A Multivariate Model of Victim-Offender Interaction in Multiple Perpetrator Rape of Male Victims

• In Event: Sexual Assault Issues

Abstract

Although constituting a significant minority of total sexual assault cases, research into the characteristics of male on male rape is limited with that committed by multiple perpetrators particularly so. To date, studies that have developed typologies of multiple perpetrator rape have focused almost exclusively on rape involving female victims and there is an open question how applicable such typologies are to multiple perpetrator offences involving male victims. Using multivariate statistical analysis this study examines the behavioural structure of 113 multiple perpetrated offences involving 299 offenders with the aim of developing a model of offender-victim interaction. The findings are discussed in relation to both existing multivariate models of female victim rape and the implications for understanding the possible motivations for this crime.

Author

• Samantha Lundrigan, Anglia Ruskin University