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Basow, Susan A.; Minieri, Alexandra – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Sexual social exchange theory was applied to perceptions of a date rape by manipulating the cost of the date and who paid in vignettes presented to 188 U.S. college students, who then rated the characters' sexual expectations, blame, responsibility, and rape justifiability. Findings from this between-participant design partially supported…
Descriptors: Rape, Dating (Social), Social Exchange Theory, College Students
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Campbell, Rebecca; Sprague, Heather Brown; Cottrill, Sara; Sullivan, Cris M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Longitudinal research designs are relatively rare in the academic literature on rape and sexual assault despite their tremendous methodological rigor and scientific utility. In the interest of promoting wider use of such methods, we conducted a methodological review of projects that have used prospective longitudinal designs to study the…
Descriptors: Rape, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies, Research Methodology
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Patterson, Debra – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Prior research has suggested that almost half of rape victims are treated by law enforcement in ways that they experience as upsetting (termed "secondary victimization"). However, it remains unknown why some victims have negative experiences with law enforcement and others do not. The purpose of this study is to explore victims' experiences with…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Rape, Law Enforcement, Justice
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Peterson, Zoe D.; Muehlenhard, Charlene L. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
Many rape victims are unacknowledged rape victims--they report an experience meeting researchers' operational definitions of rape but do not label their experience as rape. The purpose of this study was to investigate women's decisions about whether to label their experiences as rape. Participants were 77 college women (predominantly White; mean…
Descriptors: Rape, Females, Definitions, Motivation
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Eyssel, Friederike; Bohner, Gerd – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Two experiments (N = 330) examined conditions that facilitate biasing effects of rape myth acceptance (RMA) on judgments of blame in rape cases. In both experiments, participants read a short vignette depicting a rape case. In Experiment 1, the amount of case-irrelevant information about defendant and plaintiff was varied. As predicted, high-RMA…
Descriptors: Rape, Prediction, Anxiety, Psychological Patterns
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Hoyt, Tim; Yeater, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study employed multilevel modeling to evaluate individual and situational influences on men's responses to hypothetical dating and social situations. Three hundred and fifty college men completed measures assessing their propensity for sexual aggression and provided written responses to 10 written vignettes, each of which was followed by four…
Descriptors: College Students, Males, Responses, Vignettes
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Thornton, David – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2013
This paper summarizes our developing knowledge of factors that contribute added risk of sexual recidivism (risk factors) and factors that are associated with a reduced risk of sexual recidivism (protective factors). Specific implications for the design of future treatment programs are drawn. This information is contrasted with the common foci of…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Recidivism, Criminals, Resilience (Psychology)
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Hill, Andreas; Rettenberger, Martin; Habermann, Niels; Berner, Wolfgang; Eher, Reinhard; Briken, Peer – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
To examine the predictive accuracy of four well established risk assessment instruments (PCL-R, HCR-20, SVR-20, and Static-99) in an important subgroup of sexual offenders, these instruments were assessed retrospectively based on information from forensic psychiatric court reports in a sample of 90 released male sexual homicide offenders (out of…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Foreign Countries, Sexual Abuse, Criminals
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Orchowski, Lindsay M.; Untied, Amy S.; Gidycz, Christine A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The current study examined college women's perceptions of the positive and negative socioemotional consequences associated with engaging in self-protective behaviors to reduce risk for sexual victimization. At baseline, women completed assessments of the extent to which they would experience positive or negative socioemotional consequences as a…
Descriptors: Females, Victims of Crime, At Risk Persons, Social Influences
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Ahrens, Kym R.; Katon, Wayne; McCarty, Carolyn; Richardson, Laura P.; Courtney, Mark E. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2012
Purpose: To evaluate the association between history of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) and having transactional sex among adolescents who have been in foster care. Methods: We used an existing dataset of youth transitioning out of foster care. Independent CSA variables included self report of history of sexual molestation and rape when participants…
Descriptors: Age, Rape, Children, Foster Care
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Jouriles, Ernest N.; Rowe, Lorelei Simpson; McDonald, Renee; Platt, Cora G.; Gomez, Gabriella S. – Behavior Therapy, 2011
This study evaluated the validity of a role-play procedure that uses virtual reality technology to assess women's responses to sexual threat. Forty-eight female undergraduate students were randomly assigned to either a standard, face-to-face role-play (RP) or a virtual role-play (VRP) of a sexually coercive situation. A multimethod assessment…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Role Playing, Females, Computer Simulation
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Wolitzky-Taylor, Kate B.; Resnick, Heidi S.; Amstadter, Ananda B.; McCauley, Jenna L.; Ruggiero, Kenneth J.; Kilpatrick, Dean G. – Journal of American College Health, 2011
Background: Studies indicate that a small percentage of rapes are reported to law enforcement officials. Research also suggests that rapes perpetrated by a stranger are more likely to be reported and that rapes involving drugs and/or alcohol are less likely to be reported. College women represent a unique and understudied population with regard to…
Descriptors: College Students, Rape, Females, Narcotics
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Resick, Patricia A.; Williams, Lauren F.; Suvak, Michael K.; Monson, Candice M.; Gradus, Jaimie L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: We conducted a long-term follow-up (LTFU) assessment of participants from a randomized controlled trial comparing cognitive processing therapy (CPT) with prolonged exposure (PE) for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Competing hypotheses for positive outcomes (i.e., additional therapy, medication) were examined. Method:…
Descriptors: Rape, Therapy, Depression (Psychology), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Mokros, Andreas; Schilling, Frank; Eher, Reinhard; Nitschke, Joachim – Psychological Assessment, 2012
The Severe Sexual Sadism Scale (SSSS) is a screening device for the file-based assessment of forensically relevant sexual sadism. The SSSS consists of 11 dichotomous (yes/no) items that code behavioral indicators of severe sexual sadism within sexual offenses. Based on an Austrian sample of 105 sexual offenders, the present study replicated the…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Item Response Theory, Measures (Individuals), Clinical Diagnosis
Dalton-Noblitt, April – American School & University, 2012
In a study conducted among more than 980 American four-year and two-year colleges and universities, including institutions such as the University of Michigan, MIT, UCLA and Columbia, security staff and other administrators identified the five leading goals for their security systems: (1) Preventing unauthorized people from entering their…
Descriptors: School Safety, School Security, Facilities Management, Sexual Harassment
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