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Constructing Coercion

The Organization of Sexual Assault

Brian A. Monahan

University of Delaware

Joseph A. Marolla

Virginia Commonwealth University

David G. Bromley

Virginia Commonwealth University

There is an abundance of research on how perpetrators organize and orchestrate their activity during the commission of burglary, robbery, and homicide. By contrast, there is very little research on how perpetrators organize sexual assaults. Based on interviews with 33 incarcerated rapists who acted alone and had little or no prior social connection to their victims, we describe rape events in terms of a sequential series of phases that are analogous to those employed to analyze homicides and robbery. The five phases of the kind of rape events we describe include (1) preexisting life tensions, (2) transformation of motivation into action, (3) perpetrator-victim confrontation, (4) situation management, and (5) disengagement. We also argue that within these five phases, perpetrators exhibit differential awareness of their own actions, apply divergent meanings to apparently similar actions, and engage in different degrees and types of organization.

Key Words: rape • sexual assault • coercion • deviant organization

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 34, No. 3, 284-316 (2005)
DOI: 10.1177/0891241605274555
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