The Epidemic of Rape and Child Sexual Abuse in the United States
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: July 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780761903024
Subjects: Child abuse; Crime & criminology; Victims of crimes surveys; Rape; Children's Studies; Social Science; Sociology; United States; USA; Research; Abuse - General; Violence in Society; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Child sexual abuse; Human Services; Evaluation
First sentence: This chapter will focus on four important issues that are relevant to rape prevalence research: legal definitions of rape, definitions of rape used by researchers who study the prevalence of rape, some of the reasons for women's reluctance to disclose their rape experiences, and the methodological problem of telescoping in rape research.