Links and resources

Join the This Is Not An Invitation To Rape Me Facebook Group.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30082237828

Support and information for survivors

• Rape Crisis Scotland National Helpline – Freephone 08088 01 03 02 (voice and minicom) daily (6pm-12 midnight)
• Rape Crisis Scotland
• Scottish Government, 2008 Information and help after sexual assault
• Pandys Help for women raped by husbands or boyfriends (Aphrodite Wounded)

General – research and statistics

• Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, 2006 – Review of the Investigation and Prosecution of Sexual Offences in Scotland
• TNS System Three survey (February 2008) – TNS System Three survey of 986 Scots for the Scottish Executive
• Extract from the TNS survey relating to attitudes to rape
• Rape Crisis Scotland, December 2007 – Results of survey commissioned by Rape Crisis Scotland on public attitudes to women and rape
• Amnesty International – Amnesty International Report on attitudes to sexual assault in the UK (2005)
• Zero Tolerance – Zero Tolerance research on Young Peoples' Attitudes towards Sex, Violence and Relationships (1998)
• Scottish Parliament Bill – Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill
• Open Scotland – Recorded Crime in Scotland 2006-07
• Scottish Government – Criminal proceedings in Scottish Courts 2006-07
• Scottish Government – Impact of Aspects of the Law of Evidence in Sexual Offence Trials: An Evaluation Study
• The Independent – Myths and outdated attitudes
• The Scotsman – Conviction rates in the Scottish courts
• Home Office Research Study 276 – Domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking: Findings from the British Crime Survey, 2004 Walby, Sylvia, and Allen, Jonathan

Dress

• An examination of date rape, victim dress and perceiver variables within the context of attribution theory. Workman, Jane E. and Freeburg, Elizabeth W. Sex Roles, Vol. 41, No. 3/4, 1999
• Cassidy, Linda – The influence of victim’s attire on adolescents’ judgements of date rape (1995)
• The Telegraph – Italy overturns tight jeans rape ruling
• The Independent – Tight jeans ruling reversed
• The Guardian – Forsake lipstick to avoid rape

Drink

• The effect of victim’s substance use and relationship closeness on mock jurors’ judgements in an acquaintance rape case. Wenger, Ashley A. and Bornstein, Brian H. Sex Roles [2006] 54: 547-555
• ESRC Society Today – From Sobriety to Stupefaction: Intoxication & Jury Decision-Making in Rape Trials Finch, E. & V.E. Munro
• Innovations Report – Juries reluctant to convict in rape cases in which alcohol involved
• Business Times Online – Juries are 'unsympathetic' to women who claim rape after drunken binge
• The Calgary herald – Rape victims who were drunk perceived as more responsible: study
• The Guardian – Rape victims told alcohol consumption may cost them compensation
• The Guardian – Blaming the victim
• The Scotland on Sunday – Adding insult to injury

Intimacy and Relationships

• Rape in Marriage – Russell, Diana E.H. MacMillan Publishing Company, USA 1990
• Real Rape, Real Pain – Easteal, Patricia & McOrmond-Plummer, Louise Hybrid Publishers, 2006
• License to Rape – Finkelhor, D. and Yllo, K. The Free Press, New York 1985
• The Rapist Who Pays The Rent – Hall, Ruth, Falling Wall Press Ltd., 1984
• Wife Rape: Understanding the Response of Survivors and Service Providers – Bergen, R, Sage Publications, California, 1996
• Marital rape: Is the crime taken seriously without co-occurring physical abuse? Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer and Monson, Candice M. Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 13, No. 4, 1998
• The effect of participant sex, victim dress, and traditional attitudes on causal judgements for marital rape victims. Whatley, Mark A. Journal of Family Violence, Vol. 20, No. 3, 2005
• The lore of sexual difference in social and legal discourse on ‘date rape’. Bryan, Ian and Wallbank, Julie. Law and Critique 15: 183-206, 2004
• Women’s Health Australia. Raped by a partner: A research report. Women’s Health Goulburn North East, 2008
• US Department of Justice, 2000. Extent, nature and consequences of intimate partner violence
• Wall, Liz. The many facets of shame in intimate partner sexual violence (2012).
• World Health Organisation 2010. Preventing intimate partner and sexual violence against women: taking action and generating evidence.
• STAR library. Marital rape
• New Statesman. Raped by person known
• Library Index. Rape and sexual harassment around the world – marital rape
• The Age, Australia. Study finds rape in marriage horror
• The Telegraph. Acquaintance rapists to receive lighter sentences
• The Telegraph. Acquaintance rapists treated more leniently