SOC101Y1 : Condensed Reading Notes "Roofies..."
Document Summary
Weiss and coyler: the persistence of the date-rape d rug crime narr ative. This article examines the origins and persistence of the roofies"" story, a crime narrative that emerged during the mid 1990s, warning women to guard their drinks against lurking predators seeking to incapacitate and rape them. Such dfsa incidents were relatively unknown before the 1990s. This is not to suggest that intentional drugging of persons for the intent to commit sexual crime never occurred prior to 1990. Yet, despite the story"s ubi- quity, there has been little empirical evidence to suggest that drug-induced sexual assault, as embodied in the roofies narrative, is anything more than a rare but tragic occurrence. When drugs are involved in the crime of rape, it is almost always as a result of victims voluntarily drinking alcohol, using drugs (most often cocaine and marijuana), or mixing drugs with alcohol.
