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Article: Sexual coercion among university students: a comparison of the United States and Sweden.
- Article from:
- The Journal of Sex Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
- Author:
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Since the 1980s, social scientists have used the term sexual coercion to refer to an interaction in which someone is pressured or forced to engage in a sexual act against her or his will. Numerous researchers have documented the widespread prevalence of sexual coercion and its many harmful effects and consequences in the United States. [See Craig (1990) and Koss et al. (1994) for summaries of prevalence studies.] Despite the emergence of sociocultural theories of sexual coercion, few researchers have examined crossnational comparisons of this phenomenon. Our purpose with the current research was to examine factors associated with, and differences in, the prevalence of ...