Department of Criminology, Law and Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL, 60607-7140, USA.
Department of Criminology and Justice Studies, California State University, Northridge, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2019 Oct;48(7):2105-2116. doi: 10.1007/s10508-019-1441-6. Epub 2019 Jul 20.
Researchers have categorized level of impact of drinking during alcohol/substance facilitated sexual assaults as unimpaired (perceived no effect of drinking), impaired (conscious, but impacted by substance use), or incapacitated (unconscious due to substance use). However, researchers have not always agreed on what constitutes these categories, and no qualitative research has been done to date to explore those discrepancies. Such work is needed in order to listen to survivors' voices, using their perspectives and experiences to develop trauma-informed practices specific to survivors of alcohol-involved assaults. The current study sought to shed light on impaired/incapacitated sexual assault experiences presenting 141 qualitative written responses of women who were drinking and/or using substances at the time of their assault. Results showed that while some responses aligned with previous researcher-defined quantitative impaired/incapacitated categories, most responses coded could be considered both impaired and incapacitated, or neither of these categories. Implications for further research, particularly qualitative work, are discussed specifically challenging previous research on impaired/incapacitated sexual assault experiences.
研究人员将饮酒对酒精/物质辅助性侵犯的影响程度分为未受影响（无饮酒影响的感知）、受损（意识清醒，但受到物质使用的影响）或丧失能力（因物质使用而无意识）。然而，研究人员对这些类别并没有始终达成一致意见，迄今为止也没有进行任何定性研究来探索这些差异。为了倾听幸存者的声音，需要进行这样的工作，利用他们的观点和经验，针对受酒精影响的性侵犯幸存者制定创伤知情的实践。本研究旨在阐明受损/丧失能力的性侵犯经历，其中包括 141 份女性的定性书面回复，这些女性在遭受侵犯时正在饮酒和/或使用物质。结果表明，虽然一些回复与之前研究人员定义的定量受损/丧失能力类别一致，但大多数编码的回复既可以被认为是受损的，也可以被认为是丧失能力的，或者不属于这两个类别之一。特别探讨了对受损/丧失能力的性侵犯经历的先前研究，讨论了对进一步研究，特别是定性研究的影响。
