Alcohol and drug use by rapists and their victims

Rape is the expression of a model of sexual behaviour in which violence, whether physical or mental, reaches its height, and in which alcohol and other psychoactive substances as factors associated with the crime play a large part. The purpose of this study was to use discriminant analysis to establish those variables which would allow us to establish, within the sphere of such crimes, the consumption of alcohol and other substances, either singly or in combination, by the aggressor and/or in combination, by the aggressor and/or the victim. A total of 86 cases of rape heard before the provincial court of Murcia (Spain) between 1980 and 1986 were analyzed. The data was analyzed with the BMDP statistics package. Alcohol consumption by aggressors was significantly associated with evening and night hours and injury to the victim.