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Show by L!oyd Shearer IOS ANGELES the most widely committed jape unreported crime in the nation. Most rapes take place from May to October, peaking in August. Saturday is the rapist's favorite day. Generally he attacks between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. According to sociologist Norman S. Goldner of Wayne State University who has researched the available material on the subject for criminologists, most rapists (82 percent) seek out women in their own neighborhoods, either on the street, the woman's residence, or the home of the attacker. Most rapes are planned, the rapist most often using such threats as verbal intimidation and the brandishing of a weapon to accomplish his purpose. is Friends and acquaintances in 48 percent of rapes, the victim and the offender knew one another previously. The closer their relationship, the more brutal the attack. According to Goldner, the most common age for a rapist is 18. Most rapists are single unskilled men with extremely low intelligence ratings. Generally they are men with little or no social contact. They lack confidence in themselves and choose rape as a way to bolster their egos. Many criminologists hold that attacks on women are perpetrated not so much by a man's erotic needs, but are motivated by his need for aggression. FBI statistics indicate that 85 of every 100,000 female residents of major U S. cities are victims of forcible rape. An estimated 75 percent of sexual attacks on women go unreported to police authorities, largely because women find it embarrassing to discuss the crime with male detectives, many of whom are unsympathetic, and because they are reluctant to become involved in the lengthy legal hassle necessary to obtain a rape conviction. As a result, rape is probably the least punished major crime in the United States. single-offend- Here is a demonstration in staged by Dr. Mary Conroy who teaches a course at a California university. Belov she reacts swiftly with a hard incapacitating kick to rapists groin followed by a crushing double-han- d chop. self-defen- se er Pervasive fear Rape and the fear of rape have become a daily part of woman's consciousness especially in the larger, more crime-ridde- n urban centers of the nation. There is probably no woman alive who has not speculated on the nature of rape and the rapist, who has not imagined herself in the position of victim, and thought of what she would do or how she would defend herself in case of attack. 4 PARADE AUGUST 2f 1971 |