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  • Examining the relationship between sexual offenders and their victims: interpersonal differences between stranger and non-stranger sexual offences

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    Woods, L
    Porter, L
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    Porter, Louise E.
    Year published
    2008
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    Abstract
    The present study examined the behavioural differences in sexual assault offences in relation to the offender-victim relationship (stranger versus non-stranger). These differences were examined specifically in the context of four interpersonal themes of interaction: dominance, submission, hostility and cooperation. The details of 100 sexual offence cases (50 stranger and 50 non-stranger) were content-analysed, generating 58 dichotomous variables, covering offender and victim behaviour during the offence. ?2 tests comparing the two samples found that offenders who were strangers to their victims were more likely than non-stranger ...
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    The present study examined the behavioural differences in sexual assault offences in relation to the offender-victim relationship (stranger versus non-stranger). These differences were examined specifically in the context of four interpersonal themes of interaction: dominance, submission, hostility and cooperation. The details of 100 sexual offence cases (50 stranger and 50 non-stranger) were content-analysed, generating 58 dichotomous variables, covering offender and victim behaviour during the offence. ?2 tests comparing the two samples found that offenders who were strangers to their victims were more likely than non-stranger offenders to display behaviours that indicate a hostile, violent offence style. In contrast, those offenders who knew their victims were more likely than strangers to display a less violent and more personal, compliance-gaining offence style. These findings are discussed in terms of their implications for offender rehabilitation and victim support.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of sexual aggression
    Volume
    14
    Issue
    1
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600802056640
    Copyright Statement
    © 2008 National Organisation for the Treatment of Abusers. This is an electronic version of an article published in Journal of sexual aggression, Vol. 14(1), 2008, pp. 61-75. Journal of sexual aggression is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
    Subject
    Criminology
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/22958
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