Chapter 8: Sexual Victimization

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. Which type of rape occurs when a victim was deliberately given drugs or alcohol so the perpetrator could commit the act of rape?

A. forcible rape

B. drug- or alcohol-facilitated rape

C. incapacitated rape

D. statutory rape

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Which type of rape occurs when the offender uses or threatens to use force to achieve penetration?

A. forcible rape

B. drug- or alcohol-facilitated rape

C. incapacitated rape

D. statutory rape

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. Which type of rape occurs when someone has sex with a person under the legal age of consent, even if that person may have verbally consented to the act?

A. forcible rape

B. drug- or alcohol-facilitated rape

C. incapacitated rape

D. statutory rape

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Which type of rape occurs when a victim is violated after self-induced alcohol or drug intoxication?

A. forcible rape

B. drug- or alcohol-facilitated rape

C. incapacitated rape

D. statutory rape

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. Some states also consider the difference in age between the offender and the victim in determining whether it is ______ rape.

A. incapacitated

B. statutory

C. marital

D. forcible

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. When a perpetrator uses emotional or psychological tactics to sexually victimize an individual this is called ______.

A. sexual coercion

B. unwanted sexual contact

C. forcible rape

D. noncontact sexual abuse

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Sexual Victimization Other Than Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. What percentage of victims reported rapes that fell under categories of drug- or alcohol-facilitated or incapacitated rapes?

A. 5%

B. 11%

C. 26%

D. 34%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National Study of Drug or Alcohol Facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. What percentage of sexual victimizations involves weapons?

A. 15%

B. 24%

C. 11%

D. 50%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Weapon Use

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Which of the following is not a common reason victims may not label an act as rape?

A. unsure of what happened

B. seen as a miscommunication

C. perpetrator is someone they know

D. don’t want parents to find out they are sexually active

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Acknowledgment

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. Which of the following is not a common reason why victims choose not to report sexual victimizations?

A. not sure perpetrator intended to harm

B. reprisal of the perpetrator

C. fear of not being believed

D. afraid of being prosecuted

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Reporting

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. ______ is the term used when a victim utilizes self-protective actions that match the offender’s level and/or type of force.

A. Principle of homogamy

B. Hierarchy rule

C. Parity hypothesis

D. Equal effort rule

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resistance/Self-Protective Action

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. Which strategy of self-protection includes yelling and screaming to get away from the offender?

A. forceful physical strategies

B. nonforceful physical strategies

C. forceful verbal strategies

D. nonforceful verbal strategies

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resistance/Self-Protective Action

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. The average cost of the rape of crime to a victim, including quality of life costs is ______.

A. $2,200

B. $5,800

C. $34,000

D. $87,000

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Costs

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. Which of these laws prohibit the use of a victim’s previous sexual history to be used in a trial against his or her perpetrator?

A. rape shield laws

B. victim protection laws

C. victim privacy laws

D. victimization shield laws

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legal Aspects of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. What is the name of the law that required that sex offenders register with law enforcement agencies?

A. Adam’s Law

B. Polly’s Law

C. Jaycee’s Law

D. Megan’s Law

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sex Offender Registration and Notification

Difficulty Level: Easy

16. What percentage of cases reported to police are actually discovered to be false?

A. 2%

B. 1.6%

C. 10%

D. 25%

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Police Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

17. Which program was developed to improve treatment of rape/sexual assault victims by medical personal?

A. Sexual Assault Response Teams

B. Medical–Legal Response Teams

C. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs

D. Rape Crisis Response Program

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Medical–Legal Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

18. Which is a multiagency collaboration working toward a coordinated effort to respond to sexual assault and rape victims?

A. Sexual Assault Response Teams

B. Medical–Legal Response Teams

C. Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Programs

D. Rape Crisis Response Program

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Medical–Legal Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

19. Which act required that colleges implement sexual assault prevention policies?

A. Victims of Crime Act

B. Violence Against Women Act

C. Clery Act

D. Justice for All Act

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Prevention and Intervention

Difficulty Level: Easy

20. Which type of training seeks to increase individuals’ self-protective behaviors and psychological readiness to protect themselves against rape?

