Misplaced Pages

Latest revision as of 00:22, 21 December 2024

In scholarly literature and criminology, gang rape, also called serial gang rape, party rape, group rape, or multiple perpetrator rape, is the rape of a single victim by two or more violators. Gang rapes are forged on shared identity, religion, ethnic group, or race. There are multiple motives for serial gang rapes, such as for sexual entitlement, asserting sexual prowess, war, punishment, and, in up to 30% of cases, for targeting racial minorities, religious minorities, or ethnic groups.

Gang rapes can be part of genocidal rape or ethnic cleansing campaigns.

Gang rape in literature

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2020)

Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible documents two narratives of gang rapes: the infamous account of Sodom and the story of the Levite Concubine in Gibeah (presented as a doublet with mimicking literary structure to the former). Both instances result in the judgement of God through destruction and war respectively.

Perpetrator characteristics

Gang rapes are typically perpetrated by two or more men, and tend to have somewhat different characteristics than rapes by individuals. For instance, gang rapists tend to be younger and are more often repeat offenders, and the gang is more likely to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Gang rapes are more violent on average compared to its individual counterpart, with significantly more severe sexual and non-sexual injuries to the victim. The gang members also typically dehumanize the victim more before and during the rape. Gang rapes are almost always premeditated in their intent, target victim(s), social proof, and psychological causes. Social factors such as civil wars, hate propaganda, and ethnic conflicts increase the rate of gang rape.

Rape gang members often have a binding force such as the same race, or place of residence thereby forming a close-knit peer pressure group, encouraged by the behavior of their fellow criminals. Gang rape can result from a group form of criminal spin, in which the group starts with less serious offenses which ultimately lead them to go well beyond their initial intention.

In a 2013 study based on 25-year crime data from US and Europe, between 10% and 20% of all rapes were gang rapes. Less than one in three gang rapes are reported, while less than 1 in 20 attempted but failed gang rapes are reported.

Motives

Sexual entitlement and entertainment

A 2013 Lancet report found that among the motives for rape were sexual entitlement and seeking of entertainment. Associated factors in the crime included alcohol misuse, poverty, personal history of childhood victimization, need to prove heterosexual performance, dominance over women, and participation in gangs and related activities. As of September 2013, according to the report, most cases were not reported to law enforcement, and just 23% of single or multiple perpetrator rapes that were reported by the victims ended in prison sentence. The 1886 Mount Rennie rape case in Sydney, Australia falls in this category.

As an act of war

Gang rapes during civil wars and ethnic riots take added dimension of becoming a means of revenge, sending a message to the victims' community, inducing fear in the opponent, and creating a sense of solidarity among the soldiers or militants or the violent group. At least 20,000 women were raped or gang raped and afterwards killed during the Nanjing Massacre, also known as the Rape of Nanjing, during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Major ethnic conflicts and wars within the last 50 years have witnessed a campaign of gang rapes. Rapes by Soviet soldiers and the Mahmudiyah rape and killings by American soldiers are examples of such war crimes.

The Congo war saw thousands of gang rapes every week, with each relief center reporting 10 or more daily victims of gang rape with battering of women. The Rwandan genocide of 1994 witnessed numerous gang rapes by soldiers. The Bosnian war during the 1990s saw a similar campaign of gang rapes. In the 1990s, the Kashmir region which was a battlefield between Jihadists and the Indian armed forces also saw a number of gang rapes which were perpetrated by both sides of the conflict to instill fear in the population of each side.

In the 2000s, civil war-torn countries such as Sudan, Afghanistan and Syria reported high rates of gang rapes by government soldiers, security forces, insurgents, and militias. Similar incidents have been recorded in Libya, and Mali.

During the recent Russian-Ukrainian war, especially after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, numerous cases of gang rapes of Ukrainian women and men, including children, by Russian soldiers were recorded.

There were several cases of rape and sexual assault on the October 7th attack by Hamas soldiers. In the aftermath in which Israel began arresting Palestinian civilians and bombing the Gaza Strip, dozens of alleged cases of sexual assault and rape by IDF soldiers against Palestinian detainees of all ages—both male and female—were recounted by prisoners.

As punishment

A 2013 Lancet report on rape and gang rape in Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Sri Lanka found that the crime was committed for various motives, including as a means to inflict punishment on the victim.

Traditionally, the Cheyenne people of North America used gang rape as punishment for female transgressions. A similar practice existed among the Munduruku people of South America.

In the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, there are instances of gang rape as punishment. In Argentina and Pakistan, gang rape has been reported to have been ordered as punishment.

Religious or racial factors

Though having the same race or religion often acts as a binding force for creating a close-knit serial rape gangs, studies reported that 30% of these shared-identity rape gangs specifically targeted people of another religion or race.

Gang rape by country

This is an incomplete list of countries, where government or media have acknowledged the problem of gang rape.

A study found that gang rapes involved more alcohol and drug use, night attacks and severe sexual assault outcomes and less victim resistance and fewer weapons than individual rapes. Another study found that group sexual assaults were more violent and had greater resistance from the victim than individual sexual assaults and that victims of group sexual assaults were more likely to seek crisis and police services, to contemplate suicide and seek psychotherapy than those involved in individual assaults. The two groups were about the same in the amount of drug use and drinking during the assault.

