PREDATORY RAPISTS AND VICTIM SELECTION TECHNIQUES

This article examines the self-reported target techniques of 61 sexual offenders incarcerated in a maximum custody prison. Respondents were interviewed using a methodology employing other convicted felons as in terviewers. The data lend support to a rational choice perspective rev ealing predatory rapists as decision makers since they largely attack females whom they perceive as vulnerable. In light of these findings, research is needed curbing fallacies leading to victim vulnerability.