Rape in the District of Columbia

Hayman, Charles R.; Lanza, C; Fuentes, Roberto; Algor, Kathe

doi:10.1016/0002-9378(72)90458-9

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“…Prior to 1995, investigators using direct visualization during the sexual assault exam found the prevalence of genital injury to be less than 40% in series composed of women, adolescents, and children (Cartwright, 1986;Everett & Jimerson, 1977;Goodyear-Smith, 1989;Hayman et al, 1972;Massey et al, 1971). In one of the first-reported investigations of a series of rape victims, Massey et al (1971) studied 480 females and found detectable gynecologic injuries in 5.2% of the sample.…”

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“…Other investigators reported a prevalence in the range of 20% to 40% in series with sample sizes of more than 100. For example, in 1,223 women and children, 20 victims had severe vaginal and vaginoperineal lacerations, and 199 had minor genital injuries (Hayman et al, 1972). Cartwright (1986) reported an adjusted frequency rate of 0.2% of females (N = 440) with genital injury requiring treatment and 16.1% with no treatment needed.…”

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Defining Patterns of Genital Injury From Sexual Assault

Sommers

2007

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Section: Injury Prevalence With Visual Inspectionmentioning

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Defining Patterns of Genital Injury From Sexual Assault

Sommers

2007

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Studies that sought to profile the prevalence and/or type of victim injury [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] 2. Studies that sought to compare victim injury across different populations (e.g.…”

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Heterogeneity of existing research relating to sexual violence, sexual assault and rape precludes meta-analysis of injury data

Kennedy

2013

Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

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CitationHeterogeneity of existing research relating to sexual violence, sexual assault and rape precludes meta-analysis of injury data. 2013, 20 (5) AbstractIn order for medical practitioners to adequately explain to the court the findings of their clinical examinations of victims of sexual violence, they must have access to research data which will place their findings in to context. Unfortunately, existing research has reported a very wide range of injury prevalence data. This papers aims to provide an explanation for this wide variation in results and, furthermore, this paper aims to establish if it is possible to carry out a meta-analysis of existing research data, pertaining to the prevalence of injury after sexual assault. It is suggested that pooling of individual study results may allow statistically robust determination of the true prevalence of injury in victims of sexual violence. It is concluded that heterogeneity in research methodology, between existing research studies, is responsible for the broad range of reported prevalence rates. Finally, this heterogeneity is seen to preclude robust meta-analysis.

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“…Several hypotheses were suggested by our clinical experience with sexually abused children. 18 The following hy¬ potheses formed the basis of our re¬ view: (1) Certain boys are at increased risk of sexual abuse; (2) year period from October 1976 through September 1980, a total of 152 males of all ages were seen in the Rape Crisis Center for alleged sexual assault complaints. As ten of these victims were adults, the re¬ maining 142 charts of boys less than 18 years of age were included in the study.…”

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