THE RAPE THEORY AND PHENOMENON AMONG TEENAGERS

Abstract

Social problems in Malaysia is on its red alert, especially involving rape and sexual assault among teenagers. Due to this serious increment, all the researches regarding theories and rape phenomenon among teenagers are supposed to benefit the citizens. Thus, this concept paper aims to briefly discuss the rape theories and explain the rape phenomenon among teenagers as well as the advantages obtained from rape case studies. Several rape theories and importance of understanding rape phenomenon include to introduce new branch of knowledge in psychological counselling and consequently, those importance’s would benefit the counselling practitioners (teachers, counsellors, counselling and psychology lecturers), parents, citizens, government institutions and not to forget, the NGOs.