An approximation to the identification of contexts, experiences, and profiles of victims of drug-facilitated sexual assaults

• Published in: Journal of forensic and legal medicine 2022-08, Vol.90, p.102376-102376, Article 102376
• Main Authors: Prego-Meleiro, Pablo, Montalvo, Gemma, García-Ruiz, Carmen, Serrano, Begoña Bravo, Ayuso-Tejedor, Sara, Morales, Carmen Megía, Quintela-Jorge, Óscar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Drug-facilitated crimes; Drug-facilitated sexual assault; Sexual violence; Sumisión química
• ISSN: 1752-928X; 1878-7487
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2022.102376

This study advances on overcoming a bias limiting the forensic cases studies of drug-facilitated sexual assaults: a narrow study focus, restricted to assaults affecting young women in leisure contexts related to nightlife, party culture, and dating. A new working framework is applied to analyse data from cases received in the National Institute of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences (Madrid, Spain) over the six years between 2012 and 2017. The work throws light on non-previously described contexts, experiences, and profiles of victims, including domestic cohabitation, labour, education, healthcare, women trafficking, and the daily life of people with intellectual disabilities. •Expanding forensic cases studies about drug-facilitated sexual assaults.•New contexts, experiences and victims of drug-facilitated sexual assaults.•An innovative research scheme for improving forensic cases studies.•Vulnerability conditions affecting victims of drug-facilitated sexual assaults.