Porter and Alison have analyzed 739 gang rape cases from US and UK, and found over 20% of the gang rape victims died from injuries from the gang rape. Gang rape is sometimes stereotyped in media as a crime of poor, minorities, or culture; however, gang rape incidence rates are high in wealthy college campuses, among non-minorities and every culture.

Bangladesh

A 2013 Lancet study reports 1.9% of all rural men in Bangladesh have committed multiple perpetrator rape (gang rape) of a woman who was not a partner, compared to 1.4% urban men. 35% of those who have committed gang rapes against women have also committed additional rapes where the victim was a man. The motives of rape included a combination of reasons. Two thirds of the gang rape perpetrators claimed entertainment as their motive, 30% claimed they participated in gang rape out of anger and to inflict punishment on the victim, while 11% indicated the crime followed alcohol consumption.

Brazil

This section's factual accuracy may be compromised due to out-of-date information. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2015)

In the state of Rio de Janeiro alone, over 6,000 rapes are reported every year (or about 37 per 100,000 people). Nationwide, the rape rate varied between 26 and 32 per 100,000 women in 2009. The arrest rates on rape complaints, was 4% in Rio. About 19.6% of 2011 rapes were gang rapes. In 2016, more than 30 men drugged and gang raped a 16-year-old girl and later posted photos and a video to boast about it online.

Canada

Peer pressure and sexual aggression are among the cited reasons for the crime. Since 1983, Canada does not track rape or gang rape statistics separately, but tracks and reports Sexual Assault Tier 3 which includes both rape and gang rape. The average Sexual Assault Tier 3 victim rate in Canada was 15 per 100,000 women, according to a 2013 Statistics Canada article about violence against women.

China

A Lancet study reports, in an online survey of 980 Chinese men, 2.2% of them admitted to having committed gang rape (multiple perpetrator rape) of a non-partner woman. About 36% of the perpetrators had raped more than one woman, 50% of those who had committed gang rape had raped both one partner as a single perpetrator as well as a non-partner during a gang rape, while 32% had gang raped a woman and raped a man. The study also found that 90% of the rapists were in the 15–29 age group at the time they perpetrated the first rape.

In July 2013, Li Tianyi, the son of Chinese general Li Shuangjiang, was charged with four other men to being part of a gang rape. This case raised significant public anger over seemingly privileged treatment of elite gang rape criminals.

Egypt

Over two dozen gang rapes were reported during civil protests in Egypt from January to March 2013; however, activists claim that many more gang rapes often go unreported because most women are too ashamed to go to the police or even tell their relatives.

During July 2013 at Tahrir Square, mobs assaulted and gang raped at least 46 women in 4 days. A Dutch journalist was also gang-raped in Tahrir Square. A similar gang rape and gang beating was reported by an American journalist in 2011. In a separate survey, over 90% of Egyptian women claimed to have experienced sexual violence in their lifetime.

France

Between 5000 and 7000 gang rapes are reported in France every year.

In banlieues organised gang-rapes are referred to as tournantes, or "pass-arounds". One of the first people to bring public attention to the culture of gang rape was Samira Bellil, who published a book called Dans l'enfer des tournantes ("In Gang Rape Hell").

In October 2012, two girls in Fontenay-sous-Bois on the outskirts of Paris reported experiencing daily gang rapes in the high-rise tower blocks, sometimes by scores of boys. One witness described 50 boys "queuing" to rape her. 10 of the 14 defendants who were minors at the time of gang rape were acquitted, while the remaining 4 adults found guilty were given 0 to 12 months in prison. This case shocked the country. In 2014, the case of a Canadian tourist allegedly gang raped by four police officers in Paris received international attention.

In 2024, during the Summer Olympics, an Australian woman was raped on a Paris street by five men. The 25-year-old woman with a partially torn dress took refuge in a kebab shop in the Pigalle district after the incident.

Germany

India

As with other countries, India does not collect separate data on gang rapes. Rapes are also suggested to be underreported.

The gang rape of a 23-year-old student on a public bus, on 16 December 2012 has focused international attention on India's legal system, especially laws pertaining to the protection of women. It sparked large protests across the capital of India, Delhi. Several other case of child gang rapes have been also reported, such as the Kathua rape case. The large scale protests resulted in amendments in rape laws in India by way of Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 and formation of "The Nirbhaya Fund", designed to be used for schemes by different states to ensure women's safety and security at public places, a one-stop centre for their grievances, a helpline and other measures. There have been reports of gang rape of tourists in India like the Jharkhand tourist rape case.

Gang rapes are a long-time phenomenon in India as historically, during the instability of the heavily political and wartime era of the |Mughal Empire]] in the 16th century, the soldiers of the large Mughal armies engaged in wartime sexual violence against women during their campaigns in all corners of India. Upon the spotting of a beautiful woman, up to five or six soldiers would violate her. Women threw themselves to suicide to avoid such a fate and those who resisted had their breasts cut off.

Indonesia

Reported cases of gang rape include Jakarta International School gang rape of a six-year-old, gang rape of a Malaysian student in Indonesia, and the Aceh gang rape case where the victim was charged with adultery when she reported the crime.

A Lancet study of Jakarta and Jayapura city on New Guinea island, found gang rape prevalence rate to be 2% and 6.8% of all Indonesian men respectively who, at some point in their lifetime, have committed multiple perpetrator rape. About 52% of the perpetrators had raped more than one woman, 64% of those who had committed gang rape had raped both partner as single perpetrator as well as non-partner during a gang rape, while 12% had gang raped a woman and raped a man. The study also found that 90% of the rapists in Indonesia were in the 15–29 age group when they committed their first rape.

