"Resistance and Injury in Non-Fatal Assaultive Violence,"Victimology, 8 (No. 3-4,
1984), 215-226.
This article employs National Crime Survey data on stranger assaults to examine the role of victim resistance
in warding off attack and reducing the risk of injury. The tactics which victims adopt in the fact of potential
violence may themselves by violent or nonviolent. The survey data suggest that nonviolent resistance may be
effective in warding off attack and preventing injury, but that violent resistance seems to exacerbate both of
those outcomes.
1984), 215-226.
This article employs National Crime Survey data on stranger assaults to examine the role of victim resistance
in warding off attack and reducing the risk of injury. The tactics which victims adopt in the fact of potential
violence may themselves by violent or nonviolent. The survey data suggest that nonviolent resistance may be
effective in warding off attack and preventing injury, but that violent resistance seems to exacerbate both of
those outcomes.
"Resistance and Nonfatal Outcomes in Stranger-to-Stranger Predatory Crime,"
Violence and Victims, 1 (No. 4, 1987), 241-254.
This article examines the consequences of encounters between strangers that might have resulted in
robbery or rape and explores how the eventual outcomes of those incidents were related to the resistance
offered by their potential victims. It is based on data from the National Crime Survey. Although the
conclusions necessarily are tentative, it appears that forceful resistance was related to less frequent
success by robbers, but robbery victims resisting forcefully had a greater risk of being physically attacked.
Forceful resistance in potential rape incidents was related to higher risk of attack and bodily injury with no
apparent reduction in risk of rape. On the other hand, victims who were able to offer non-forceful resistance
reported a reduced risk of being robbed and suffered less frequent attack and injury. In rape incidents,
non-forceful resistance was linked to lower risk of actual rape but was unrelated to risk of attack or other
forms of injury.
Violence and Victims, 1 (No. 4, 1987), 241-254.
This article examines the consequences of encounters between strangers that might have resulted in
robbery or rape and explores how the eventual outcomes of those incidents were related to the resistance
offered by their potential victims. It is based on data from the National Crime Survey. Although the
conclusions necessarily are tentative, it appears that forceful resistance was related to less frequent
success by robbers, but robbery victims resisting forcefully had a greater risk of being physically attacked.
Forceful resistance in potential rape incidents was related to higher risk of attack and bodily injury with no
apparent reduction in risk of rape. On the other hand, victims who were able to offer non-forceful resistance
reported a reduced risk of being robbed and suffered less frequent attack and injury. In rape incidents,
non-forceful resistance was linked to lower risk of actual rape but was unrelated to risk of attack or other
forms of injury.
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