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100	1		_aMEHRL Marius
245			_aFemale combatants and wartime rape: _breconsidering the role of women in armed conflict/ _cMarius Mehrl
260			_c2022
520			_aWhereas existing research posits that the presence of female fighters in armed groups decreases their propensity for wartime rape, one recent study tests this claim quantitatively and is unable to detect a statistically significant effect. This leads the author to conclude that female combatants do not decrease rape. Using that study's original data, this article reexamines the evidence for the relationship between female rebel combatants and wartime sexual violence. Replications of the original models suggest that they make strong functional form assumptions regarding numerous independent variables and time dependence and that relaxing them results in substantively different findings. Namely, women's participation in armed groups decreases groups' use of wartime rape. In support of Loken's organizational theory of rape, results also suggest that this effect is moderated by group norms. These findings contribute to the literature on female participation in rebel groups and beyond.
650			_aSEXUAL VIOLENCE _xRAPE _xFEMALE COMBATANTS _xREBEL GROUPS
773			_aArmed Forces & Society: _gVol. 48, No. 2, April 2022, pp.464-479 (3)
598			_aMILITARY, SOCIAL
856			_uhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0095327X20981696 _zClick here for full text
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