To Resist or Not to Resist?

Balemba, Samantha; Beauregard, Éric; Mieczkowski, Tom

doi:10.1177/0011128712437914

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“…Although Collins (2008 , pp. 174-186) considers his theory relevant for “muggings and holdups” and “armed robberies,” and despite scholarly calls for microsociological analysis of robbery violence ( Balemba, Beauregard, & Mieczkowski, 2012 ; Lindegaard, Bernasco, & Jacques, 2015 ), Collins’s theory has so far not been systematically applied to the study of robbery violence.…”

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“…Specifically, there is a need for systematic observational studies on the actual microsequences of robberies—by contrast, the offender and victim-based studies, on which Collins relies, draw conclusions from self-reported and retrospective accounts. This call for research in the actual behavioral sequence of robberies is summarized by Balemba et al (2012 , p. 607): 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. …”

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Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence

Liebst

Lindegaard

Bernasco

2019

J Interpers Violence

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The influential microsociological theory of violence advanced by Randall Collins suggests that emotional dominance preconditions physical violence. Here, we examine robbery incidents as counterevidence of this proposition. Using 50 video clips of real-life commercial robberies recorded by surveillance cameras, we observed, coded, and analyzed the interpersonal behaviors of offenders and victims in microdetail. We found no support for Collins's hypothesized link between dominance and violence, but evidence against it instead. It is the absence, not the presence, of emotional offender dominance that promotes offender violence. We consider these results in the light of criminological research on robbery violence and suggest that Collins's strong situational stance would benefit from a greater appreciation of instrumental motivation and cold-headed premeditation.

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Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence

Liebst

Lindegaard

Bernasco

2019

J Interpers Violence

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“…When thinking about the offense dynamic, the importance of resistance from the victim, for example, has been noted. Even though verbal and physical resistance can enable the victim to effectively avoid rape (Ullman, 2007), physical resistance has also been found to increase the chances of the aggressor becoming violent during a sexual attack (e.g., Balemba, Beauregard, & Mieczkowski, 2012). In fact, both physical and verbal resistance were found to increase lethality of a sexual assault if the perpetrator had a weapon.…”

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“We Boil at Different Degrees”: Factors Associated With Severity of Attack in Sexual Killing

Stefanska

Higgs

Carter

et al. 2018

J Interpers Violence

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Degree of injury, as measured by the Homicide Injury Scale (HIS), was examined to advance understanding of the dynamics of sexual killing. A total of 350 nonserial, male sexual killers were included, and the different ways that the sexual element of their offenses and the act of killing were connected was accounted for by determining that cases were either directly sexual (the sexual element and killing were closely bound), or indirectly sexual (killing was not a source of sexual stimulation). The two groups, direct and indirect sexual killers, were each subjected to multiple linear regression analyses to examine the group-specific relationship between level of injury and predictor variables previously found to be associated with increased severity of attack. No differences in the mean total HIS scores between the indirect and the direct cases were found, suggesting a comparable emotional intensity between the groups. However, given that the groups differed in terms of the functional role of fatal violence, severity of attack could not be sufficiently explained as driven by anger. In line with this hypothesis, different predictors appeared to be associated with increased degree of injury sustained by victims of indirect compared with direct sexual killers. As such, situational components appear to play a role in the behavior of indirect sexual killers, whereas the behavior of direct perpetrators tends to be linked with the enactment of existing deviant fantasies. The role of anger in sexual homicide is discussed further, and overall, it is argued that irrespective of whether violence was initially driven by anger, evidence of sexual arousal to severe violence must be scrutinized within sexual homicide research as well as in psycholegal contexts.

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“…The majority of victim resistance studies have focused on the impact of that resistance on offender behavior and crime outcomes (e.g. Balemba et al, 2012; Reid and Beauregard, 2017; Tark and Kleck, 2004; Wong and Balemba, 2018). However, it is of utmost importance to adopt a victimology-centered approach to understanding victims’ behavior.…”

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Why didn’t you resist? Situational influences on victim resistance during a rape

Chopin

Beauregard

2022

International Review of Victimology

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The purpose of this study is to examine factors influencing victim resistance during rape. Specifically, this study aims to understand which factors impact victim resistance using a multivariate approach focused on situational aspects related to offender, victim, and crime context characteristics. The sample includes 2,017 rape cases where victims did not resist, resisted passively, resisted verbally, or resisted physically. The first step of this study uses bivariate analyses to examine the relationship between the different categories of victim resistance and offender, victim, and crime context characteristics. Second, we computed three sequential binomial regressions in order to better understand the impact of each variable in multivariate modeling. The findings suggest that victim resistance is impacted by three main dimensions: victims’ physical and psychological vulnerabilities, the mentalizing of victimization risk, and the analysis of offenders’ vulnerabilities and additional risks to the victim. Both theoretical and practical implications for victims as well as for various actors in the criminal justice system are discussed.

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To Resist or Not to Resist?

Cited by 26 publications

References 27 publications

Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence

Dissecting the Role of Dominance in Robberies: An Analysis and Implications for Microsociology of Violence

“We Boil at Different Degrees”: Factors Associated With Severity of Attack in Sexual Killing

Why didn’t you resist? Situational influences on victim resistance during a rape

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