Crimes against Women

1
Crimes against Women

• Rape/Sexual Assault
• Battering/Assault
• Intimate Violence Includes battering, and some
  rape/sexual assault cases

2
Prevalence Rates

• Rape sexual assault
• From NCVS 270/100,000
• 1/5th are by intimates
• Lifetime chances of rape for women 18-25,
  depending upon study
• 75 of rapes are perpetrated by offenders known
  to the woman
• Battering
• NCVS 400/100,000
• Conflict Tactic Scale Studies 12 of husbands
  battered in past year, 27 ever in marriage
• Given patterns of underreporting, true rates are
  assumed to be higher

3
Social Correlates

• Age
• Race
• Class
• Social Correlates (especially race and class) as
  a political hot button
• Individual Correlates?
• The issue of abnormality

4
Controversies

• Are rape and battering different from other
  crimes?
• Need separate explanation?
• Do mainstream theories apply?
• The issue of Sexual Symmetry in marital
  violence

5
Reducing Crimes Against Women

• The Sherman Experiment (1992)
• Replication attempts
• Unintended consequences
• Rehabilitation?
• Patriarchy and Social Change