Sexuality, Violence, and Emotional Aftereffects: A Longitudinal Study of Victims of Forcible Rape and Sexual Deviance in Cases Reported to the Police

Abstract

Whenever people in our society talk about sexuality, and especially when they discuss deviant sexual behavior or sex offensses, the discussion tends to be filled with emotional upset.

This article is a summary of a larger final report of a research project conducted at the Criminological Reserach Unit of the Bundeskriminalamt (Federal Office of Criminal Police) of the Federal Republic of Germany. A summary was given at the Fourth International Symposium on Victimology in Japan (see Baurmann, M.C. (1986). Longitudinal study of cases of sexual assault: Typology and emotional after-effects. In K. Miyazawa & M. Ohya (Eds.), Victimology in Comparative Perspective (pp. 211-217). Tokyo: Seibundo).The complete study was published in 1983 under the title “Sexualität, Gewalt und psychische Folgen. Eine LĀngsschnittuntersuchung bei Opfern sexueller Gewalt und sexueller Normverletzungen anhand von angezeigten “Sexualkontakten” (for translation, see chapter title) BKA-Forschungsreihe (Vol. 15) Weisbaden, FRG. This final report contains all methodological and statistical details, as well as a comprehensive bibliography.