Despite the increased recognition that the topic of marital rape has generated in the past 2
decades, the literature in this area remains sparse. This article provides a comprehensive …

The current paper represents a comprehensive review of marital rape, including its legal
history and numerous aspects of its perpetration and victimization. Specifically, this review …

The widely read and highly praised bestseller It Could Happen to Anyone offers a unique
amalgamation of the practical clinical experience of Alyce LaViolette and the extensive …

This study contrasted the effects of intimate partner and nonpartner sexual assault on
women's mental health among a sample (N= 835) of low-income, ethnically diverse …

" Every year thousand of women are raped by someone they know and never report the
sexual assault, partly because acquaintance rape is still widely misunderstood in our society …

In The Victimization of Women, Michelle Meloy and Susan Miller present a balanced and
comprehensive summary of the most significant research on the victimizations, violence, and …

This study explored what actions taken by married women to dissolve their marital
relationships might result in different attributions about husband rape perpetration. A sample …

In this paper, the legal history of marital rape and the current status of “marital rape
allowances” to sexual assault statutes are reviewed. The prevalence of marital rape and its …

Using a community sample (n= 296), we investigated the associations between sexual
behavior norm beliefs, acceptance of partner rape, judgments that non-consensual partner …

The small amount of literature on marital rape compared to the rather large amount of
literature on stranger rape suggests that the former is viewed as a less serious crime. This …