A. bystander programs

B. sexual assault prevention programs

C. self-protective action

D. sensitivity training

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resistance/Self-Protective Action

Difficulty Level: Easy

21. Rape can now be perpetrated by and against ______.

A. females

B. males

C. husbands

D. both males and females

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Easy

22. There are different types of rape, including ______.

A. statutory rape

B. incapacitated rape

C. forcible rape

D. all of these

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level:

23. ______ occurs when a person is touched in an erogenous zone, but it does not involve attempted or completed penetration.

A. Unwanted sexual contact

B. Coerced sexual contact

C. Unwanted sexual contact with force

D. Visual abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Unwanted Sexual Contact

Difficulty Level: Easy

24. ______ occurs when a perpetrator uses unwanted visual means.

A. Unwanted sexual contact

B. Coerced sexual contact

C. Unwanted sexual contact with force

D. Visual abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Noncontact Sexual Abuse

Difficulty Level: Easy

25. ______ occurs when a perpetrator says something or makes sounds that are intentionally condescending, sexual, or abusive.

A. Verbal abuse

B. Coerced sexual contact

C. Unwanted sexual contact with force

D. Visual abuse

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Noncontact Sexual Abuse

Difficulty Level: Easy

True/False

1. Force or threat of force must be an evident in order for a sexual victimization to be considered a rape.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Sexual coercion requires forcing one to engage in sexual intercourse.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexual Coercion

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. Up until 2013, rape in the UCR was limited to forcible rape.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Uniform Crime Reports

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. Sexual victimization is most likely to occur to males when they are under the age of 12.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for and Characteristics of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. Females are most at risk of sexual victimization when they are under the age of 12.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for and Characteristics of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

6. Offenders of sexual victimizations are significantly more likely to be someone the victim knows.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Offenders

Difficulty Level: Easy

7. Most victims of sexual crimes do experience a physical injury.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Injury

Difficulty Level: Easy

8. Most women do enlist some type of self-protective action during a sexual victimization.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Resistance/Self-Protective Action

Difficulty Level: Easy

9. Polygraph examinations are still required when a victim reports a rape.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Legal Aspects of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

10. The interaction between the police officer and a victim of a sex crime determines how a victim will likely interact with the rest of the criminal justice system.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Police Response

Difficulty Level: Easy

11. The Sexual Experiences Survey (SES) is a 10-item survey designed to measure verbal abuse.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Sexual Experiences Survey

Difficulty Level: Easy

12. The National College Women Sexual Victimization Study (NCWSV) is a locally representative study of college women about their experiences of rape and sexual victimization since school began in fall 1996.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National College Women Sexual Victimization Study

Difficulty Level: Easy

13. According to the National College Women Sexual Victimization Study, rape was the least likely sexual victimization to occur.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National College Women Sexual Victimization Study

Difficulty Level: Easy

14. According to the NISVS, almost one in five women have been raped during their lifetime.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey

Difficulty Level: Easy

15. College females who have a greater propensity for substance use are more likely to be sexually victimized than others.

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Risk Factors for and Characteristics of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Easy

Essay

1. How does the original definition of rape differ from the current definition of rape?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

2. Describe the two types of noncontact sexual abuse.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Noncontact Sexual Abuse

Difficulty Level: Medium

3. List and describe two behavioral and relationship effects of sexual victimization.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Behavioral and Relationship Effects

Difficulty Level: Medium

4. Describe the different types of rape.

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Rape

Difficulty Level: Medium

5. What are some risk factors for rape?

Cognitive Domain: Analysis

Answer Location: Risk Factors for and Characteristics of Sexual Victimization

Difficulty Level: Medium