Statutory Rape

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The class picks this vignette for our quantitative paper. It is a very touchy subject. Lots of people do not consider sex between and fifteen years old and twenty-one is statutory rape. It has only been a few empirical studies have examined factors that influence whether young adults perceive statutory relationship as a crime. Two studies specifically examining perceptions of non forced adolescent-adult sexual relationship demonstrate that greater age gaps between partners lead to more negative perceptions of the older partners (Oudekerk,2013). Young adults might consider it as love not statutory rape. The article said under the age twenty-five comprise the majority of statutory rape perpetrator, yes we know little about their perceptions of statutory relationships. They assessed 210 (50%male) young adults’ perceptions of statutory rape involving a 15-years-old female adolescent and a male who was either 2, 4, or 6 years older. Across all age gaps, 73.7% of participants felt the relationship should not be a crime. Participants who read about a 4 -or 6 (versus 2-year) age gap p...

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