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Campbell, Rebecca – American Psychologist, 2008
This review article examines rape victims' experiences seeking postassault assistance from the legal, medical, and mental health systems and how those interactions impact their psychological well-being. This literature suggests that although some rape victims have positive, helpful experiences with social system personnel, for many victims,…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Help Seeking, Rape, Psychologists
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Church, Wesley T., II; Wakeman, Emily E.; Miller, Sarah L.; Clements, Carl B.; Sun, Fei – Research on Social Work Practice, 2008
Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine the nature of individual attitudes toward sex offenders. Because the term "sex offender" tends to evoke strong emotions, and given that open-ended self reports tend to be highly subjective, particularly in the context of such pointed terminology, this study sought to develop an attitude…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Community Attitudes, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Prentky, Robert A.; Knight, Raymond A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Notes that sexual aggression is determined by multiplicity of variables and that convicted sexual offenders are markedly heterogeneous. Surveys offender and nonoffender sexual aggression research for evidence about which dimensions should be included in multivariate models that attempt to discriminate rapists from nonrapists, to identify subgroups…
Descriptors: Aggression, Identification, Rape, Sexuality
Chandler, Donald S., Jr.; Jamshidi, Ray; Perkins, Michele – Online Submission, 2007
This study explored emotional sensitivity and counseling-related needs of 114 African American college students at a historically black college located in the southwestern region of the United States. Despite previous studies, the results suggested that African American college students who attended a historically black college needed similar…
Descriptors: Rape, Needs Assessment, Drug Education, Counseling Services
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Townsend, Stephanie M.; Campbell, Rebecca – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
This study examined the practices of 24 community-based rape prevention programs. Although these programs were geographically dispersed throughout one state, they were remarkably similar in their approach to rape prevention programming. DiMaggio and Powell's (1991) theory of institutional isomorphism was used to explain the underlying causes of…
Descriptors: Rape, Prevention, Community Programs, Organizational Theories
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Varker, Tracey; Devilly, Grant J. – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine general empathy, general victim empathy and own victim empathy in adolescent sexual offenders. Sixteen adolescent sexual offenders completed the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI), the Personal Reaction Inventory, a "general sexual abuse victim" form of the Victim Empathy Distortions Scale…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Perspective Taking, Measures (Individuals), Victims of Crime
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Smith, Kimberly; Bryant-Davis, Thema; Tillman, Shaquita; Marks, Alison – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2010
In South Africa, females under the age of 18 comprise approximately 40% of the rapes and other forms of sexual assault that occur. However, South African girls face multiple barriers to seeking help in the aftermath of sexual assault. This literature review provides an overview of childhood sexual assault in South African girls and addresses…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Sexual Abuse, Females, Mental Health
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Hall, Gordon C. Nagayama; Hirschman, Richard – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Addresses need for unified theoretical model of sexually aggressive behavior against adult females by integrating elements of existing models into quadripartite model which accounts for heterogeneity of sexual aggressors by prominence of potential etiological factors. Model components (physiological sexual arousal, cognitions justifying sexual…
Descriptors: Aggression, Models, Rape, Sexuality
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McGrath, Robert J.; Livingston, Joy A.; Falk, Gail – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2007
The state of Vermont closed its only institution for persons with intellectual disabilities in 1993 and moved to a totally community-based model of services. Here we describe the characteristics of the near exhaustive statewide sample of adult male sex offenders with intellectual disabilities (N = 103) who received these services between 1993 and…
Descriptors: Recidivism, State Programs, Mental Retardation, Sexual Abuse
Tremblay, Paul F.; Harris, Roma; Berman, Helene; MacQuarrie, Barb; Hutchinson, Gail E.; Smith, Mary Ann; Braley, Susan; Jelley, Jennifer; Dearlove, Kristen – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2008
In this article we investigate Canadian university and college students' interpersonal conflicts and exposure to abuse and violence during their postsecondary studies and assess the emotional, social, and academic impact of these experiences. Our findings, based on a sample 1174 university and college students in Southwestern Ontario, revealed…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Campuses, Sexual Abuse
Hickson, Mark, III; Roebuck, Julian B. – Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, Ltd, 2009
This book provides potential answers to reduce deviant behavior and crime in colleges and universities. Claiming that the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois shootings were aberrations, the authors have nevertheless uncovered offenses that presage major criminal incidents, such as students' engaging in cheating, plagiarism, binge drinking, date…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Plagiarism, Rape, Crime
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MacDonald, John M.; Haviland, Amelia; Morral, Andrew R. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2009
Understanding the progression of violent and nonviolent criminal activity remains a matter of theoretical debate. In the present study, the authors build on criminological theory and assess the extent to which the progression of violent and nonviolent criminal behaviors follows different trajectories. The authors rely on semiparametric mixture…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Criminals, At Risk Persons, Violence
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Thompson, Martie; Sitterle, Dylan; Clay, George; Kingree, Jeffrey – Journal of American College Health, 2007
Victimization is a significant problem among college students, but it is less likely to be reported to the police than are victimizations in the general population. Objective: In this study, the authors examined (1) whether reasons for not reporting varied by type of victimization (sexual or physical) and (2) victim-, offender-, and…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Prevention, Females, College Students
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Logan, TK; Cole, Jennifer; Capillo, Anita – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2007
Relatively little is known about characteristics of sexual assault survivors who present to the emergency room. Examination of differences in survivor, assault, and exam characteristics by type of offender (intimate partner, acquaintance, acquaintance-just-met, and stranger) was conducted using intake data collected from 331 women who presented to…
Descriptors: Females, Sexual Abuse, Nurses, Individual Characteristics
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Alekseeva, L. S. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
Children make up the segment of society that is the most defenseless, vulnerable, and completely dependent on adults. It is the fault of adults when children end up in areas of natural disasters and catastrophes or zones of military combat operations and become the hostages and victims of physical, sexual, and emotional violence. As E. Fromm…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Family Violence
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