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Angelone, David J.; Mitchell, Damon; Lucente, Lauren – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The purpose of the current study is to examine the influence of multiple offender motivations (including no indication of a motivation), relationship length, and gender role beliefs on perceptions of a male-on-female date rape. A sample of 348 U.S. college students read a brief vignette depicting a date rape and completed a questionnaire regarding…
Descriptors: Motivation, Rape, Anxiety, Victims of Crime
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Saucier, Donald A.; Hockett, Jericho M.; Zanotti, Danielle C.; Heffel, Sarah – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The majority of hate crimes in the United States are driven by racial bias. However, extra-legal factors such as the perpetrators' motivations, the races of the victims and perpetrators, and the presence or absence of hate symbols or slurs often result in ambiguity in the classification of crimes as hate crimes. This uncertainty evokes…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Crime, Victims of Crime, Racial Bias
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Kubik, Elizabeth K.; Hecker, Jeffrey E. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2005
Cognitive distortions about sexual offending were examined in 11 girls who committed sexual offenses, 12 girls who committed non-sexual criminal offenses, and 21 girls with no history of sexual or non-sexual offending. Participants responded to 12 vignettes that described sexual contact between an adolescent girl and a younger boy. The vignettes…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Females, Criminals