Résumé

         The link between alcohol use and rape has been researched extensively over the past three decades.  A number of studies have been published that focus on alcohol consumption by the victim, aggressor or both.  Several have reported that when rape occurs, alcohol use is a factor in between 50% to 66% of the studied cases.  Alcohol as a risk factor is frequently associated with the severity of victimization outcome (i.e., completed vs. attempted rape; severity of victim injury) as well as with "repeat victimization" (as where a single victim suffers multiple rapes over time: see, e.g., Lauritsen & Davis Quinet 1995).  

These studies can be used as tools toward rape prevention (see, e.g., Allen 2003), a concept often associated with "risk factor reduction" (that is, "rape avoidance strategies").  The purpose of this meta-analysis is to contribute to the knowledge base linking alcohol use to sexual violence, and to assist in the assimilation of evidence that can be utilized by rape avoidance programs.

Mots-clés

Victimization ; rape ; prevention ; alcohol