EPILOGUE
TOWARD THE FUTURE
The eradication of rape is contingent on educating and sensitizing
our society to the meaning of the crime and the context in which it
occurs. Innovative and empathetic services to victims will serve as
a deterrent to the crime by facilitating reportage and thereby apprehension and prosecution of the assailants. Ultimately, however, the
elimination of rape will require a massive reconsideration and
restructuring of social values as well as a reorientation of the relations between the sexes. It is the thesis of this author that when
the sex roles of both men and women are defined by individual
needs and talents rather than by stereotypic expectations based on
sex and power motives, only then will there be an end to rape.In the meantime, there is much unknown and undone regarding
the rape victim. What follows is a summary of the research questions which demand our attention:TOWARD THE FUTURE
| 1. | What are the immediate and chronic effects of rape in the context of the victim's place in the life cycle, and what are the treatment implications? |
| 2. | What is the long-term impact of rape with regard to developmental aspects of sexual and aggressive drives? |
| 3. | What is the frequency of a prior rape among women who are currently psychiatric patients? Numerical and descriptive data may serve in part to clarify the first and second questions. |
| 4. | Can we identify and describe a sample of victims who do not come to public attention? All available information about victims is necessarily gleaned from a sample population which reports to either hospital or law enforcement. A survey of private physicians may provide information about a silent subgroup which may differ from the group who reports. |
| 5. | What is the impact of rape by a stranger as compared with rape by an assailant known to the victim? |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Rape Victim:A Project of the Committee on Women of the American Psychiatric Association .
Contributors: Elaine Hilberman - Author.
Publisher: Basic Books.
Place of publication: New York.
Publication year: 1976.
Page number: Not available.
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