Deck 12: Sexual Assault

Question 1

Which statement reflects the just world hypothesis?

A) Rapists should be executed.
B) Rapists deserve to be chemically castrated.
C) Rapists should never receive parole from prison.
D) Women who are raped deserve it.
E) Rapists are sick.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

_____ is the term used by the FBI in the gathering of crime reporting and arrest statistics for Part I crimes.

A) Sexual offense
B) Sexual assault
C) Criminal sexual conduct
D) Unlawful intercourse
E) Forcible rape

Answer 2

E

Question 3

Which of the following is not a provision of the Adam Walsh Child Protection Act?

A) Establishment of a national database system for reporting by states
B) Increased penalties for sex trafficking of children
C) Tier 3 offenders must update their location every three months for the rest of their lives.
D) Tier 1 and Tier 2 must update their location every three months for 3 years.
E) Failure to register and update whereabouts is a federal felony.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The forceful physical resistance strategy of rape resistance may reduce the probability of _____ and increases the risk of _____.

A) identifying the attacker; rape completion
B) physical injury; sexual trauma
C) rape completion; physical injury to the victim.
D) violent behavior; rape completion
E) infuriating the attacker; rape completion.

Question 5

Victimization data indicate that approximately ____ of rapes go unreported.

A) one-third
B) two-thirds
C) one-half
D) three-quarters
E) one-fourth

Question 6

The Knight and Sims-Knight Three-path model identifies causal pathways in the development of:

A) irresistible impulses.
B) mental disorders of rapists.
C) attitudes that support rape.
D) victim resistance to rape.
E) sexual coercive behavior in male offenders.

Question 7

Which of the following is an example of rape by fraud?

A) A 20-year-old male having sexual relations with a 13-year-old female
B) A male slipping a date-rape drug into the drink of a female, then having sexual relations with her
C) A male having sexual relations with a consenting female under an assumed name
D) A therapist having sexual relations with a consenting patient under the guise of effective treatment
E) A 14-year-old who pretends to be 19 in order to have sex with a 20 year old.

Question 8

The UCR includes statutory rape in its statistical data of rape if:

A) the girl is underage and force is used.
B) the boy is underage and force is used.
C) the girl is under age, regardless of whether or not force is used.
D) a and b
E) none of the above

Question 9

The rapist motivated by anger-retaliation in the MTC:R3 is similar to the ____ type described in the original MTC.

A) compensatory
B) impulsive
C) sexually-aggressive
D) displaced-aggression
E) sadistic

Question 10

In the MTC:R3, the primary motivations are sometimes subdivided according to:

A) social competence.
B) secondary motivations.
C) history of offending.
D) responsivity to treatment.
E) emotional state at time of assault.

Question 11

According to the dominant contemporary theories of the etiology of rape:

A) rapists are mentally disturbed.
B) sexual socialization plays a crucial role in sexual assault.
C) rapists have compulsive physiological urges to rape.
D) women socialize boys to be aggressive and dominant.
E) most rapists have had abusive childhoods.

Question 12

Recent statistics suggest that about _____ percent of all forcible rapes are committed by husbands or dates.

A) 25
B) 40
C) 13
D) 67
E) 7

Question 13

The category of sexual aggression in which the offender becomes sexually aroused by physical or psychological brutality is called:

A) eroticized aggression.
B) expressive sexual aggression.
C) coercive sexual aggression.
D) instrumental sexual aggression.
E) systemic sexual aggression.

Question 14

Which of the following is not one of the four primary motivations of rapists outlined in the revised MTC:R3 classification scheme?

A) Sexual gratification
B) Pervasive anger
C) Pervasive hatred
D) Opportunity
E) Vindictiveness

Question 15

Which of the following is one of Groth's three categories of rape?

A) Control rape
B) Forceful rape
C) Anger rape
D) Opportunity rape
E) Juvenile rape

Question 16

Research on rape reveals that, in general, men who rape:

A) are addicted to sex.
B) have uncontrollable or irresistible impulses to rape.
C) are suffering from various forms of mental illness.
D) suffer from displaced anger at their mothers
E) none of the above.

Question 17

Martin, Taft, and Resick (2007) estimate that 10-14% of _____ have experienced rape.

A) males under age 17
B) married women
C) female college students
D) females under age 17
E) male high school students

Question 18

According to Groth, the smallest percentage of rapists (about 5%) fall under what category?

A) Control rape
B) Power rape
C) Anger rape
D) Sadistic rape
E) Impulsive rape

Question 19

Research by Scully and Marolla found that most "admitters":

A) saw themselves as nice guys.
B) blamed an unhappy childhood for their behavior.
C) saw themselves as bad guys.
D) saw nothing wrong in their rape behavior.
E) blamed the woman for the attack.

