Examining Group Rape: A Descriptive Analysis of Offender and Victim Behaviour

Porter, Louise; Alison, Laurence

doi:10.1177/1477370806065586

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“…Gang members have been found to use MPR as a form of initiation for incoming members and/or intimidation to perhaps silence witnesses or retaliate against rival gangs (Moore & Hagedorn, 2001). The literature also suggests that when MPR becomes physically violent, its meaning is more ritualistic than instrumental (Porter & Alison, 2006). So, arguably within gang culture, MPR, especially when physically violent, is typically enacted as part of a ceremony, such as an initiation of a new member.…”

Section: Past Mpr Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Males Show Multiple-Perpetrator Rape Proclivity

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The literature on Multiple Perpetrator Rape (MPR) is scant; however, a significant proportion of sexual offending involves multiple perpetrators. In addition to the need for research with apprehended offenders of MPR, there is also a need to conduct research with members of the general public. Recent advances in the forensic literature have led to the development of self-report proclivity scales. These scales have enabled researchers to conduct evaluative studies sampling from members of the general public who may be perpetrators of sexual offenses and have remained undetected, or at highest risk of engaging in sexual offending. The current study describes the development and preliminary validation of the Multiple-Perpetrator Rape Interest Scale (M-PRIS), a vignette-based measure assessing community males’ sexual arousal to MPR, behavioral propensity toward MPR and enjoyment of MPR. The findings show that the M-PRIS is a reliable measure of community males’ sexual interest in MPR with high internal reliability and temporal stability. In a sample of university males we found that a large proportion (66%) did not emphatically reject an interest in MPR. We also found that rape-supportive cognitive distortions, antisocial attitudes, and high-risk sexual fantasies were predictors of sexual interest in MPR. We discuss these findings and the implications for further research employing proclivity measures referencing theory development and clinical practice.

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Section: Past Mpr Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community Males Show Multiple-Perpetrator Rape Proclivity

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“…Research has focused on determining what situational factors increase violence levels within sexual assaults (Carr & VanDeusen, 2004;Coker, Walls, & Johnson, 1998;Hartwick, Desmarais, & Hennig, 2007;Porter & Alison, 2006;Scott & Beaman, 2004;Weaver, Wittekind, Huff-Corzine, Corzine, Petee, & Jarvis, 2004;Wilcox, Jordan, & Pritchard, 2006), but most studies give no significant consideration to how this relates to victim resistance. However, as discussed previously, Ullman has determined that particular situational and crime factors influence the efficacy of resistance (Ullman & Knight, 1993) but that, in general, the likelihood of victim injury and rape completion outcomes is reduced when the victim resists to the greatest extent possible.…”

Section: Victim Resistance and The Criminal Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two situational variables frequently reported to affect the level of violence in a sexual assault are the presence of a weapon and the use of alcohol and/or drugs. Overall, the presence of a weapon has been found to significantly increase victim injury and violence levels, as well as the proportion of completed rapes (Coker et al, 1998;Porter & Alison, 2006;Ullman, 2007b;Ullman & Knight, 1993;Weaver et al, 2004). The use of alcohol or drugs has been reported to increase the level of violence and likelihood of rape completion, effects potentially due to reduced victim resistance (Carr & Vandeusen, 2004;Coker et al, 1998;Scott & Beaman, 2004;Ullman, 2007b;Ullman & Knight, 1993).…”

Section: Victim Resistance and The Criminal Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reactions to Resistance: The Role of Contextual Factors in Sex Offending

Balemba¹,

Beauregard

2012

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Upon encountering victim resistance during the commission of a sexual assault, an offender makes a decision as to how to react to the resistance via the use of varying degrees of coercive or noncoercive tactics. Exhaustive chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) analyses were performed on a sample of 369 criminal events to detect the significant situational and crime-specific factors, the pertinent interactions between these factors, and how these affect an offender’s reaction to victim resistance depending on whether the victim is a child or an adult. Findings show that multiple interactions do occur and, moreover, factors affecting the offender’s reaction to victim resistance are very different depending on whether the victim is a child or an adult. Planning and preparation variables, such as the offender’s attack strategy, were found to be significant in the child victim model, whereas reactive variables, such as the type of victim resistance, were found to be significant in the adult victim model. The findings lend support to the social interactionist perspective and the importance of victim–offender dynamics.

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“…Our finding of multiple perpetrators is intermediate between 44% reported in South Africa and 25% reported in us. 10 the high incidence of gang rape may be attributed to the increasing rate of cultism, gangsterism and armed robbery in the country.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%