Sexual Violence conference presentations
In September this year Middlesex University held a conference on sexual violence. Listed below are presentations and posters from this conference.
Keynotes
Professor Betsy Stanko
An evidence base for change?: The challenge of 'what we know' about rape for policy and practice
Papers
Session: International Issues in Sexual Violence
Monica Romero-Sánchez & Jesús L. Megias
Social Perceptions of sexual assaults in college students: A qualitative study using focus groups methodology
Session: Linking Sexual Offences and Multiple Perpetrator Rape
Teresa da Silva, Leigh Harkins & Jessica Woodhams
Heterogeneity within multiple perpetrator rapes: A national comparison of single, duo and 3+ perpetrator rapes
Mackenzie Lambine, Miranda Horvath, Jacqueline Gray & Joanna Adler
An integrated model of self-regulation and male peer support in multiple perpetrator rape offences
Jan Winter, Gina Rossi and Jessica Woodhams
The weakest link? An update on linkage analysis of serious sexual assaults
Session: Experiences of Sexual Violence
Claire Potter, Nancy Kelly, Christine Horrocks & Viv Burr
Seeking to move on after drug assisted sexual assault and rape: The narrative accounts of three women
Avigail Moor
Dehumanized, humiliated, and frozen: Key aspects of the rape experience that link it to psychological outcome
Heather Flowe & Naomi Cable
Alcohol and memory for sexual aggression: Encoding failure depends on the emotional salience of the to-be-remembered information
Session: Improving Responses to Sexual Violence
Raquel Correia
An overview of using EMDR within an acute sexual assault referral centre
Lena Stadler & Steffen Bieneck
Evaluation of formal institutions’ reactions on reporting and help-seeking behaviour following sexual violence
Session: Taking Action
Sara Valentina Di Palma
Mass rape in Bosnia and Rwanda: Violence silencing and feminist answers
Jeanne Sarson & Linda MacDonald
Sexualized Torture in the Domestic/Private Sphere and ‘Body Talk’: A Human Rights and Relational Feminist Paradigm
Session: Criminal Justice Responses to Sexual Violence
Jacqueline Gray & Jennifer Temkin
Some methodological issues in evaluating the significance of rape myths in trial outcomes
Lesley McMillan
‘Real rapes’ or ‘good cases’?: Police officers’ perceptions of reported rape cases
Session: Offenders
Geraldine Akerman
A fantasy modification programme developed to run in a democratic therapeutic community
Session: International Issues in Sexual Violence
Els Leye & Alexia Sabbe
Striking the right balance between prosecution and prevention of female genital mutilation in Europe. A review of legislation
Posters
Amy Grubb & Terri-Anne Tarn
An exploratory analysis of the relationship between women’s rape fantasies, rape myth acceptance, rape victim empathy and rape blame attribution
Charlotte Diehl, Selina Helmke, Pia Kobusch, Michael Papendick, Jonas Rees, Nina Vanselow & Gerd Bohner
Facing powerful men vs. sexy women activates different motives for sexual harassment
Kathleen Ward
“The land of rape and honey”: Racism, regionalism and sexual violence in Queen v. Edmonson, Kindrat and Brown
Sueli Williams & Afroditi Pina
The influence of rape myth acceptance upon individuals’ rape-supportive and victim blaming attributions: Exploring the utility of the IRMA-SF as a possible screening tool for potential jurors on rape cases
