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Male Rape Myths: Understanding and Explaining Social Attitudes Surrounding Male Rape

open access: yesMasculinities and Social Change, 2015
This paper provides a critical review of the literature surrounding male rape, aimed at exploring how male rape myths shape society’s responses and attitudes to male victims of rape and integrates the literature from a theory driven perspective.
Aliraza Javaid
doaj   +2 more sources

Engineering herbicide‐resistant oilseed rape by CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated cytosine base‐editing

open access: yesPlant Biotechnology Journal, 2020
CRISPR/Cas9-based base editor (BE) technology that enables precise base-editing has been developed and applied in several plant species, including Arabidopsis, rice, wheat, maize, tomato and cotton. However, it is not clear whether base editing will work
Jian Wu   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dealing With Rape Cases in Ghana: The Law, the Victim and the Offender

open access: yesSexual Offending, 2023
Rape is a criminal offence in all countries of the world. However, what constitutes rape in the legal sense differs from country to country, with many common law countries sharing some similarities in their definition of rape.
Jacob Mensah Agboli
doaj   +1 more source

Rape myth acceptance, victim blame attribution and Just World Beliefs: a rapid evidence assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Rape is underreported, potentially because individuals self-blame and/or are blamed by others. Research predominantly illustrates male-perpetrated stranger-rape of females; thus, there may be a perception that rape myth acceptance (RMA) and
Hand, Christopher J.   +1 more
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What do we know about rape myths and juror decision making?

open access: yes, 2020
This paper presents overwhelming evidence that prejudicial and false beliefs held by jurors about rape affect their evaluation of the evidence and their decision making in rape cases.
F. Leverick
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of nitrogen fertilizer application rate and time to first harvest on leaf area index; leaf nitrate content and yield of irrigated leaf rape (Brassica napus L. var. Giant)

open access: yesInternational Journal of Horticultural Science, 2021
In Zimbabwe, smallholder cultivation of leaf rape is of considerable importance due to the increasing demand for the leaf vegetable from the rapidly increasing urban populations.
J. Masaka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nuptial Rape: Rape Within Marriage

open access: yesIndian Journal of Social Science and Literature, 2023
Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 Criminalizes ’Rape’ under Offences Affecting the Human Body, where prevails an oddly fitted exception to this Section, which states: Sexual intercourse by a man with his wife who is not less than 15 years of age does not amount to the offence of rape.
Aneesh Gupta, Aashita Mehta
openaire   +1 more source

Psychopathy and proclivity to accept rape myths as predictors of negative attitudes towards victims of rape: the moderating role of narcissism

open access: yesEgyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2023
Background Rape myths may harm those who have been sexually assaulted, according to the past literature. This study looked at the associations between grandiose narcissism, psychopathic characteristics, and rape myth acceptance and attitudes towards rape
Syed Messum Ali Kazmi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Blaming the Victim of Acquaintance Rape: Individual, Situational, and Sociocultural Factors

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Victims of rape are uniquely vulnerable for being blamed for their assault relative to victims of other interpersonal crimes and thus much research has been conducted to understand why this is the case.
C. Gravelin   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Could There Ever be an App for that? Consent Apps and the Problem of Sexual Assault [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Rape and sexual assault are major problems. In the majority of sexual assault cases consent is the central issue. Consent is, to borrow a phrase, the ‘moral magic’ that converts an impermissible act into a permissible one.
John, Danaher
core   +1 more source

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