Lethal Outcome in Sexual Assault Events: A Conjunctive Analysis

Mieczkowski, Tom; Beauregard, Éric

doi:10.1080/07418820902960105

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“…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). Furthermore, there has been some research regarding the home environment of the victim, with findings that a victim with a criminogenic background is less likely to encounter an escalation of violence resulting in homicide during a sexual assault (Mieczkowski & Beauregard, 2010). This is presumably due to the victim's previous encounters with violence, abuse, or criminal activity; such a victim would potentially be more experienced and knowledgeable about dangerous situations and be accustomed to reacting in a self-preserving manner.…”

Section: Victim Resistance and The Criminal Eventmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This connection could be due to a greater amount of time available in which to harm the victim. Alternately, the assailant may become frustrated and angry when the sexual assault takes longer than he had planned, leading to aggressive and violent behaviour (Mieczkowski & Beauregard, 2010) or a sadistically motivated offender may take additional time to inflict pain and injury on their victim, thus increasing their likelihood to react in a similarly violent fashion to victim resistance.…”

Section: Offender Violence In Response To Victim Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Only after uncovering the complex offender-victim interactions that lead to varying levels of offender violence and coercion throughout the offending sequence will researchers be able to begin to advise potential victims as to the most protective course of action and policy-makers as to the most useful relapse prevention models. Educating victims or offenders prematurely could lead to a greater proportion of sexual assaults resulting in victim injury, hospitalization, and death (Mieczkowski & Beauregard, 2010). To prevent such tragic consequences, researchers must strive to understand all of the complex relationships that increase an offender's propensity for violence within the context of a sexual assault.…”

Section: Support For the Social Interactionist Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Target & Puechl, 1993;Hartwick et al, 2007;Scott & Beaman, 2004;Ullman, 1998;Ullman & Knight, 1992 or by comparing these groups or employing an age variable in their analyses (for example, Beauregard, Stone, Proulx, & Michaud, 2008;Coker et al 1998;Mieczkowski & Beauregard, 2010;Scott & Beaman, 2004;Spohn, 1994;Weaver et al 2004). This observed age dichotomy demonstrates the substantial expected difference between offenders who target young victims and offenders who target adults.…”

Section: Child Versus Adult Victimsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…If there is no weapon to use, the only options for the offender are to manually restrain or subdue the victim or flee. Thus, if the offender is in possession of a weapon and is motivated to complete the sexual assault, threats with, or use of, a weapon are more likely to ease the completion of the assault (Kleck & McElrath, 1991;Mieczkowski & Beauregard, 2010).…”

Section: Offender Violence In Response To Victim Resistancementioning

confidence: 99%

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

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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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