Reports of rape reperpetration by newly enlisted male navy personnel

Violence and Victims

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 204-218

  McWhorter, Stephanie K ^a,c   Stander, Valerie A ^a   Merrill, Lex L ^a   Thomsen, Cynthia J ^b   Milner, Joel S ^b  

^a Naval Health Research Center   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Longitudinal study; Perpetrator; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MILITARY SERVICE; NAVY; RAPE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 66349088864     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.2.204     Document Type: Article

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