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...distinctions between and within the three main genres of private violence. Slapping a spouse is different from shaking a child?an adult can more easily understand, fight back or flee?and both are very unlike rape. Of the three, rape is most unequivocally a statutory crime, and probably every rapist ought to be locked up for some time. They are real criminals. Of course, a parent who willfully scalds a child's arm is a criminal. Of course, a man who stomps his pregnant wife is a criminal. These cases are, ironically, the easiest ones to think about: when...
Johns, 32, a convicted rapist, worked by day as a desk clerk in a retirement hotel and as a leader of a young-adults group at his church. By night, he prowled the streets of a middle-class neighborhood of two-story frame and brick houses on the edge of Hollywood. Police believe he may have raped as many as 100 women, ranging in age from 24 to 71, living in a ten-block radius. One of his victims, Sandra Trine, 37, died when she choked on her own vomit during the rape. On Aug. 11, after pleading guilty...
Groth says that most rapists have wives or girlfriends and are not sexually deprived. They rape for power. "They are insecure, inadequate people who don't feel in control of their own lives or themselves." One rapist told Groth...
...Another rapist told his therapy group in Florida that he started out as a Peeping Tom before graduating to rape. "I started feeling bad about myself and guilty about what I was doing," he said. "The only way to make me feel better was to make them feel worse...
Bill makes a practice of abusing his guests; they become victims, not visitors. To one, he says, "I don't care what the jury said, you look like a rapist to me." He calls a minister a "scuzzbag," a Congressman "a pimp in a business suit," an Italian chef "an immigrant with a Crock Pot." "Me," "my" and "I" are his favorite words. He is forever complaining to his wan, shell-shocked station manager, played by Max Wright, that guests are dull: "Get me ax murderers, a rapist, Freddie Silverman." When he wants to get rid of a possible...