Essay On Typology Of Rapists

In this essay I will be discussing the limits of typologies of rapists as well as analysing their motivations. There is no power of crime and violence as fraught with misunderstanding and fault as that of sexual violence. Perhaps the largest sign of the degree to which sexual violence is viewed through many veils of myth is the following inconsistency in violent crimes, as measured by sentencing guidelines, rape ranks only second to homicide, and in some cases it ranks even higher.

Rape as legally defined appears a relatively straightforward concept but the reality is that rape and whether it has actually taken place, the issue of consent and the existence of evidence of such an act, are extremely difficult to approach. Traditionally, rape

Power rapist are motivated by their need to control and dominate their victim, and inversely, to avoid being controlled by the victim. The anger rapist is filled with extreme rage and resentment towards women. Most rapists were actually a combination of power and anger motivations; however, a control of one or the other was often clear. The third and the far smaller type is the sadistic rapist. This type of rapist is lead by the sexual gratification they experienced when they inflicted pain on their victim. The sadistic rapist has become a staple of the American media, but these, once again, extremely rare cases. Groth’s identification of anger and power as the primary motivations behind rape has endured, and has become the basis for attempts at defining more refined taxonomies of rape. These efforts have largely yielded modest results, and have focused on identifying blends of power and anger motivations, and on distinguishing developmental antecedents for the various types. Not surprisingly, among those developmental antecedents, one of the most prominent is a history of childhood abuse. Sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect are all significantly more prevalent in the backgrounds of rapists than in the backgrounds of no offending