No, I can't, and a moment's thought should make it obvious to you why such a study would be extremely difficult to perform (how do you tell when rapes were deterred by armed victims, and how do you get the statistics on that when the rape attempts may never have gotten past the point of the villain going "Crap! She's got a knife [taser, gun, H-bomb]! I'm outta here!").
Having said that, are you seriously arguing against the premise that rapists are more likely to pick on small, weak, or unarmed people than they are on big, strong, or armed people? If this were true, then rapists would be utterly-unlike most violent criminals -- and indeed, most known human beings!
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Date: 2013-10-06 07:09 pm (UTC)Having said that, are you seriously arguing against the premise that rapists are more likely to pick on small, weak, or unarmed people than they are on big, strong, or armed people? If this were true, then rapists would be utterly-unlike most violent criminals -- and indeed, most known human beings!