Male Power and Female Victimization

Toward a Theory of Interracial Rape

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ID2210059
AutoresG Lafree (0000-0001-8418-1440, University of New Mexico, autor correspondente), Gary D Lafree
Ano1982
Volume88
Fascículo2
Páginas311-328
Data de publicação1982-09-01
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9602 • E-ISSN: 1537-5390
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/227673
OpenAlexW2068147563
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas21

Previous research in criminology assumes that rape is primarily an intraracial phenomenon. But empirical studies since the late 1950s have shown substantially higher rates of black offender-white victim (BW) than white offender-black victim rape. The present study tested two models of BW rape on a set of 443 rape victimizations collected by the National Crime Panel from 1973 to 1977. The normative model interprets BW rape as a correlate of increased social interaction between black men and white women. The conflict model interprets BW rape as a correlate of increased black politicalization. The results did not support the normative model and only partially supported the conflict model. Discriminant analysis showed that the characteristics of victims were unrelated to BW rapes and the BW rapes were less likely than other rapes to follow legitimate social interaction between the victim and offender. By contrast, BW rapes were no more violent than black or white intraracial rapes. Implications for a sexual stratification theory of interracial rape are discussed

Criminology · Medical emergency · Normative · Poison control · Political science · Power (physics) · White (mutation) · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Psychology · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Social Psychology

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