Iran

Many incidents of gang rapes have been reported in Iran. In several cases, the police officials have blamed the victim for not wearing hijab, and in one case arresting the victim and two activists, who were trying to bring attention to the gang rape.

While official statistics on reported and pending gang rapes in Iran are not published by the Iranian government, public hangings for gang rapes are routinely reported in Iranian newspapers.

Malaysia

A 15-year-old schoolgirl in Ketereh, Kelantan, was gang raped by more than 30 men. Malaysia reported about 3,000 rape cases in 2012, a rape incidence rate of about 10.7 rapes per 100,000 people. About 52% of these victims were less than 16 years old. Like other nations, Malaysia does not segregate rape and gang rape cases.

Nigeria

Nigeria reports thousands of gang rapes every year. In 2011, the ABSU gang rape, in which the gang videotaped their crime, drew widespread attention and protests inside Nigeria. The prevalence of group rape has been proposed as a significant contributor to spread of sexual diseases and AIDS.

Pakistan

The 2013 National Crime Data report for Pakistan suggest a current rape rate of 8.4 women per 100,000 population, of which about 10% were gang rapes.

In some cases, such as Mukhtar Mai gang rape in Muzaffargarh, village elder's council (jirga) in Pakistan have ordered that the girl in a family is gang-raped as a means of punishing her brother, and this punishment was then carried out in public with everyone watching. In 2011, Pakistan's Supreme Court freed 5 men who committed the gang-rape because their action was on orders of the village council. Other gang rape cases reported in 2013 include Bahawalpur gang rape, Lahore gang rape, Peshawar gang rape, Karachi gang rape of a girl with polio, among others.

In 2018, a trans woman from Peshawar was kidnapped and raped by eleven men, who filmed the assault and shared it on social media.

Papua New Guinea

A Lancet study reports 14.1% of all men admitted to having committed gang rape (multiple perpetrator rape) of a non-partner woman sometime in their lifetime. 44% of these perpetrators had raped more than 1 woman over their lifetime. In Papua New Guinea, 25% of the first rape was committed at a juvenile age less than 15, while in 70% of the cases the perpetrator's age was 15–29 at the time of first crime.

Saudi Arabia

The Qatif rape case was a 2006 gang rape of a teenage girl by seven men. The case attracted international attention because the victim was initially ordered to receive 200 lashes but the ruling was overturned by the monarch after backlash.

South Africa

Gang rapes occur frequently in South Africa, and in certain parts it is called jackrolling. South Africa reported over 64,000 rapes in 2012, or about 127.5 women per 100,000 population. With one woman raped every 4 minutes, South Africa has world's highest rape incidence rate per 100,000 women. Between 10% and 33% of all rapes are gang rapes involving three or more people. About 25% of youth near Johannesburg described gang rape as recreational and fun.

In certain parts of South Africa where boys are often involved in gang rapes, rape rates are higher. 40% of reported rape cases are on children below the age of 12.

Vogelman and Lewis report 44% of rapists in South Africa have engaged in gang rape. The National Institute of Crime Rehabilitation of South Africa claims only 1 out of 20 rapes are reported in South Africa, suggesting 1,300 women are raped every day. A 2010 nationwide survey reported that about 27% of all South African men above the age of 18 have raped a woman in their lifetime one or more times, while 8.9% of all adult men have participated in a gang rape. The gang rape prevalence rate varied significantly in different provinces of South Africa; for example, in Eastern Cape, 13.9% of men had gang raped a woman who was not a partner.

In February 2013, a 17-year-old girl was gang raped, mutilated and left to die in a town near Cape Town. This led to widespread protests.

Spain

Reported gang rape cases include gang rape of a British tourist in Spain where one of the rapists (described by the victim as Arabic) was a 70-year-old man, and gang rape in Huelva of a 13-year-old girl with a mental disability. The La Manada rape case in 2016 led to significant public outcry.

Sweden

In 2013, Forskning & Framsteg (FoF), a Swedish popular science magazine, published an article reporting that "The evidence suggests that gang rapes in Sweden is increasing - despite the decline in violent crime in general." FoF went on to report that, "The increase, which primarily occurred in the 2000s, may have to do with "rape with multiple perpetrators" from 2004, classified as "serious crime", which means that more obscure cases fall into this category." FoF further reports that "National Council's investigator, Klara Hradilova-Selin, said that "developments could at least partly be interpreted in terms of an actual increase." Although there are a number of other important reasons why we are seeing more reports, such as, Klara Hradilova-Selin goes on to say, "more women dare to go the police" and an "increased alcohol consumption". Finally FoF goes on to report that in the 1990s "In the gang rape of three or more perpetrators 39 percent are foreign born." The statistics for gang rapes were not investigated by Swedish authorities after 2006.

On 21 January 2017, in Uppsala, Sweden, a group of Arab Facebook users allegedly gang-raped an unconscious woman for several hours. The crime was stopped when viewers of the Facebook live feed realized what was happening and phoned the police, who entered the apartment and interrupted the crime still in progress.

