Sexual Assault and Its Prosecution: A Comparison with Other Crimes
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-)Published 1 January 1982
Martha A. Myers, Gary LaFree
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This research signals an important shift in the focus and assumptions underlying criminological research, as it focuses on the purpose and application of laws prohibiting sexual assault.
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In this article, sexual assault is a generic term for forcible sex offenses such as rape, sodomy, and assault and battery with intent to rape or gratify.Although the feministconflict perspective focuses most explicitly on forcible rape, the general thrust of their argument and its implicit assumptions apply as well to other felonies involving forcible intercourse.
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