CRIM10001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Promiscuity, Casual Sex, Child Neglect
4 Aug 2018
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Seemingly monstrous offenders who engage in this crime. The lack of consent is crucial to the law"s definitions. Complexity and stigma with giving evidence makes it a much more traumatic. Incest can be more common than you think child assault experience. Much more likely that the victim won"t report rape quickly if they know the offender. Typical adult sex offender can"t read cues, other emotions underdeveloped. Intimacy deficits - real emphasis placed on childhood. Perhaps sexually assault because they fail to empathize or read body language. Trying to understand how individuals think through and rationalize to think it"s okay to rape or assault someone. Certain life experiences particularly child neglect lead people to have distorted view of the world, distorted cognitive lens of sexual offenders. We need to pay attention to our survival mechanisms, particularly between the sexes. Ancestral man devoted to casual sex way to reproduce the tribe. Evades agency or responsibility on the part of the sex offender.
