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Perspectives on rape and sexual assault / June Hopkins (editor).

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; Harper & Row, 1984.Description: xvii, 135 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0063182823
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Contents:
Foreword/ H. Beloff -- Introduction/ S. Murgatroyd -- The victim's contribution to sexual offences/ D.J. West -- Incest and sexual abuse of children/ T.C.N. Gibbens -- Aspects of violence in prostitution/ S. Cunnington -- The Social uses of sexuality : symbolic interaction, power and rape/ K. Plummer -- Police officer or doctor? Police surgeons' attitudes and opinions about rape/ R. Geis, R. Wright and G. Geis -- The Role of the Judiciary in the failure of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act to improve the treatment of the rape victim/ M. Lowe -- Crisis intervention with victims of forcible rape : a police perspective/ H.J. O'Reilly -- Loss and mourning in victims of rape and sexual assault/ J. Hopkins and E.H. Thompson.

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 118-127.

Foreword/ H. Beloff -- Introduction/ S. Murgatroyd -- The victim's contribution to sexual offences/ D.J. West -- Incest and sexual abuse of children/ T.C.N. Gibbens -- Aspects of violence in prostitution/ S. Cunnington -- The Social uses of sexuality : symbolic interaction, power and rape/ K. Plummer -- Police officer or doctor? Police surgeons' attitudes and opinions about rape/ R. Geis, R. Wright and G. Geis -- The Role of the Judiciary in the failure of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act to improve the treatment of the rape victim/ M. Lowe -- Crisis intervention with victims of forcible rape : a police perspective/ H.J. O'Reilly -- Loss and mourning in victims of rape and sexual assault/ J. Hopkins and E.H. Thompson.