Author Question: Suppose that a friend says, Women could really avoid being raped, if they would only stay away from ... (Read 14 times)

michelleunicorn · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Suppose that a friend says, Women could really avoid being raped, if they would only stay away from dangerous places at night.. Your best response would be,

a. You are right, because most rapes occur at night, and the rapist is usually a man who waits for a victim who doesn't look like she will put up a fight..
b. You are partly right, because strangers are more likely than acquaintances to rape women out of doors and at night, but acquaintances are more likely to engage in sexual assault..
c. You are wrong, because women are better able to fight back when they are attacked outside, rather than in their own home..
d. You are wrong, because most women actually knew the man before he raped them..

Question 2

Research on acquaintance rape indicates that

a. approximately 50 of women will experience acquaintance rape or some other form of sexual assault from an acquaintance, during their lifetime.
b. the majority of women who have been assaulted by an acquaintanceand whose experience meets the legal definition of rapeclassify the experience as rape.
c. most claims of acquaintance rape are made by women who willingly had sex, but then regretted it later.
d. although acquaintance rape was relatively common in earlier decades, media attention to this problem has substantially decreased its incidence.