After Brock Turner Case Study

Sexual assault is defined by the department of justice as: any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape. Women aged 18-24, in college, are three times greater at risk than the average woman any age. (RAINN). The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has 246 ongoing investigations into how 195 colleges and universities handled sexual assault under Title IX. (Huffington Post). Many ask, Why on college campuses? Why have these statistics been rising? For a rapist or an assaulter, college is

“I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else.” These were the words of a victim of sexual assault at Stanford University in January of 2015, often remembered as the Brock Turner case. Turner, a member of the Stanford swimming team, was found guilty by the jury after being accused of sexually assaulting another Stanford student (whose identity has remained confidential) and ended up with a short sentence of six months (Victor). The sexual assault victim in the turner case is not alone. 1 in every 5 women and 1 in every 12 men are sexually assaulted during their college careers (NSVRC). In other words, between 20 and 25 percent of college women and 4 percent of college men report having been sexually

As a result, Brock Turner was sentenced to six months for his actions. He was also a hopeful Olympic swimmer and was banned from competing in USA Swimming competitions. Many in the country were furious that Turner was only sentenced to six months, believing that he deserved a more appropriate sentence. On the other hand, Turner’s father was upset that his son’s life was ruined by “20 minutes of action” while under the influence of alcohol. Despite the victim arguing for an appropriate legal prosecution and justice for the pain she suffered, the Supreme Court judge assigned to the case, Aaron Persky, stated, “a prison sentence would severe impact on him. I think he will not be a danger to others (Stack). Turner was even released early from

This paper will discuss sexual assault policy from 1972 to 2013. Sexual assault has been addressed in six pieces of legislature. Two of the six policies are layered policies intended to amend failures in preceding policy. Current sexual assault policy exists in the form of Title IX of 1972, the Victims of Crime Act of 1984, the Jeanne Clery Act of 1990, the Campus SaVE Act of 2013, and the SAFER Act of 2013. Of the six, the Campus SaVE Act and SAFER Act were both created to amend earlier policy – the timeline of this amendment reflects several key actions by President Barack Obama and his Vice President Joe Biden. This will be further expand on later in this paper.

Adnan Syed is a muslim kid who lives under his parents rule and is a troublemaker, but does that make him a murderer? Hae Min Lee seamed to drop off the earth one day in 1999. One month later in Baltimore county, Maryland her body was discovered in a park known for bodies. The story of this case is shocking, but is it true? Did Adnan kill Hae? The jury of this case thinks so; do you? I say he didn’t, but maybe his so called “accomplice” did…

On January 15th, 2015, Brock Turner, a White student from Stanford University, was found by two man raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster. The two men chased and held Turner down until police arrived. The victim woke up at the hospital with no know knowledge of the rape. Turner was arrested and pled not guilty to five felony counts, which included

In cases like Elliot Rogers and like Brock Turner's we see how gender favoritism can change the terms of events. For Brock Turner it helped to low the sentence he would receive, and for Elliot Roger it would create this idea of being superior a superior human and a superior race. In cases where the perpetrator is other then white in the United States they are not branded as mentally unhealthy like Elliot and are not taken into consideration on how the crime may affect the perpetrator like what happened for Brock Turner. An “important aspect regarding the link between sexist attitudes and male violence against women concerns the fact that sexist attitudes function as socially shared norms in justifying such violence.” Generally this means “rules

In 2016, The United States Department of Justice released this chilling fact: one out of every four female undergraduates will be victim to some form of sexual assault before graduation. Even more terrifying, the American Civil Liberties Union estimates that at least 95 percent of sexual assaults on college campuses in the United States go unreported. These striking statistics resonate a dire call for increased prevention of sexual assault on campuses across the nation. With the passing of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators in 1994, many universities and colleges began to enact sexual assault protection programs (Breitenbecher Hanson). However, as proven by the recent statistics presented earlier, these programs are

Sexual abuse and assault on college campuses has been a rising issue dating back to the late 1950s. According to The United States Department of Justice, sexual assault is defined as “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and attempted rape.” Sexual assault has long lasting effects that go way beyond the immediate trauma that victims experience in the beginning, including pregnancy, transmitted diseases, anxiety, PTSD, depression, etc. Multiple studies and statistics have shown that not only will “approximately 20% female students

In recent years, there has been a rising concern about sexual assault. There are some statistics which give us a closer look at how serious sexual assault is becoming in colleges and universities.

And last, the report presents ways to “redoubling the work” already being done to fight against the sexual assaults. In this last part, the authors focused mainly on continuing the fight on university campuses, increasing the arrests and conviction rates, and trying to encourage everyone to help fight these vicious crimes.

Ultimately, colleges should actively be attempting to inhibit the amount of sexual assaults that happen on campus by improving security, allow law enforcement to handle cases, creating more approachable options for reporting sexual assaults, and holding self-defense classes. On March 31, 2016 President Barack Obama released a presidential proclamation addressing sexual assault, saying that we needed commit to shifting the “attitudes that allow sexual assault to go unanswered and unpunished, and we redouble our efforts to prevent this human rights violation from happening in the first place” (Obama). There needs to be a reduction in the frequency of these heinous crimes and security must be improved among all colleges. Lighting around the campus

Sexual assault has been a huge issue for many years on college campuses and universities nation wide. As society has evolved, thoughts on sexual assault have also evolved, becoming more focused on the details of victim treatment than ever before. The topic of sexual assault is debatable and sparks many opinions on weather sexual assault on college campuses is becoming more frequent, or if there is just heightened awareness. Sexual assault can happen to anybody no matter the gender, race, religion, or age. Recently there have been many studies conducted on sexual violence on college campuses and universities producing ample amounts of statistics. One may argue that sexual assault rates are the same, but there are simply more studies and attention on sexual assault in the past 20 years. Gender roles have played a huge part in sexual assault on college campuses. Women and men have different expectations when it comes to roles in the relationship, men are often expected to make the first move. One may ask what causes a perpetrator to sexually harass somebody and think it is acceptable. There are various reasons as to why perpetrators do what they do, and may vary from person to person. Although sexual violence is a large problem for many colleges and universities, there is a surprising shortage of federal laws/rules and regulations regarding sexual assault. Colleges are able to develop their own personal policies and procedures for how they will prevent and deal with sexual

Sexual assault and rape are on-going issues plaguing college campuses all across the nation. In part, I believe this is due to a lack of education on what sexual assault actually is. All too often, victims are leaving these situations feeling confused about something that they will forever deem "a weird night". It often isn't until much later that they realize what happened to them was a violation of their body and of their rights.

On January 18, 2015 Brock Allen Turner sexually assaulted an unconscious twenty-two year old female student. In the article Here Is The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read Aloud To Her Attacker written by Katie J.M. Baker she writes about the incident where two graduate students who were out riding bikes spotted the freshman (Turner) and the victim (Jane Doe) interacting in what at first seemed consensual sexual encounter until they got closer and saw that she was motionless and that Turner was aggressively thrusting into her. They then yelled at Turner to get him off of her to which Turner reacted with getting up and rapidly running away. Fourteen months after the incident (March 2016) California jury found the former Stanford student guilty of three counts sexual assault, which included: Assault with Intent to Commit Rape of an Intoxicated/Unconscious person [Penal Code section 220(a)], Penetration of an Intoxicated