In March 2018, newspaper Expressen investigated gang rape court cases from the two preceding years and found that there were 43 men having been convicted. Their average age was 21 and 13 were under the age of 18 when the crime was committed. Of the convicted, 40 out of the 43 were either immigrants (born abroad) or born in Sweden to immigrant parents. Another investigation by newspaper Aftonbladet found that of 112 men and boys convicted for gang rape since July 2012, 82 were born outside Europe. The median age of the victims was 15, while 7 out of 10 perpetrators were between 15 and 20.

United Arab Emirates

In several cases in 2013, the courts of the UAE have sentenced the gang raped woman to prison under its laws. For example, a British woman, after she reported being gang raped by three men, was charged with the crime of drinking alcohol in UAE; an Arab woman was sentenced to one year in prison for illicit sex after she complained of gang rape; an Australian woman was similarly sentenced to jail after she reported gang rape in the UAE, while a Norwegian woman was jailed for illicit sex when she reported rape by Arab men. In another case, an 18-year Arab woman withdrew her complaint of gang rape inside a car by six men when the prosecution threatened her with a long jail term for consensual sex with multiple men.

According to ABC News, a French teenage boy was gang raped by three Dubai men. The authorities demanded that the tourist confess he is gay and that he asked for sex. The boy insisted he was raped and diplomatic pressure led to the arrest and conviction of the gang members.

United Kingdom

A number of gang rapes have taken place in the United Kingdom, although the UK authorities had not separately collected data on gang rapes until the 2011 Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre report on localised grooming entitled "Out of Mind, Out of Sight", but which only deals with adolescent victims. However, Scotland Yard expressed concern in 2009 over the rise of 'gang sex attacks' in London, detailing an increase of 71 cases in 2003/2004 to 93 cases in 2008/2009.

Media reports of gang rapes in the UK are often racially charged since late 2000. This due to a particular pattern of repeated non-white perpetrated gang rapes in the metropolitan areas. The Rochdale sex trafficking gang would later epitomise the phenomenon. The Home Office report of 2013 described these cases as ' a particular model... of organised, serious exploitation and abuse that involves predominantly Pakistani-heritage men grooming and abusing predominantly white British girls.' The report stresses that the Government does not believe 'localised grooming' is intrinsic of any culture, religion, and or race, despite acknowledging the phenomenon.

In March 2014, Crime Prevention Minister Norman Baker described "ground breaking work" to identify women and girls who can get drawn into gangs. "Girls associated with gangs can face sexual violence and we have provided £1.2m for 13 Young People's Advocates to support those at risk," he said on the launch of a report by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a think-tank established in 2002 by Iain Duncan Smith, another Cabinet minister. Baker said the government had set up a network of more than 70 people with experience of dealing with gangs to work with 33 of the worst affected areas of the country, including 20 in London. In one case cited by the CSJ report, a schoolgirl was abducted and sexually assaulted by nine males because she criticised a gang member. The report found that girls as young as eight were being used to carry drugs while female gang members in their teens were being pressured to have sex with boys as young as 10 to initiate males into gangs. A 2014 report by the Office of the Children's Commissioner suggested that almost 2,500 children had been known to be victims of child sexual exploitation by gangs and groups.

In July 2018 Home Secretary Sajid Javid ordered research into the particular characteristics of grooming gangs. However, as of March 2020 this report has not been released with the Home Office claiming it is ‘not in public interest’ to release the findings.

United States

The US reports about 85,000 rapes a year, or an average of 27.3 rapes per 100,000 population. There is a rape in the US every 6.2 minutes. As with other countries, the US does not collect separate data on gang rapes; Vogelman and Lewis estimate 25% of all rapes in the US are gang rapes. Another source indicates 21.8% of American rapes are gang rapes. A Roger Williams University study estimates from survey of crime data that 16% of all male rapists in the US participated in a gang rape crime.

A 15-year-old girl in Chicago was gang raped on Facebook live in 2017 while watched by over 40 people. On a separate occasion, two teenage girls, one aged 15, the other aged 16, in La Crosse, Wisconsin, were gang raped by at least 11 men.

Some examples of gang rapes reported in local media in 2013 include the Cleveland, Texas gang rape, Richmond gang rape, Vanderbilt University gang rape, New Orleans gang rape, St Paul gang rape, Miami gang rape/murder, among others.

See also

• Fiction about gang rape
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Types of rape

