1. Crimes against Women Rape/Sexual Assault Battering/Assault
Intimate Violence: Includes battering, and some rape/sexual assault cases

2. Prevalence Rates Rape & sexual assault Battering From NCVS 270/100,000
1/5th are by “intimates”
Lifetime chances of rape for women = 18-25%, depending upon study
75% of rapes are perpetrated by offenders “known to” the woman
Battering
NCVS: 400/100,000
Conflict Tactic Scale Studies: 12% of husbands battered in past year, 27% ever in marriage
Given patterns of underreporting, true rates are assumed to be higher

3. Social Correlates Age Race Class Individual Correlates?
Social Correlates (especially race and class) as a political “hot button”
Individual Correlates?
The issue of “abnormality”

4. Controversies Are rape and battering different from other crimes?
Need separate explanation?
Do “mainstream theories” apply?
The issue of “Sexual Symmetry” in marital violence

5. Reducing Crimes Against Women
The Sherman Experiment (1992)
Replication attempts
Unintended consequences
Rehabilitation?
Patriarchy and Social Change