Citation

Volk P, Hilgarth M, Kolter J. MMW Munch. Med. Wochenschr. 1979; 121(40): 1279-1284.

Vernacular Title

Zur Viktimologie des Sexualverbrechens. Nachuntersuchungen der Opfer und Konsequenzen für Verhalten, Prophylaxe und Therapie.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1979, Verlagsgesellschaft OttoSpatz)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

114808

Abstract

Medico-legal and criminological examinations of 93 sexual crimes are reported. This figure comprises all the crimes which have become known to the police during a certain period in one region. It is suggested that the medical examination by confined to specific wards of the gynecological hospital so that psychological care can be provided and the customary criminological investigation methods be changed. For preventive reasons, a general expertise of the offenders and credibility examinations of victims and offenders seem to be called for in the absence of satisfactory evidence. Physical resistance on the part of the victim in the present cases led to a significant increase in the injury and death rate. How far traditional social views toward women favor sexual crime is discussed.

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