References

1. ^ Ullman, S. E. (2013). 11 Multiple perpetrator rape victimization. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape: A Multidisciplinary Response to an International Problem, Miranda A.H Horvath, Jessica Woodhams (Editors), 4, Chapter 11; ISBN 978-0415500449
2. Neumann, Stephani. Gang Rape: Examining Peer Support and Alcohol in Fraternities. Sex Crimes and Paraphilia. Hickey, Eric W., 397-407
3. ^ Ullman, Sarah (1999). A comparison of gang and individual rape incidents. Violence and victims, 14(2), pp. 123–133
4. ^ Porter, L. E., & Alison, L. J. (2001). A Partially Ordered Scale of Influence in Violent Group Behavior An Example From Gang Rape. Small Group Research, 32(4), pp. 475–497
5. ^ Berkowitz A (1992). "College men as perpetrators of acquaintance rape and sexual assault: A review of recent research". Journal of American College Health. 40 (4): 175–181. doi:10.1080/07448481.1992.9936279. PMID 1583239.
6. ^ Jewkes, Rachel; et al. (2013). "Prevalence of and factors associated with non-partner rape perpetration: findings from the UN Multi-country Cross-sectional Study on Men and Violence in Asia and the Pacific". The Lancet Global Health. 1 (4): 208–218. doi:10.1016/S2214-109X(13)70069-X. PMID 25104346.
7. ^ Olujic, Maria B. (1995). "Women, rape, and war: The continued trauma of refugees and displaced persons in Croatia". Anthropology of East Europe Review. 13 (1). University of Zagreb: 62–67. Archived from the original on 2014-03-10.
8. ^ Gettleman, Jeffrey (2007-10-07). "Rape Epidemic Raises Trauma of Congo War". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-10-03. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
9. ^ Stiglmayer, A. (Ed.). (1994). Mass rape: The war against women in Bosnia-Herzegovina, University of Nebraska Press
10. ^ Farr, Kathryn. "Extreme war rape in today’s civil-war-torn states: A contextual and comparative analysis." Gender Issues 26.1 (2009): pp. 1–41
11. ^ Worell, Judith (2001). Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: Sex Similarities and Differences and the Impact of Society on Gender. Academic Press. p. 299. ISBN 9780122272455.
12. ^ Kellogg, Susan (2005). Weaving the Past: A History of Latin America's Indigenous Women from the Prehispanic Period to the Present. Oxford University Press. p. 150. ISBN 9780198040422.
13. ^ Mynhardt (2009). South African Supplement to Social Psychology 3e. Pearson South Africa. p. 7. ISBN 9781770255241.
14. ^ Allison, Julie A.; Wrightsman, Lawrence S. (1993-06-21). Rape: The Misunderstood Crime. SAGE. ISBN 9780803937079. OCLC 1083053697.
15. Ullman, S. E. (1999). "A comparison of gang and individual rape incidents". Violence and Victims. 14 (2): 123–133. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.14.2.123. ISSN 0886-6708. PMID 10418766. S2CID 29069025.
16. Smith, Merril (Ed.). (2004). Encyclopedia of rape. Greenwood Publishing Group.
17. Ellis, Lee (Ed.). (1989). Theories of Rape: Recent Inquiries Into the Causes of Sexual Aggression. Taylor & Francis.
18. Thompson, Allan (Ed.) (2007), The media and the Rwanda genocide. IDRC, ISBN 978-9970-02-595-4
19. Barnes, A. (Ed.). (2005). The handbook of women, psychology, and the law. John Wiley & Sons
20. Miller, Jody, & Glassner, Barry (1997). The ‘inside’and the ‘outside’: finding realities in interviews. Qualitative research, pp. 99–112, chapter 8
21. Card, Claudia, Rape as a Weapon of War, Hypatia 11.4 (1996), pp. 5–18
22. "Congo's shame: Rape used as tool of war". Washington Times. 2009-09-08. Archived from the original on 2013-11-10. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
23. Morris, M. (1996). By force of arms: Rape, war, and military culture. Duke Law Journal, 45, pp. 651–699
24. R., Viswesh (2016-06-19). "Book Review: Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora?". Feminism in India. Retrieved 2023-05-18.
25. Asfour Hasibah (2013). "Concepts of Social Justice and Islamic Perspective". American Journal of Law and Public Policy. 3 (1): 29–34.
26. "Syrian women who fled to Jordan tell of horrific rapes back home". Toronto Star. 2013-04-06. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
27. "The Syrian Refugee Crisis". The New York Times. 20 January 2013. Archived from the original on 24 February 2017. Retrieved 21 February 2017.
28. AFP (29 March 2013). "British pro-Palestinian activists raped in Libya: Deputy PM – The Express Tribune". Tribune.com.pk. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
29. Corinne Dufka; senior Africa researcher (2012-04-30). "Mali: War Crimes by Northern Rebels | Human Rights Watch". Hrw.org. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
30. Ukraine: Rape and torture by Russian forces continuing, rights experts report
31. Russian troops gang-rape 12-year-old girl in eastern Ukraine - intercept
32. Sexual violence by Russian forces is genocide against Ukrainian people
33. Reuters: Russian soldiers sexually abused 4-year-old child, raped her mother in Kyiv Oblast
34. UN Commission publishes report on rape and torture in Russian-occupied territories
35. "Israel's actions in Gaza 'intentional attack on civilians': UN inquiry". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
36. "'Raped by female soldiers': Palestinian in leaked Sde Teiman photo speaks out". Middle East Eye. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
37. Ebrahim, Nadeen (2024-08-25). "'They told me to strip.' Former Palestinian detainee says he was sexually abused in an Israeli prison". CNN. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
38. "Palestinian detainees allege torture and sexual abuse by Israeli captors". Channel 4 News. 2024-08-19. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
39. The Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law, Volume 8. Georgetown University Law Center. 2007. p. 103.
40. Ullman, S. E. (1999). "A Comparison of Gang and Individual Rape Incidents". Violence and Victims. 14 (2): 123–133. doi:10.1891/0886-6708.14.2.123. PMID 10418766. S2CID 29069025.
