Men and women as perpetrators and victims of sexual aggression in heterosexual and same-sex encounters: A study of first-year college students in Germany

Aggressive Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 391-404

  Krahé, Barbara ^a   Berger, Anja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Female perpetrators; Male victims; Same sex contacts; Sexual aggression; Sexual victimization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME VICTIM; FEMALE; FEMALE PERPETRATORS; GERMANY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LESBIANISM; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; MALE VICTIMS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAPE; SAME-SEX CONTACTS; SEX RATIO; SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNIVERSITY; YOUNG ADULT;

FEMALE PERPETRATORS; MALE VICTIMS; SAME-SEX CONTACTS; SEXUAL AGGRESSION; SEXUAL VICTIMIZATION;

CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; RAPE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SEXUALITY; STUDENTS; UNIVERSITIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880287054     PISSN: 0096140X     EISSN: 10982337     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ab.21482     Document Type: Article

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