Alcohol and rape in Winnipeg, 1966-1975.

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The role of alcohol in 217 rapes reported to the Winnipeg City [Canada] Police Department during the 10 yr period 1966-1975 was examined. Alcohol was present in 72.4% of the rapes, both parties had been drinking in 38.7% of all cases, the rapist only in 24.4% and the victim in 9.2%. Alcohol increased the likelihood of force being used, the relationship being weakest when alcohol had been used by the victim alone (.gamma. = .18) and strongest when both rapist and victim had been drinking (.gamma. = .35). Of the 191 cases in which data on injury were available, 113 resulted in injury to the victim, the likelihood of injury to the victim being greatest if she alone had been drinking (.gamma. = -.06) and intermediate if both parties had been drinking (.gamma. = .26). While drinking rapists were involved in 63.1% of all the 217 cases, they committed only 59.5% of the 74 rapes involving especially vulnerable victims (mentally or physically handicapped, very young or very old, working late, living alone, unclothed or sleeping at the time of the rape, intoxicated). They were more likely than nondrinking offenders to rape handicapped or intoxicated women. The situation of drinking may facilitate rape; 83% of the rapes classified as spontaneous involved alcohol while 55% of those characterized as planned were preceded by drinking. Some of the findings are compared with similar data ta on rape on rapes reported in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania, USA] and Toronto [Ontario, Canada].

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