41. Gidycz, C. A.; Koss, M. P. (1990). "A Comparison Of Group And Individual Sexual Assault Victims". Psychology of Women Quarterly. 14 (3): 325–342. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.1015.2268. doi:10.1111/j.1471-6402.1990.tb00023.x. S2CID 144937986.
42. Porter L. E., Alison L. J. (2006). "Examining group rape: A descriptive analysis of offender and victim behaviour". European Journal of Criminology. 3 (3): 357–381. doi:10.1177/1477370806065586. S2CID 144273508.
43. Sanday, P. (2007). Fraternity gang rape: Sex, brotherhood, and privilege on campus. New York University Press, ISBN 978-0-8147-4038-5
44. ^ Rape in Brazil still an invisible crime, Fabiola Ortiz, Inter Press Service (June 24 2013) Archived 2019-04-04 at the Wayback Machine; Quote "The civil police reported that in the first four months of 2013 there were 1,822 rapes committed in the state, while only 70 persons were arrested for these crimes."
45. Joseph Murray, Crime and violence in Brazil: Systematic review of time trends, prevalence rates and risk factors, Aggressive Violent Behavior, Sep 2013; 18(5): 471–483
46. Pablo Lira, Índice de violência criminalizada (IVC), II Congresso Consad de Gestão Pública, Gestão em segurança pública, Government of Brasil (2013); pp. 17–23
47. "Report of a Gang-Rape in Rio de Janeiro Shocks Brazil – Latin America News Dispatch". latindispatch.com. 2016-05-27. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
48. Bearak, Max (2021-12-01). "Dozens of men took part in the gang rape of a Brazilian teen. Then the video surfaced online". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-05-20.
49. De Keseredy & Kelly (1995), Sexual abuse in Canadian university and college dating relationships: The contribution of male peer support, Journal of Family Violence, 10(1), 41–53
50. Horvath & Kelly (2009), Multiple perpetrator rape: Naming an offence and initial research findings, Journal of Sexual Aggression, 15(1), 83-96
51. Maire Sinha, Measuring violence against women: Statistical trends Archived 2013-10-03 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada, Govt of Canada (February 2013)
52. "China general's son charged over gang rape - FRANCE 24". 6 September 2013. Archived from the original on 6 September 2013.
53. Marroushi, Nadine. "Raped Egypt Women Wish Death Over Life as Crimes Ignored". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 2015-01-25. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
54. Tadros, Mariz (2013-03-11). "Politically motivated sexual assault: the Egypt story none want to hear". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
55. "In the Last 4 Days, 91 Women Have Been Sexually Assaulted in Tahrir Square. Can Anything Be Done? - Sarah Goodyear". The Atlantic Cities. 2011-09-20. Archived from the original on 2014-01-22. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
56. Megan Levy (2012-04-13). "Dutch Journalist Raped In Tahrir Square". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 2013-11-18. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
57. "Sexual Assaults Reportedly Rampant During Egypt Protests". NPR. 2013-07-07. Archived from the original on 2018-12-01. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
58. Burleigh, Nina. "Opinion: Gang rapes, the dark side of Egypt's protests". CNN. Archived from the original on 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
59. "Tournantes: le calvaire de Nina et Stéphanie". 18 September 2012. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
60. ^ Ireland, Susan (Winter 2007). "Textualizing Trauma in Samira Bellil's Dans l'enfer des tournantes and Fabrice Génestal's La squale". Dalhousie French Studies. 81: 131–141. JSTOR 40837893.
61. ^ Hron, Madelaine (2010). Translating Pain: Immigrant Suffering in Literature and Culture. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-9324-1. Archived from the original on 2016-02-12. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
62. ^ Chrisafis, Angelique (9 October 2012). "Gang-rape trial shocks France and sparks row over justice system". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 22 September 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
63. Sayare, Scott (11 October 2012). "In France, Light Gang Rape Penalties Prompt Outcry". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2018-09-25. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
64. "Paris police jailed for Canada tourist rape". 2019-01-31. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
65. Willsher, Kim (2019-01-18). "France in shock at gang-rape trial of police from famous BRI unit". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2019-03-08. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
66. Mackintosh, Thomas. "Paris police investigating gang rape of Australian woman". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
67. Rimmer, Michelle (2024-07-23). "Athletes warned not to wear uniform after alleged gang rape of Australian woman in Paris". ABC News. Retrieved 2024-07-31.
68. Shanmugam Ramalingam (2013). "Informatics about fear to report rapes using bumped-up Poisson model". American Journal of Biostatistics. 3 (1): 17–29. doi:10.3844/amjbsp.2013.17.29.
69. Babu, Bontha V; Kar, Shantanu K (2009). "Domestic violence against women in eastern India: a population-based study on prevalence and related issues". BMC Public Health. 9 (1): 129. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-9-129. ISSN 1471-2458. PMC 2685379. PMID 19426515.
70. "Video: Protests grow over gang rape of Indian woman". London: Telegraph. 19 December 2012. Archived from the original on December 19, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
71. "Temple at centre of tragedy: No one coming to mandir for days now - Times of India". The Times of India. 13 April 2018.
72. "Kathua case: Charges of rape and murder framed against 7 accused". The Economic Times. 7 June 2018.
73. "How Nirbhaya case changed rape laws in India | India News - Times of India". The Times of India. 19 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
74. Gahlot, Mandakini. "Outrage in India over U.S. tourist gang-rape, latest in attacks". USA TODAY. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
