SOC 014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: National Crime Victimization Survey, Statutory Rape, Carnal Knowledge
10 Apr 2020
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Families are not only a place of love, but sometimes a place of violence: a pioneering study in 1975 was among the first to look at family and spousal violence. In their sample for 1/3 of participants it had happened once, for 1/6 twice and for 1/2 three or more times. Later findings have corroborated these numbers and even shown that they might be underrepresented. The more severe acts of violence were likely to be committed by men. Factors linked to higher likelihood of abuse: (1) low family income (2) low education (3) unemployment (4) men with more traditional gender role expectations (5) violent family history. 1/4 of undergraduate women experience sexual assault during their time in college: critics noted the overall low response rates of universities to this problem nationwide. Definition of rape by the fbi since the 1920s: carnal knowledge of a female, forcibly an against her will: problems with this definition:
