HP 421 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sexual Penetration, Sexual Assault, Sex Organ
16 Apr 2020
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Where it is accomplished against a person"s will by means of force, violence, duress, menace or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the victim or another. One study estimated up to 20-25% of college women experience completed or attempted rape during college. If drugged: call police, stay w/friends, may pass out, get urine test. Impact of sexual assault: physical, sexually transmitted infections, unplanned pregnancy. Isolation: preventing or making it difficult to see family/friends, monitoring phone calls, telling where one can and cannot go, economic control. Intrusive thoughts of violence: continuous feelings of fear, psychological experience of battered wives, cycle theory of violence (walker, 1979, 3 components, tension building stage, minor battering occurs, and wife accepts abusiveness. Interventions: adults, relocation of victim to a shelter, goal is safe harbor, provides services to foster self-sufficiency (relocation assistance, day care for kids, welfare advocacy, support groups, etc. , education and training.
