One’s home environment could be a key contributor to people committing sexual violence. This is one of the findings of researchers who investigated why men rape. Neuroscientist, Dr Lihle Qulu, says that factors like early-life abuse, or growing up in a home where there is a culture of substance abuse and violence could greatly contribute to someone committing sexual crimes. Qulu was speaking as there is growing concern about whether rapists can be rehabilitated to the point that they can be safely returned to society. It relates to outrage over the rape and murder of Tazne van Wyk three years ago, and now a case in Kraaifontein, where a convicted rapist had allegedly murdered an eight-year-old boy.