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Ms RAPE EXPERIENCES AND FEARS IN CONSIDERING THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF WOMEN'S FEAR OF RAPE (FOR), this paper will examine both the psychological elements of FOR as well
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RAPE EXPERIENCES
AND FEARS
IN CONSIDERING THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF WOMEN'S FEAR OF RAPE (FOR), this
paper will examine both the psychological elements of FOR as well as women's
experiences of rape. Information in this paper has been based on a study
conducted at the University of Queensland during 1992. All subjects in this study
were female aged eighteen years and older from non-clinical populations. There
was a total of 412 subjects, with 58.8 per cent of subjects under thirty years of
age, a median age of eighteen to nineteen years and an age range of eighteen to
sixty-seven years. A number of different populations were accessed, although the
largest group was comprised of first year psychology students completing the
questionnaire to gain credit, of which there were 133 (32.3 per cent).
Subjects were given a questionnaire investigating both their fear of being raped and a
number of questions regarding their experiences of being raped. In addition, all subjects
were asked to provide their views on, for example, how rape should be defined and what
methods they use to try and avoid being raped.
This paper will initially consider the issue of fear of rape and refer to previous studies
conducted in this area. The rest of the paper will be based on the findings of the present
study in the two main areas of FOR and descriptive variables of the rape experiences of the
subjects.
Fear of Rape (FOR) and Fear of Crime (FOC) Studies
It has been recognised within the area of criminology, since the results of the 1969 President'
Commission of Law Enforcement (USA), that the social consequences of crime are not
limited to simply the direct victims of a particular crime (Warr 1985), but that the incidence
of fear of crime within the society far outweighs the number of actual victims (Hindelang,
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