SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homicide, The Richardson Gang, Sam Groth
20 Oct 2016
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Firearms availability: explains us-canada differences, in canada, 14,000 gun-related deaths over 10 years, mainly suicides (81%) and accidents. Historical masculinity related issues: women were viewed as property of men, rape was an offence against the father or husband, rape diminished the value of wife or daughter. Rape and the military: canadian and american military, complaints of sexual assault in 1990"s, rape has long been associated with warfare, women were considered to be spoils of war, vietnam, bosnia, africa. Type of rapists (groth and birnbaum, 1979: anger rape, means of expressing rage, excessive brutality, power rape, exert control over women, less violence used, sadistic rape, abusive and degrading, involves ritual and torture, gang rape, peer pressure. Date rape: canadian college women survey (1993, 1/3 experiences physical verbal or psychological coercion, 25% in the previous year, increased use of date rape drugs, cases of gang rapes, campaigns, fight back, no means no.
