Men often learn to commit rapes and
are influenced by watching violent or pornographic films
featuring women who are beaten, raped, or tortured.74
In one case, a 12-year-old boy in Providence, Rhode
Island, sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl on a pool
table after watching TV coverage of a case in which a
woman was similarly raped.75 (The case was made into
a film, The Accused, starring Jodie Foster.)
Source: C. Boyle, “Sexual Assault: A Case Study of Legal Policy
Options,” in Canadian Criminology: Perspectives on Crime and
Criminality, ed. M. Jackson and C. Griffiths (Toronto: Harcourt
Brace, 1991),
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