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Police Officers' Perceptions of Rape
Is There Consistency Between State Law and Individual Beliefs?
REBECCA CAMPBELL
University of Illinois at Chicago
CAMILLE R. JOHNSON
Michigan State University
This study examined how police officers (N = 91) define rape. In the past decade, most states have dramatically reformed their rape laws, shifting the emphasis from the behavior of the victim to that of the assailant. This study provides an exploratory picture of how such reforms have affected police by examining the degree to which there was consistency between officers' personal definitions of rape and state law. Officers were asked to define rape/sexual assault in their own words. These definitions were content analyzed, and hierarchical cluster analysis was performed. Three clusters of definitions emerged. Nineteen percent of the sample described many of the reformed legal factors when defining rape, such as the use or threat of force (Force Definition of Rape). Thirty-one percent focused primarily on penetration and consent (Consent Definition of Rape). Fifty-one percent of the officers provided definitions that mixed old legal definitions with some victim blaming views (Mixed Definition of Rape).
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 12, No. 2,
255-274 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/088626097012002007
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