Dressler, pp. 353-357:
Only about a third of rapes
are reported, and only about half of those result in an arrest.
More or less all rape
perpetrators are male, and 90% of victims are female.
Rape happens predominantly at
night, with acquaintances, near the victim’s home, with a single offender. Usually the victim tries to resist.
Notes and Questions
1.
Here
are two sides of a debate: are rape victims
discriminated against? The answer seems
to be: not in general, but acquaintance rape victims seem to be
treated worse. Stranger rapes are far
more likely to be reported, and thus more likely to be prosecuted. One reason is that people are far less
willing to press charges against people they know.
2.
A
critic could argue that if you really want to find rape, and you ask the right
questions, you’ll get rape, unless nobody’s having sex at all, ever.
3.
There
is probably an aspect of a greater social stigma surrounding same-sex rape, as
well as issues of sexual orientation.