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17 J. Offender Rehab. 1 (1991-1992)

handle is hein.journals/wjor17 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Vol. 17 (112), 1991. Pp. 1-12. © 1991 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. 03 Focus oin: SEX OFFENSES & OFFENDERS - DYNAMICS, TREATMENT The Religious Right, Attitudes toward Women, and Tolerance for Sexual Abuse Debra B. Hull Jacqueline Burke Wheeling Jesuit College ABSTRACT College students completed the Attitudes Toward Women Scale and an adaptation of the Sexual Experiences Survey. Those who had experienced or perpetrated minimal levels of sexual abuse had significantly more positive attitudes toward women and their rights than did those who had experienced or perpetrated serious levels of sexual abuse. This relationship is discussed in terms of social and cultural conditions which lead to a greater tolerance for sexual abuse among both women and men. The role of the politically active religious right in perpetrating negative attitudes toward women, and thus, perhaps, sexual abuse, is discussed in detail. In a nationwide investigation of sexual abuse among college students, Koss (1987) found that since age 14, 15% of the women had been raped, 12% had been victims of attempted rape, 12% had been psychologically coerced into intercourse, and 14% had been forcibly kissed or touched. Eighty-four percent of the victims knew the offender, and 57% of the attacks occurred on dates. These