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Product Details

  • Paperback: 248 pages
  • Publisher: Basic Books; First Edition edition (October 1979)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0738206245
  • ISBN-13: 978-0738206240
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #500,603 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"A truly superb work." -- New England Journal of Medicine

About the Author

Nicholas Groth, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist is currently the director of Forensic Mental Health Associates. He lives in Orlando, Florida.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Definitive Work, for all Mental Health Professionals
By Dr. Lynn Daugherty on January 23, 2008
Format: Paperback
Although Dr. Groth wrote Men Who Rape in 1979, it has remained the definitive source for information about male sex offenders for all these years. Here he dispels myths about rape through careful documentation, delineates his basic and enduring classification of rape, and explains the psychological dynamics that drive each offender: the Power Rapist, the Anger Rapist, and the Sadistic Rapist. Professionals working with sex offenders, as well as victims of sexual abuse and those trying to help them, need to understand these basic concepts.

Any mental health professional working in the area of sexual abuse of children or adults should be thoroughly familiar with this book, now once again in print and available in paperback. Its academic style makes it difficult for the general public to read easily, but well educated non-professionals will find it worthwhile. In my own work with sexual abuse victims I draw heavily on this resource to help them answer the question, "Why did he rape me?"

-Dr. Lynn Daugherty, Bestselling Author of the Award Winning Classic Why Me? Help for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse (Even if they are adults now), Fourth Edition
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Excellent Rape Psychodymanics/ Victimology Text
By A Customer on January 9, 1998
Format: Paperback
Men Who Rape, though it was written in the 70s, is still a very important work. It covers victims issues and rapist motivational typologies through thoughtful case studies and interpretations. It provided the basis for the FBI serial Rapist Motivational Typologies explored further by Burgess and Hazelwood, and also covers myth and social issues. I use this book to teach on online Rape issues course and really can't think of a work that more competently gets into myths and psychodynamics behind rape behavior better. Even now, twenty years later. Still timely, still useful. Brent E. Turvey, MS, Criminal Profiler, Knowledge Solutions
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
A seminal text about a complex issue.
By A Customer on December 9, 1998
Format: Paperback
This text stands above most others in providing a depth, an intimacy, and a science to the perplexing question of men who rape. It even suggests, against all pc correctness, that men may also be victims of tragic circumstances that lead to their criminal acts. Provides good science, with little politics.
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12 of 16 people found the following review helpful
A Classic.
By warner connick on August 12, 2001
Format: Paperback
This book constitutes the best text in its field, providing a conceptual framework for understanding the dynamics of sexual assault on the part of the offender. It has stood the test of time, having been in print for over twenty years, and remains as relevant today as the day it was written. [It will be reissued in a paperback format by Perseus in December 2001.] MEN WHO RAPE is essential reading for everyone whose work brings them into contact with victims and perpetrators of sexual abuse. It remains the classic text on the psychodymanics of rape.
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6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Somewhat Dated But Useful Resource
By John Crowley on June 14, 2008
Format: Paperback
I work in a prison based sex offender treatment program. I provide court mandated individual and group treatment to offenders in the last 18 months of their sentences. Until recently the majority of my clients have offended against children; however, I was recently assigned 2 rapists whose victims were adults. My supervisor recommended Men Who Rape as a jump-start text for addressing these clients' needs.

The text is very useful in that is provides general classifications for the major types of rapists. It addresses the motivations inherent in each type. It explains the concept that rape is far less about sex than it is about anger, power or control. It uses clinical interviews with both perpetrators and victims to illustrate concepts.

It is a useful basic text. Published in 1979 there is some dating apparent in the language used, most especially in the interviews. But it is worth the money, for the paperback edition anyway.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Pioneering research and framework to the psychology of rapist.
By Laury Leiva on July 25, 2014
Format: Paperback
As a director of a sex offender program within the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers, Dr. Groth provides a framework on rape/sexual violence by conducting his research on offenders in the program using their history, lifestyles and motivations ultimately leading each to the committing the crime. Through this knowledge, Dr. Groth intends to draw focus on ways to detect early signs of someone who may commit rape and treat these offenders. This book outlines popular myths in regards to both rape in general and more specifically the offender and victims. Some myths included the typical belief that described offenders as "oversexed" or the victims are ones that are "seductive or provocative" and that they "only got what she asked for". Dr. Groth debunks these myths by providing insightful interviews with offenders, allowing them to provide their life story leading up to the event and what snapped them to commit rape. The author does explain rape to be a pseudosexual action as it isn't primarily sexually driven and psychodynamic action by outlining the component of his research found on all their offenders: anger, power and sadistic rape. Not only did this book use examples from the personal stories of the rapists, but also did provide chapters in which explained clinical aspects of rape (which is what his researched focused on), the patterns of rape which explained the different 'kinds' of rape which included distinct population of victims (elderly, children and spouses) and situation in which it occurred. In addition, Groth also provided assessment and treatment of offenders. Not surprisingly, as the title infers, this book did not focus on much about the victims. However, I believe the author did complete his purpose of providing an outline of the psychology of rapists.Read more ›
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