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For many students, coeducational college campus life is marred by traumatic experiences of sexual assault. While there are many social determinants of rape and attempted rape, this work examines the pivotal role of male peer support in legitimizing the sexual assault of women. The authors use extensive prior studies together with their own investigations, including a national representative study and local campus victimization surveys carried out in the United States and Canada.
Growing Up in a Rape-Supportive Culture
Growing Up in a Rape-Supportive Culture
In the previous chapter, we introduced the original male peer-support model on how certain factors can lead men to sexually assault women. Because DeKeseredy was able to find empirical support for his theory, this model was an important step forward in our understanding of how male peer-support groups can make it ...
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