Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape

Miranda A.H. Horvath Ph.D. is the David Jenkins Chair in Forensic and Legal Medicine (2012-2013) and a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at Middlesex University, where she is also Deputy Director of Forensic Psychological Services. Miranda’s research focuses on sexual violence and violence against women. She has worked on many aspects of these topics both as a researcher and evaluator. She has published over 35 journal articles, chapters and reports and was co-editor of the collection Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking (Willan, 2009). Miranda is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Sexual Aggression and member of the Editorial Board of Women’s Studies International Forum.Jessica Woodhams Ph.D. is a Forensic Psychologist and a Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She has been researching sexual offending (including multiple perpetrator rape) for the last ten years. She has written more than 20 journal articles and book chapters on sexual offending and she has been awarded several research grants on the topic. Her research on multiple perpetrator rape has included the use of violence and aggression by offenders, leadership and victims’ behaviours. In 2010, she received an award from the European Association for Psychology and Law for her early career achievement.

• Foreword 1. Introduction 2. Multiple Perpetrator Rape as an international phenomenon 3. Masculinity, status and power: Implicit messages in Western media discourse on high-profile multiple perpetrator rape cases 4. Variations in Multiple Perpetrator Rape characteristics relative to group size: Comparing duo and larger group MPR offences 5. Group sexual offending: Comparing adolescent female with adolescent male offenders 6. Busting the ‘Gang-Rape’ myth: Girls’ victimisation and agency in gang-associated rape and peer-on-peer exploitation 7. Streamlining: understanding gang rape in South Africa 8. Multiple Perpetrator Rape during war 9. Leadership and role-taking in Multiple Perpetrator Rape 10. Aggression and violence in Multiple Perpetrator Rape 11. Multiple Perpetrator Rape victimization: How it differs and why it matters 12. Multiple Perpetrator Rape in the courtroom 13. Issues concerning treatment of adolescent Multiple Perpetrator Rape offenders 14. Girls and gangs: Preventing Multiple Perpetrator Rape 15. Conclusion.

Miranda Horvath and Jessica Woodhams have assembled an impressive array of material making innovative and prescient contributions when thinking about and tackling the emergent problem of multiple perpetrator rape.Professor Jennifer Brown, London School of Economics and Social Sciences, UK.A brilliant collection of academic and practitioner views on a newly emerging, and highly interesting, research agenda. A very welcomed addition to a specialised area of sexual violence perpetration.Dr. Afroditi Pina, Lecturer in Forensic Psychology, University of Kent, UK.