75. "A tourist in India posted a video saying she was gang raped. A national debate ensued". NPR. 12 March 2024.
76. The Portuguese and the Marathas: Articles of Dr. Pandurang S. Pissurlenkar's Portugueses e Maratas Sambandha ii. 49 (1983) Pissurlencar, P. S.
77. Sarkar, Jadunath (1932) Fall of the Mughal Empire: Vol 1 Santiniketan Biswa Bharati Library
78. Ont. teacher detained in Indonesia as gang-rape witness Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine Toronto News, July 17, 2014
79. 22-Year-Old Malaysian Student Gang Raped In Indonesia Archived 2014-07-25 at archive.today Malaysia, May 2014
80. Indonesian woman gang-raped, faces caning for adultery Archived 2017-07-14 at the Wayback Machine May 6, 2014
81. Iranian Women call for action on gang-rapes Archived October 2, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Amnesty International (1 August 2011)
82. Gang rapes in Iran cause fear and religious controversy Archived 2018-12-07 at the Wayback Machine BBC News (15 June 2011)
83. Four convicted rapists hanged Archived 2013-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Parvand Iran News (12 October 2011)
84. "Four sentenced to death for gang rape". Insideofiran.org. 2011-08-12. Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
85. Six men hanged for gang rape Archived 2013-10-17 at the Wayback Machine August 2013
86. ^ T Leong, Malaysian teenager gang-raped by 38 men Archived 2019-02-02 at the Wayback Machine Reuters
87. "Schoolgirl raped by 30 men - Nation - The Star Online". www.thestar.com.my. 28 May 2014. Archived from the original on 2014-06-01. Retrieved 2014-06-02.
88. Onyejekwe, Chineze J. (2008). Nigeria: The Dominance of Rape. Journal of International Women's Studies, 10(1), pp. 48–63
89. Akinade, E. A., Adewuyi, T. D. O., & Sulaiman, A. (2010). Socio-legal factors that influence the perpetuation of rape in Nigeria. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 5, pp. 1760–1764
90. Du Mont J., White D. (2013). "Sexual violence: what does it take for the world to care about women?". Journal of Public Health. 35 (2): 182–184. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdt045. PMID 23616625.
91. Dartnall, E., & Jewkes, R. (2012). Sexual violence against women: The scope of the problem. Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology.
92. Crime report Archived 2014-01-08 at the Wayback Machine Shakeel Anjum, The News (Pakistan)
93. Pakistan: Girl gang-raped as local punishment Archived 2013-10-14 at the Wayback Machine IRIN, United Nations News Service (2 July 2002)
94. Pamela Constable, Pakistan Supreme Court frees five in gang-rape case that received global attention, Washington Post (April 21, 2011)
95. Pakistan Supreme Court frees 5 accused of gang rape Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times (April 22, 2011)
96. "9-year-old in critical condition after gang-rape -". www.pakistanpressfoundation.org. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
97. 13 being grilled over gang rape The Nation, Pakistan (June 22, 2013)
98. Alleged Pakistan gag-rape victim to appeal acquittals Archived 2022-01-25 at the Wayback Machine Radio Free Europe (February 1, 2013)
99. Polio-affected girl gang raped in Karachi Archived 2013-09-08 at archive.today CNBC (July 18, 2013)
100. "Transgender person 'gang-raped, videotaped' in Peshawar". The Express Tribune. Karachi. 12 November 2018. Archived from the original on 18 December 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
101. "Saudi Arabia: Rape Victim Punished for Speaking Out | Human Rights Watch". Hrw.org. 2007-11-16. Archived from the original on 2008-11-10. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
102. "Clinton's 'outrage' at Saudi rape sentence - World". smh.com.au. 2007-11-22. Archived from the original on 2014-05-21. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
103. Pleming, Sue (2007-11-19). "U.S. offers mild criticism in Saudi rape case". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2016-01-10. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
104. South Africa, once called ‘the world’s rape capital,’ is running out of rape kits Archived 2015-07-05 at the Wayback Machine Caitlin Dewey, Washington Post, March 5, 2013
105. ^ "South Africa's rape shock". BBC News. 1999-01-19. Archived from the original on 2019-04-02. Retrieved 2010-05-26.
106. Crime Research and Statistics, South African Police Service (2013) Archived November 19, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
107. Swart L et al. Rape surveillance through district surgeons’ offices in Johannesburg, 1996–1998: findings, evaluation and prevention implications.South African Journal of Psychology, 2000, 30:1–10.
108. "Rape has become a way of life in South Africa". Health Systems Trust. 2013-11-01. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
109. Sterling, Carol; Vogelman, Lloyd (1990). "The Sexual Face of Violence: Rapists on Rape". Agenda (6): 26. doi:10.2307/4065538. ISSN 1013-0950. JSTOR 4065538.
110. ^ "Gang Rape and the Culture of Violence in South Africa". www.csvr.org.za. Archived from the original on 2021-02-25. Retrieved 2013-09-06.
111. ^ Rachel Jewkes et al, Why, when and how men rape: understanding rape perpetration in South Africa Archived 2014-12-30 at the Wayback Machine, South African Crime Quarterly, Vol. 34, December 2010, pp. 23–31
112. Spain: 70-Year-Old 'Leads Gang Rape' of British Tourist in Malaga Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine International Business Times (2013)
113. Múltiple violación infantil en Huelva Archived 2015-02-11 at the Wayback Machine La Razon, Spain
114. "Four members of 'The Wolf Pack' given fresh prison terms for abusing an unconscious woman". 4 June 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-01-12. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
115. ^ Dramatisk ökning av antalet anmälda gruppvåldtäkter Archived 2019-01-13 at the Wayback Machine. Forskning & Framsteg (2013-10-09). Retrieved on 2017-01-25.
