This study tests a liberation
hypothesis for statutory rape incidents, specifically that there may be
same-sex and race/ethnicity arrest disparities among statutory rape incidents
and that these will be greater among statutory rape than among forcible sex
crime incidents. 26,726 reported incidents of statutory rape as defined under
state statutes and 96,474 forcible sex crime incidents were extracted from
National Incident-Based Reporting System data sets.
Arrest outcomes were tested
using multilevel modeling. Same-sex statutory rape pairings were rare but had
much higher arrest odds. A victim-offender romantic relationship amplified
arrest odds for same-sex pairings, but damped arrest odds for male-on-female
pairings.
Same-sex disparities were larger among statutory than among forcible
incidents. Female-on-male incidents had uniformly lower arrest odds.
Race/ethnicity effects were smaller than gender effects and more complexly
patterned.
The findings support the liberation hypothesis for same-sex
statutory rape arrest disparities, particularly among same-sex romantic
pairings. Support for race/ethnicity-based arrest disparities was limited and
mixed.
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By: Chaffin M1, Chenoweth S2, Letourneau EJ3.
- 1University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA mchaffin@gsu.edu.
- 2University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, OK, USA.
- 3Johns Hopkins University, MD, USA.
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