200 rapists, observations of victim interviews by detectives and nurses, and a review of other literature form the basis of this discussion of the types of rapes, the characteristics of rapists, false reports by children, police responses to rape, and sex offender treatment.
Abstract
The text emphasizes the disagreements among experts regarding the definition and incidence of rape and other issues related to rape. Individual sections discuss serial rapists, sexual sadism, childhood abuse of serial rapists, homosexuality and rape, the relationship of alcohol and drugs to rape, the role of pornography and media violence, and offender profiles. Additional chapters discuss date rape, acquaintance rape, group rape, male and female sexual murderers, the incidence and motives of false reports of rape, and false reports and false memories of child sexual abuse. Further chapters describe police responses to rape, advice on resisting rape, the medical examination of the victim, the use of criminal profiles in rape investigations, rape shield laws, prosecution and court procedures, and the effectiveness of different approaches to sex offender treatment. Chapter references and author and subject indexes