Violent Crimes: The Causes Of Rape

in some common law jurisdictions, statutory rape is sexual activity in which at least one person is below the age required to legally consent to an act of sexual intercourse. The term statutory rape generally refers to sex between an adult and a sexually mature minor past the age of puberty. Sexual relations with a prepubescent child, also known as child sexual abuse or molestation, is typically treated as a more serious crime. Laws vary in their definitions of statutory rape. It is generally intended to punish heinous cases of an adult taking sexual advantage of a minor. Thus, many jurisdictions prohibit allowing a juvenile to be tried as an adult under this law. Often, teenage couples engage in sexual intercourse as part of an intimate

Rape by strangers is usually less common than rape by people the victim knows, and several studies argue that male-on-male and female-on-female prison rapes are common and may be the least reported forms of rape. People who have been raped can be severely traumatized and may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, as well as psychological harm, rape may cause physical injury, or have additional side effects on the victims, such as the obtaining of sexually transmitted infections or becoming pregnant. There is no explanation for the motivation for rape; the motives of rapists can vary and are subject to debate. Several factors have been proposed: anger; a desire for power. American clinical psychologist David Lisak, author of a landmark 2002 study of undetected rapists, says that compared with non-rapists, both undetected and convicted rapists are noticeably more angry at women and more motivated by a desire to dominate and control them, they are more impulsive, and

Contemporary documents say that after a conquest, the Mongol soldiers looted, pillaged and raped. According to Rogerius of Apulia, a monk who survived the Mongol invasion of Hungary, the Mongol warriors "found pleasure" in humiliating local women. The systematic rape of as many as 80,000 women by the Japanese soldiers during the six weeks of the Nanking Massacre is an example of such atrocities. During World War II an estimated 200,000 Korean and Chinese women were forced into prostitution in Japanese military brothels, as so-called "Comfort women". French Moroccan troops known as Goumiers committed rapes and other war crimes after the Battle of Monte Cassino. French women in Normandy complained about rapes during the liberation of Normandy. Soldiers raping women and girls was common in many areas occupied by the Red Army. A female Soviet war correspondent described what she had witnessed: "The Russian soldiers were raping every German female from eight to eighty. It was an army of rapists." although estimates vary from 5,000 to 200,000. Hungarian girls were kidnapped and taken to Red Army quarters, where they were imprisoned, repeatedly raped and sometimes