### person | criminal:

Rapist
* All rapists have the potential to be violent.
* Many rapists are married or have sex partners
  - begin as voyeurs, peeking into windows, before actually breaking into homes
  - carry a weapon and threaten the victim with violence or death
  - do, however, have similar motivations for committing acts of sexual violence
  - have wives or girlfriends with which they have sex
  - use objects to violate women
* Most rapists appear to be normal everyday people and most even have consenting sex partners.
* Most rapists are heterosexual
  - psychopaths with uncontrollable sexual urges
  - repeat offenders
* Most rapists have access to a sexual partner
  - available normal sexual relationships
  - kill their victim
  - only rape one time
* Some rapists are married with children
  - insert foreign objects into the vagina
* are criminals
  - emotionally unstable persons who view their victims are objects, rather that people
* are impulsive and can t control their desires
  - sexually frustrated
* are largely divorced men and widowers
  - indistinguishable from the rest of the population
  - located in jails
  - lonely, sexually unfulfilled men
  - mentally ill or psychotic
  - mostly psychotic men
  - no different than the average man, physically, sexually or psychologically
  - ordinary men with more ordinary men's conditioning than usual
  - particularly susceptible to the deterrence of a potentially armed woman
  - responsible for rape
  - sick people who strike at random
  - strangers
* are usually strangers
  - unattractive, mentally ill people from low socioeconomic backgrounds
* can appear to be the nicest of people.
* can be both male or female
  - total strangers, casual acquaintances, or close friends
* cause rape.
* choose victims who are vulnerable
  - look or who are vulnerable
* come from all races, ages, socioeconomic backgrounds, and lifestyles
  - ethnic or socioeconomic groups
  - social and professional backgrounds
  - in many forms
* deserve to be raped.
* differ in motive and treatment of their victims.
* don t stop raping.
* force sex on their victims in order to obtain sexual satisfaction.
* have desire to dominate, humiliate, and degrade their victims
  - uncontrollable sexual urges and are often mentally ill, psychotic, etc
  - victims instead of partners
* impersonate policemen, immigration officers, and doctors.
* invade the privacy of their victims in horrific ways.
* is an attacker
* make active, conscious choices.
* often use alcohol or drugs to incapacitate their victims
  - humiliating and disprespectful slang to describe their sexual exploits and prey
* rape on purpose.
* seek to control or humiliate other people
  - dominate and humiliate their victims
* sometimes use alcohol to incapacitate a victim or drink themselves.
* speak in a male voice and act in our name.
* tend to prey on women who look frightened, easily intimidated, or day dreaming
  - target women, rather than men
* use myths to support their actions and condone their behavior
  - rape drugs as weapons to sedate and overpower their victims
  - sex as a way to hurt and humiliate women
  - sexual assault as a weapon to hurt and dominate others
* use sexual violence as a weapon to control, humiliate and hurt their victims
  - to dominate their victims, to express anger and to feel powerful
* usually assault more than one person
  - choose women who look vulnerable
  - feel inadequate and confuse sexual violence with sex
+ Rape: Medical emergencies
  * In most countries, rape is one of most serious crimes. A person who rapes someone is a rapist. Rapists may use violence, drugs, or threats to get their way. People of any gender can be raped. Girls and women or boys and men may stay quiet about a rape because they might feel ashamed about it. Rapists can be both male or female.