Literature Review - Male Rape.

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Cri 204 Assignment two Helen Telfer

Literature Review

Male Rape

For this second assignment I have been asked to produce a literature review in which I critically analyse the research in area covered in one of the lectures. The review should show that I have studied existing research within the field with insight. My chosen area of interest is male rape. I have chosen this topic as I feel it would be an interesting topic to explore.

The literature I will be looking at is mainly from the United Kingdom but also from the United States of America. I will use sources such as academic textbooks, lecture notes and Internet sources. Literature on male rape is few and far between as before early studies show they tended to focus on female rape, it is only in the past 7 years that male rape has become more common. (Chesters 1998)

From just looking at the various pieces of literature I have gathered I can say quite early on in this review that not a lot of it focus on male rape.

I looked at Allen (2002) who had already written a