Question 20

Which type of rapist rapes in response to an intense sexual arousal initiated by specific stimuli?

A) Compensatory rapist
B) Sadistic rapist
C) Impulsive rapist
D) Displaced aggression
E) Vindictive offender

Question 21

MDSO is an acronym for:

A) manic depressive sex offender.
B) mentally disabled sex offender.
C) multiple diastolic sex offender.
D) morally dissuaded sex offender.
E) mentally disordered sex offender.

Question 22

Research by Scully and Marolla on deniers and admitters found five major themes running through deniers' explanations for their rape behavior. Which one of the following was not one of them?

A) Attractive women are more seductive in their behavior than unattractive women.
B) Women mean "yes" when they say "no."
C) Most women eventually relax and enjoy it.
D) Nice girls don't get raped.
E) It's no big deal because the women weren't hurt.

Question 23

Research shows that a major motivation for rape is to:

A) harm or derogate the victim.
B) instigate sexual arousal in the victim.
C) act out a sexual fantasy.
D) satisfy a biological impulse.
E) show the victim who's boss.

Question 24

Abel and his associates found that men convicted of rape:

A) show high and nearly equal sexual arousal to portrayals of both violent, nonconsenting sexual acts and nonviolent, consenting sexual acts.
B) were more sexually aroused toward attractive victims than nonattractive victims.
C) felt they had little control over their sexual impulses.
D) have a very limited ability to fantasize.
E) were using drugs at the time of the crime.

Question 25

The United States has the highest reported incidence of rape in the world.

Question 26

Which one of the following is an example of a sex offender registration and notification law?

A) Shannon's Law
B) The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act
C) Violence Against Women Act
D) Copycat Law
E) Three Strikes Law

Question 27

The Groth rape typology is similar to the original MTC typology, except that Groth:

A) emphasizes the motives for the rape.
B) has more categories of rape behavior than the MTC.
C) has better behavioral descriptions of the categories.
D) emphasizes victim reactions.
E) includes homosexual rape.

Question 28

Attempting to reason with the attacker often reduces physical injury during rape.

Question 29

The terms sexually violent predator and sexual psychopath are synonymous.

Question 30

Sex offenders are a homogenous group, markedly similar in age, race and socioeconomic status.

Question 31

There is a direct causal relationship between pornography and sexual aggression.

Question 32

Most adult rapists:

A) regularly view pornography.
B) subscribe to attitudes and ideology that encourage men to dominate and control women.
C) are mentally disordered.
D) have considerable facial hair.
E) are married.

Question 33

The sexual-addiction approach to explaining offending is an example of a(n) _____ assumption about why men rape.

A) drug
B) victim
C) disease
D) irresistible impulse
E) c and d

Question 34

Most rapists are between 35-45 years old.

Question 35

Many mental health clinicians do not consider sex offenders to be clinically mentally disordered.

Question 36

Which statement most accurately describes male rape?

A) Compared to females, males are often less traumatized by rape.
B) Male rape victims don't exist.
C) Male rape is not considered a crime.
D) Male rape survivors are as traumatized by rape as female survivors.
E) None of the above.

Question 37

According to the text, although myths about rape are changing, college students continue to hold myths about _____ rape.

A) date
B) marital
C) homosexual
D) statutory
E) forcible

Question 38

Most adolescent sex offenders have a diagnosed mental disorder.

Question 39

The original MTC had five major classifications and ten subtypes.

Question 40

Rape is widely believed to be the most underreported crime.

Question 41

How do some rapists justify their crime? Define just world hypothesis and include how this term plays a role in the justification of rape.

Question 42

What are the common factors in the etiology of sex offending, and what factors are unlikely to account significantly for this offending?

Question 43

How did Groth classify child molesters? Describe all of his classifications.

Question 44

Discuss what we know about the relationship between pornography and sexual assault

Question 45

Discuss the reasons some criminologists are concerned that sex offender registries may be unwise public policy. What is your opinion of sex offender registries?

Question 46

Choose one of the laws passed in the last two decades to deter sex offenders and discuss in detail.

Question 47

Contrast the Massachusetts Treatment Center's original classification of rapists with its most recently revised version.

Question 48

Explain the Knight and Knight-Sims three-path model.

Question 49

What does research tell us about resistance and rape.

Question 50

Summarize the research on the prevalence of acquaintance rape.

Question 51

Describe the steps law enforcement agencies have taken to ease a rape victim's ordeal when dealing with the criminal justice system?

Question 52

Describe three of the rape myths discussed in the Chapter.