How is the crime of rape defined, and what are the key issues involved in explaining the crime of rape?

What will be an ideal response?


The definition of rape used by the Uniform Crime Reports for the past 80 years was the "carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will." However, this recently has been changed. The new gender-neutral definition of rape approved by the FBI reads,

"The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim."

The UCR program definition of forcible rape has been revised to read, "the carnal knowledge of a person forcibly and against their will."

The key issues to be considered in explaining rape include the changing definitions of rape, our social understanding of the crime, variations in the way theoretical explanations have evolved, and rapist typologies.

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