Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications
- 1 June 1984
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Problems
- Vol. 31 (5) , 530-544
- https://doi.org/10.2307/800239
Abstract
This paper analyzes the excuses and justifications which a sample of convicted, incarcerated rapists used to explain themselves and their crimes. ExcKeywords
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