And in 1989, registered same-sex partners obtained almost the same legal status as married heterosexuals (Bech, H. 1998). ... The sexual revolution was a groundbreaking chapter in Danish history goes without saying. ... In May 1989, the Danish Parliament passed a pioneer bill on registered partnership between same-sexed persons, and on October 1, 1989, Axel and Eigil Axgil were married at the City Hall of Copenhagen as the first homosexual couple in the world. From 1989 to 1997, just over 5,000 individuals were officially registered as partners (Frisch 2003). While religion has influenced the...

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Cases were found to be frequently not proceeded with somewhere between the filing of the report, and the committal process (Chambers and Miller 1987) In fact, according to Edwards (1989, cited Gregory and Lees, 1996, p3) out of 773 reported cases a crime report was made in only 93 assaults, and an incident report in a further 73 cases. ... According to Anna Clark, (1987, cited Smart, 1989, p41) consent was not a matter of a woman's will, or whether she resisted or not. ... The complainant stated that other traumatic areas of the trial were related to the Corroboration warning and the fact...

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In humans, men tend to exhibit lower levels of parental investment in offspring than women do (Low, 1989). ... Throughout time, a person's history of sociosexual behavior exhibits his or her general division of effort to short-term v. long-term mating strategies (Roff, 1992). Nevertheless, at any given point in life, previous sociosexual behavior indicates a person's individual experiential history in the mating field, and it could also be suggestive of his or her customary behavioral tendencies in this matter. ...

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Sex offenders are a highly diverse group of people, but all are individuals who have at least one of the following crimes in common: have committed violent sexual assault on a stranger, have had inappropriate sexual contact with a family member, have molested a child or any other inappropriate and c...

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Although crime victim surveys produce more accurate estimates of incidence and prevalence rates than police statistics, and confirm that many offences are not reported to police, they too are acknowledged to underestimate violent crimes of an intimate nature, particularly sexual assault, domestic violence and child abuse (Grabosky 1989; National Committee on Violence 1990). ...

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