Available evidence suggests that a considerable number of young people experience
nonconsensual sex across the world, however research has mainly concentrated on the …

Recent research in developing countries suggests that a considerable number of young
women may experience forced sex within marriage, but most women may be inhibited from …

Although evidence from developing countries is limited, what is available suggests that
significant numbers of young women have experienced coercive sex. Studies in diverse …

Although there is increasing evidence of risky consensual sex among young people in
developing countries, non-consensual sexual experiences among them have rarely been …

Experiences of forced sexual relations, often perpetrated by an intimate partner, have been
increasingly documented over the last decade. An analysis of over fifty population-based …

Definitions of sexual health increasingly include non-medical factors, and key among these
is freedom from sexual coercion (Population Reference Bureau 1997; WHO 2002) …

The World Report on Violence and Health identifies coerced sex as both a human rights
violation and a major public health problem (Krug et al. 2002). This is perhaps nowhere …

Preceding chapters have shown that non-consensual sex is experienced by significant
percentages of young people in developing countries, and that these experiences have …

Limited data from low-income countries are available on the continuum of coercive
experiences, the contexts in which they occur, and how adolescent women perceive and …

Based on the developmental criminology perspective, this study examines the association
between the history of behaviour problems in childhood and adolescence and the use of …