Draft Final Technical Report: The Impact of Victim Self-Protection on Rape Completion and Injury

Kleck, Gary; Tark, Jongyeon

doi:10.1037/e512912006-001

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“…Perhaps different findings would emerge if alleged victims who did not report abuse to the authorities had been studied. Some authors encourage resistance (Bachman, Saltzman, Thompson, & Carmody, 2002;Kleck & Tark, 2005;Zoucha-Jensen & Coyne, 1993), whereas others claim that it makes victim injuries more likely (Miller-Perrin & Wurtele, 1988;Robertiello & Terry, 2007). Given the heterogeneity of abusers, it seems likely that resistance may be effective in some cases but counter-productive in others (Kleck & Sayles, 1990).…”

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confidence: 92%

Alleged Sex Abuse Victims’ Accounts of Their Abusers’ Modus Operandi

Gijn¹,

Lamb²

2013

jofsw

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One hundred four alleged sexual victims aged between 3 and 13 years described the modus operandi of their reported assailants. Younger children were more likely than older children to report repeated incidents of abuse by family members. Abuse tended to be more severe when there were multiple incidents. Older victims were more likely to report resisting the offenders’ strategies, which involved either persuasion (i.e., offering rewards, verbally convincing or provoking the victim) or coercion (i.e., verbal or physical threats). Adult suspects were reportedly more likely than young sus-pects to use persuasion, but there were no age of suspect differences in the reported occurrence of coercion.

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confidence: 92%

Alleged Sex Abuse Victims’ Accounts of Their Abusers’ Modus Operandi

Gijn¹,

Lamb²

2013

jofsw

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“…See Table 1 for a list of the NCVS/NCS studies that used overlapping samples and the resulting decisions regarding inclusion in the current analysis. In selecting from among the NCVS/NCS studies, we chose a combination of two studies (Kleck and Tark, 2004; Marchbanks et al, 1990) that provided the most years from this data set so as to prevent data loss to the extent possible.…”

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“…The majority of the studies were based on data sources collected in the 1970s and 1980s. Even the two most recently published studies were based on data that are not recent; Fisher, Daigle, Cullen, and Santana (2007) used a sample collected in 1997, while Kleck and Tark (2004) used NCVS data collected from 1992 to 2002. Five of the studies were published in peer-reviewed journals, while two are technical reports.…”

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The Effect of Victim Resistance on Rape Completion: A Meta-Analysis

Wong

Balemba

2016

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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When confronted with a sexual attacker, women are often extremely concerned with avoiding rape completion. While narrative reviews typically suggest that the victim resistance is linked to rape avoidance, much of the existing literature relies on overlapping samples from the National Crime Victimization Survey. The current meta-analysis examines whether victim resistance is related to a greater likelihood of avoiding rape completion. Results from a systematic literature search across 25 databases supplemented by a search of the gray literature resulted in 4,581 hits of which seven studies met eligibility criteria for the review. Findings suggest that women who resist their attacker are significantly more likely than nonresisters to avoid rape completion. This finding held across analyses for physical resistance, verbal resistance, or resistance of any kind. Limitations of the analysis and policy implications are discussed, with particular focus on other research findings that resistance may be linked to greater victim injury.

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“…However, very little is known about completion as an outcome of nonsexual assault (but see Block & Skogan, 1984;Skogan & Block, 1983). Finally, these studies use broad categories to measure resistance and thus potentially confound their results (except Kleck & Tark, 2005). Most studies use a two-category operationalization (e.g., physical fighting back vs. all other self-protective behaviors) of resistance, which aggregates behaviors that may have different impacts on outcomes.…”

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Consequences of Using Self-Protective Behaviors in Nonsexual Assaults: The Differential Risk of Completion and Injury by Victim Sex

Powers

2015

Violence Vict

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This study examines the consequences of using self-protective behaviors in nonsexual assaults. Particular attention is paid to how victim sex modifies conclusions regarding the effectiveness of countermeasures as completion or injury avoidance strategies. These relationships are tested using 16,309 incidents of nonsexual assaults from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Several outcomes of violent encounters (i.e., completion, injury, injury severity) are regressed on measures of self-protective behaviors through a sequence of logistic regressions. Interactions between victim sex and self-protective behavior are also estimated. Forceful physical strategies are associated with a greater probability of assault completion and injury. Conversely, nonforceful verbal strategies serve as protective factors for both completion and injury and nonforceful physical strategies are associated with a lower probability of injury. Furthermore, there is some evidence that the effectiveness of these countermeasures varies by the sex of the victim.

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Draft Final Technical Report: The Impact of Victim Self-Protection on Rape Completion and Injury

Cited by 5 publications

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Alleged Sex Abuse Victims’ Accounts of Their Abusers’ Modus Operandi

Alleged Sex Abuse Victims’ Accounts of Their Abusers’ Modus Operandi

The Effect of Victim Resistance on Rape Completion: A Meta-Analysis

Consequences of Using Self-Protective Behaviors in Nonsexual Assaults: The Differential Risk of Completion and Injury by Victim Sex

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