Word: groth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprising number of female jurors. Many middle-class women jurors prefer not to believe young, braless and freewheeling rape victims. In particular, the myth that victims somehow provoke and accept rape is still very much alive. "In our many years of work with the sexual offender," reports Psychologist Groth and Co-Researcher Ann Wolbert Burgess, "we have yet to find a genuine case of sexual provocation on the part of a victim...
...habitual rapists "have developed an anger and contempt for women," says Nicholas Groth, chief psychologist of the Massachusetts Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Dan gerous Persons. But he sees the core defect as "a sense of emptiness-of being nothing, and therefore having no regard for himself or for others. When you don't have anything else-job success, friend ship, family ties-your last resort for creating your own identity is sexual aggression...
...studies of the rapists sent to the center over the past 16 years, Groth and his colleagues have identified four types of the act: displaced rape (brutalizing of women to strike back at a female in the rapist's past); compensating rape (an attempt to bury insecurities by controlling a woman, and sometimes trying to impress her with sexual prowess during rape); narcissistic rape (self-gratification rather than deep hostility, as in the case of the burglar who rapes a woman who happens to be in the house he robs); and sadistic rape (sexual pleasure comes only from inflicting...
...POLICE who shot up the Panther headquarters were not so embarrassed as the mumbling commander. Just after the Panther incident, Sgt. Groth, who lead the raid told reporters his men had called for a "cease-fire" but the Panthers wouldn't agree. Groth claims a voice from the shadows shouted back, "Shoot is out!" The police, he said, "had no choice but to return fire." And the police stuck to their story, even in face of clear-cut ballistic evidence...
BUSCH-REISINGER Jan Groth Drawings, through April...