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Fyson, Rachel – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
This paper outlines the key findings from a recent study of statutory service responses to young people with learning disabilities who show sexually inappropriate or abusive behaviours, with a particular focus on the involvement of criminal justice agencies. The study found that although inappropriate sexual behaviours were commonplace in special…
Descriptors: Intervention, Criminals, Young Adults, Special Schools
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Gidycz, Christine A.; Orchowski, Lindsay M.; King, Carrie R.; Rich, Cindy L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2008
The present study utilizes the National College Health Risk Behavior Survey to examine the relationship between health-risk behaviors and sexual victimization among a sample of college women. A prospective design is utilized to examine the relationship between health-risk behaviors as measured at baseline and sexual victimization during a 3-month…
Descriptors: Violence, Child Abuse, Smoking, Females
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
"Summers To Step Down, Ending Tumult at Harvard" kicked off in 2006 as one of the most talked about news stories in higher education. Only a few months later, an event involving another elite institution would grab even more headlines, and with more serious ramifications. Three Duke University men's lacrosse players were indicted on rape…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Segregation, Rape, Death
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Bergen, Raquel Kennedy; Bukovec, Paul – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
This article explores men's use of sexual violence against their intimate partner. Although there is a growing body of information about men's use of physical violence, there is less data about men's sexual violence in intimate partnerships. Data were collected from 229 men who were enrolled in an intervention program for men who abuse. Of men in…
Descriptors: Rape, Intimacy, Males, Individual Characteristics
Nelson, Michael – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
The Carlisle Indian School, founded by Richard Henry Pratt in 1879 to educate American Indian youth as an assist to having those youth success in mainstream America, is featured in two recently published books, "The Real All Americans: The Team That Changed a Game, a People, a Nation," by Sally Jenkins (Doubleday, 2007), and "Carlisle vs. Army:…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Social Attitudes, Stereotypes, Political Attitudes
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Miller, Mark W.; Resick, Patricia A. – Behavior Therapy, 2007
This study replicated and extended findings of internalizing and externalizing subtypes of posttraumatic psychopathology (Miller, M. W., Greif, J. L., & Smith, A. A. (2003). Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire profiles of veterans with traumatic combat exposure: Internalizing and externalizing subtypes. "Psychological Assessment, 15",…
Descriptors: Personality Problems, Psychological Evaluation, Females, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Hindelang, Michael J. – American Sociological Review, 1978
This study examines the data regarding the proportional overrepresentation of Blacks as offenders/arrestees for the common law crimes of forcible rape, robbery, and assault, and outlines the difficulties in interpreting this data. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Crime, Economic Factors, Rape
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Reynolds, Lynn – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1984
Examines societal institutions that promote sexism and powerlessness, including the family, police and courts, and marriage. Considers the political implications of research generated from biological/psychological disciplines which focus on individual psychopathology and fail to account for cultural determinants of rape. (JAC)
Descriptors: Etiology, Predictor Variables, Rape, Sex Bias
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LaFree, Gary D. – American Journal of Sociology, 1982
Tests two models of Black offender/White victim (BW) rape, using data from 443 rape cases. Results did not support the normative model which correlates BW rape with increased social interaction between Black men and White women and only partially supported the conflict model that correlates BW rape with increased Black politicization. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Models, Racial Factors, Rape
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Holmstrom, Lynda Lytle; Burgess, Wolbert – Family Coordinator, 1979
Analyzes the reaction of husbands and boyfriends to the rape of a wife or girlfriend. The man's reaction has two components: his own response and his interaction with the victim. The issues are whether the couple can discuss the rape, deal with the woman's new phobias, and resume sexual relations. (Author)
Descriptors: Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Males, Rape
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Lee, Ellen; Kleiner, Brian H. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2003
Each year approximately 51,000 incidents of rape and sexual assault occur in the workplace. If an incident of rape occurs in the workplace, management can adopt several procedures for both the assaulted victim and the organization. This article highlights those procedures, as well as administrative controls and environmental designs that function…
Descriptors: Organizational Climate, Prevention, Rape, Sexual Abuse
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Barbaree, Howard E.; Marshall, William L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Examines men's sexual arousal to rape cues and its possible role in sexual assault. Presents six different models to account for men's sexual arousal to descriptions of rape. Divides models into response control models and stimulus control models. Suggests that different models may be operating in different men when they commit sexual assault.…
Descriptors: Arousal Patterns, Foreign Countries, Males, Models
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Ullman, Sarah E.; Knight, Raymond A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Analyzed relation of situational factors, offender aggression, and victim resistance to women's sexual abuse and physical injury during sexual assaults using police reports/court testimonies of 274 women who avoided rape or were raped. After situational variables were partialed out, women's screaming was related to less severe sexual abuse;…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Injuries, Models
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Galski, Thomas; And Others – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Attempted to establish the connection between disordered sexuality and brain impairment by using newly developed techniques of neuropsychological investigation with sex offenders (n=35). Results indicated a major portion of the sex offenders showed impaired brain functioning on Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery. (Author/ABL)
Descriptors: Correlation, Criminals, Neurological Impairments, Prisoners
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Coleman, Eli; Dwyer, Margretta – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Proposes standards of care for the treatment of adult sex offenders, primarily in outpatient settings. Notes these standards will be presented at the Second International Conference on the Treatment of Sex Offenders in September 1991. Recommends professionals use the standards as minimal criteria for evaluation of the work and document exceptions…
Descriptors: Adults, Counseling Techniques, Criminals, Rape
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