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Behavioural Types of Rape

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Trevor Gibbens ,
Cynthia Way  and
Keith Soothill
Trevor Gibbens
Affiliation:
University of London; Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF
Cynthia Way
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry
Keith Soothill
Affiliation:
University of Lancaster
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Summary

The previous and subsequent convictions of all those charged with rape in 1961 were studied, together with circumstances of the criminal offence. The proportion of victims whose names were published in newspapers was high (26 per cent), and a high proportion of accused were acquitted (22 per cent). They fell fairly obviously into paedophiliac rapes of girls under 14 (30 per cent), ‘aggressive’ rapists (20 per cent) with a record of other aggressive offences, and ‘others' (50 per cent) with few if any other convictions. Various aspects of the records of these groups are considered. The paedophiles tended to have a wider age range and more often pleaded or were found guilty, and more of them received a medical disposal, rare in others. A small but similar proportion of acquitted and convicted were subsequently convicted of another rape.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 130 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 32 - 42
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists 1977 

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