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Delayed reporting of the rape victim
A W Burgess1, W P Fehder, C R Hartman
1University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing, Philadelphia 19104, USA.
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
1. Delayed reporting of rape may be due to impaired cognitive processing, altered states of consciousness, or cognitive dissonance. 2. DNA may speak for the victim who does not remember a rape due to being unconscious. 3. Women with psychosis may incorporate a rape into their delusional system.