Compare and contrast the Groth typology of rape and the Massachusetts Treatment Center's Classification Systems of rapists

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

• Each of these represents a systematic effort to understand the behaviors and motives of individuals who commit this crime.
• Each was developed as a result of therapeutic work with men who had raped.
• The Groth system relies on the clinical impressions of Nicholas Groth, who treated many rapists in his clinical practice during the 1960s and 1970s.
• According to Groth, rape is always a crime representing aggression and an offender's wish for power over the victim; it is never primarily sexually motivated.
• The Groth model places offenders into one of three categories, anger rape, power rape, and sadistic rape.
• These three categories continue to be repeated in the clinical literature, but the Groth system has not been continuously studied or validated. The categories have some similarities to the MTC classification, but they are much more simplistic.
• The MTC system is clinically based because its developers (Raymond Knight and his colleagues) work with rapists; however, it is heavily research-based as well, and it is continually updated. Researchers associated with the MTC publish their findings extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
• The latest version is the MTC-R4.
• The MTC classification system is a complex system that places rapists into four major types and nine subtypes based on their motivations (e.g., opportunistic, pervasively angry, sexual, and vindictive).
• The MTC system looks closely at personality traits (e.g., callous-unemotional) that are associated with the types and subtypes, and it recommends strategies for therapeutic intervention.
• Although both systems may be useful to treatment providers, the MTC classification system, though complicated and continually evolving, is also the more validated.