About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

21 Women & Crim. Just. 1 (2011)

handle is hein.journals/wwcj21 and id is 1 raw text is: Women & CriminalJustice, 21:1-20, 2011 Routledge Copyright 0 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Group ISSN: 0897-4454 print/1541-0323 online DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2011.536045 Articles Traditional Gender Role and Rape Myth Acceptance: From the Countryside to the Big City LAURA L. KING and JENNIFER J. ROBERTS Department of Criminology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA Previous research on rape myths has identified apositive correlation between the acceptance of traditional gender roles and rape myths. Based on earlier research citing theprevalence of these gender roles among rural cultures, it was bypothesized that individuals from rural-farm areas would be more accepting of traditional gender roles and rape myths than their more urban counterparts. Contrary to previous literature on the rural culture milieu, the degree of rur- ality of one's hometown was notfound to be statisticaly significant in relation to the acceptance of traditional gender roles and rape myths. However, consistent with past research, traditional gender role acceptance wasfound to be the strongestpredictor of rape myth acceptance in this sample of university students. KEYWORDS rape myths, rural culture, traditional gender roles, violence against women INTRODUCTION Rape is one of the most underreported crimes in the United States. In 2007, there were 248,300 incidents of rape or sexual assault reported by the National Crime Victimization Survey (Rand 2008). Conversely, in 2007, only 90,427 incidents of forcible rape were recorded by the Uniform Crime Reports (Federal Bureau of Investigation 2007a). This discrepancy suggests that less than half of the incidents were reported to police in 2007. Although Address correspondence to Laura L. King, Department of Criminology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 200 Wilson Hall, 411 North Walk, Indiana, PA 15705, USA. E-mail: smfp@ iup.edu

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most