Victims' Responses to Structured Questions Indicated an Association Between Alcohol

question 4

Multiple Choice

Victims' responses to structured questions indicated an association between alcohol and rape, but when victims elaborated on their experiences in qualitative interviews, Testa, et al. (2011) concluded that ______.

• A) the victims had had so much to drink that they were unconscious or at least unable to speak at the time of the rape
• B) the stories of the victims matched up perfectly with the stories of the alleged perpetrators
• C) the data was untrustworthy due to tainted evidence
• D) there was no connection

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