Social and Cultural Factors in Sexual Assault
Published 1 January 1990
Lana Stermac, Zindel V. Segal, Roy Gillis
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Abstract
The search for causes of sexual aggression has included the examination of many factors, including intra- and interpersonal as well as social and cultural variables. The role of social processes has received considerable attention in this area due to various hypotheses about the relationship between social interaction and sexual aggression.
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