116. "Facebook Live 'broadcasts gang rape' of woman in Sweden". BBC. 23 January 2017. Archived from the original on 25 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
117. "Man in Sweden 'live-streamed gang rape on Facebook'". The Local Europe AB. 22 January 2017. Archived from the original on 23 January 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
118. "Three men arrested in Sweden after Facebook Live 'gang-rape'". The Guardian. 2017-01-23. Archived from the original on 2018-04-08. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
119. "Swedish police arrest 3 for broadcasting rape live to Facebook". Deutsche Welle. Reuters. 23 January 2017. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2017.
120. Sharman, Jon (2017-01-23). "Sweden gang rape 'live-streamed on Facebook'". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2018-04-09. Retrieved 2018-04-08.
121. "De är män som våldtar kvinnor tillsammans: "Jag tyckte det var en rolig grej att filma"". Expressen (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
122. "112 pojkar och män dömda för gruppvåldtäkt". Aftonbladet (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
123. Bakr, Amena (2013-07-21). "Woman jailed in Dubai after reporting rape hopes to warn others". Reuters. Archived from the original on 2015-12-10. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
124. "Emirati woman, 18, retracts claim of rape by six men". The National (Abu Dhabi). 2010-05-25. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
125. "Two Get 15 Years in Dubai Rape Case". ABC News. 19 February 2009. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
126. Louise Jury (1997-04-12). "Schoolboy guilty of tourist gang-rape - News". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2014-02-26. Retrieved 2014-02-13.
127. "Out of Mind, Out of Sight: Breaking down the barriers to understanding child sexual exploitation" (PDF). ceop.police.uk. June 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-17. Retrieved 2016-10-21.
128. "Police concern at gang rape rise". British Broadcasting Corporation. 5 November 2009. Archived from the original on 14 February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
129. ^ Samura, Sorious (21 June 2009). "Gang rape: Is it a race issue?". The Independent. Archived from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
130. Malone, Carole (19 May 2013). "Oxford grooming ring was race-hate gang rape". Mirror. Archived from the original on 23 March 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
131. Home Affairs Committee (10 June 2013). Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming: Second Report of Session 2013–14 (PDF). by authority of the House of Commons
     London: The Stationery Office Limited. p. 5. ISBN 9780215058867. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 September 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2017.
132. Child sexual exploitation: response to second report of the Home Affairs Committee (PDF). London: Home Office. 10 September 2013. p. 23. ISBN 9780101870528. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
133. Flanagan, Padraic (23 March 2014). "'Rape is a weapon against gang girls', says report". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2022-01-12.
134. Joe Watts (2018-07-26). "Home Secretary orders investigation into ethnic origin of sexual grooming gangs - News". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2018-07-26. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
135. "Grooming gang research petition to be considered for Parliamentary debate - News". BBC. 2020-03-12. Archived from the original on 2020-03-15. Retrieved 2020-03-22.
136. "CTS12_Sexual_violence.xls". www.unodc.org. Archived from the original on 2012-07-04.
137. Solnit, Rebecca (24 January 2013). "A Rape a Minute, A Thousand Corpses a Year". The Naiton. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 24 September 2018.
138. Horvath, Miranda et al. Handbook on the Study of Multiple Perpetrator Rape. Routledge 2013, p. 15.
139. Rape Myths and Facts, RW University (2012) Archived 2013-09-09 at the Wayback Machine
140. "Teenager 'gang raped on Facebook live while dozens watched and did nothing'". Archived from the original on 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
141. JUNGEN, ANNE (9 November 2017). "2 La Crosse teens charged in gang rape of 2 girls inside South Side garage". Archived from the original on 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
142. "Defendant in Cleveland gang rape case gets life sentence". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2013-09-27. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
143. Gafni, Matthias. "Richmond gang-rape 'main participant' sentenced to 32 years - San Jose Mercury News". Mercurynews.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
144. Goldgeier, Kathy (23 June 2017). "Third Former Vanderbilt Football Player Found Guilty in Rape of Unconscious Student". NPR. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
145. St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office. "4 men found guilty in gang rape of 15-year-old in St. Tammany". The Times-Picayune. Archived from the original on 2013-10-16. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
146. Gurnonegurnon, Emily (2013-07-15). "Teen in St. Paul gang rape gets more than three years". St. Paul Pioneer Press. Archived from the original on 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
147. "Ringleader of gang rape, murder sentenced to death". WSVN. Archived from the original on October 17, 2013. Retrieved 2013-11-05.

1. Which includes North India, South India, Goa, Gujarat and Bengal

Further reading

• Durham, Meenakshi G. (February 2013). ""Vicious assault shakes Texas town": the politics of gender violence in The New York Times' coverage of a schoolgirl's gang rape". Journalism Studies. 14 (1): 1–12. doi:10.1080/1461670X.2012.657907. S2CID 141709189.
• Finnegan, Michael (September 26, 2018). "Third accuser Julie Swetnick alleges Kavanaugh attended 1982 party where she was gang-raped". Los Angeles Times.

• Gang rape
• Sexual misconduct
• Sex crimes
• Rape by type