Rape and Social Structure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13660906 |
|---|---|
| Authors | D Lester (0000-0003-1357-8672, Richard Stockton State College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 146-146 |
| Publication date | 1974-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1974.35.1.146 |
| OpenAlex | W2034360129 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
It has been suggested by Svastolga (1962) that rape is more common in communities where the number of females as compared to the number of males is relatively low. This means that legitimate sexual outlets with females will be relatively less available and so the males will turn to illegitimate outlets relatively more often. However, there has been no good test of this hypothesis. Svastolga himself merely compared urban and rural areas for the sex ratio and the incidence of rape, but his findings are clearly confounded by the urban-rural variable. T o test this hypothesis more adequately, the incidence of rape by state in the USA for 1970 was correlated with the sex ratio, these data coming from the U. S. Bureau of the Census (1970). The product-moment correlation was 0.12 (df = 48) and did not reach statistical significance. Amir (1971) has noted that rape is more common among blacks than among whites. Indeed, the correlation over the states of the USA between the proportion of blacks in the state and the incidence of rape was 0.22 (df = 48, one-tailed p < 0.10). However, the correlation between the incidence of rape and the sex ratio for the black population of each state was -0.26 (df = 48, onetailed p < 0.05), which is in a direction opposite to the hypothesis of Svastolga. I t appears that there are presently no data to support the hypothesis that rape is more common where there are relatively fewer females available
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1977 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |