Marital Rape In The United States

Crimes have been occurring throughout history since the beginning of time, criminal mishaps extend back to Cain murdering his brother Abel. However, over time new crimes more severe than murder have come about that have ripped the moral fabric of an individual’s whole being. Date rape, a topic that has been widely discussed in America has been occurring more and more frequently. Many individuals know little others know infinite amounts on the topic, yet there are still many misconceptions about the topic. In America date rape has become a growing epidemic on the rise, affecting men and women, causing physical damage, intense emotional effects, death and long-lasting effects on victims.

Post World War I northeast Oklahoma was one of the most racially and politically divided and tense atmospheres in the country. The areas were occupied with slave owning native american’s, former slave owning white families that resettled from the deep south and blacks that after world war I resettled for work within the oil fields of Oklahoma. On september 26th, 1907 Oklahoma was established into the Union of the United States, and one of its first orders of business was to implement Jim Crow laws and voting loopholes that did not let blacks hold public office or serve on city official boards, and made it near impossible to vote until the 1965 voting right acts. All three governments, State, City, and National were all partially to blame

Sexual assault is not just a crime against an individual, it affects families, the community, and society as a whole. In recent years, our society has shifted to one of rape culture and rape myth. Rape myths are erroneous, stereotypical, and prejudicial beliefs about rape victims and reasons of sexual assault. Rape myths can impact survivors of assault, as well as the behavior and effectiveness of family, friends, medical and social services, and law enforcement (Rape Victim Advocates, 2016). Rape impacts our society by attacking the cohesion and mutual protection that makes a society. When we allow such crimes to go without the most vigorous and vigilant investigation and punishment, we allow for whole segments of society to be diminished, we are sending the message that society is okay with rape (Abbey,

Sexual assault has been huge problem on college campus. College female students have been targets of sexual assault acts, According to Robin Gray “Between 20% and 25% of women will experience a completed and/or attempted rape during their college career.” Sexual assault is when is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat. There are laws that protect women in all types of setting from being victims of sexual assault. The government had made some changes to the laws of sexual assault over the past decade to protect the girls and women so justice can be served. The president Obama has been enforcing a law for the young women in colleges.

It isn’t a family, it’s a felony. Parents who are in custody battles use cases of abuse and neglect to win, so why are rape custody cases so different? There are 19 states that automatically terminate parental rights to attackers that impregnated woman through rape. But what happens if your attacker wasn’t convicted? What if he was found not guilty? Then you have to provide “clear and convincing evidence” that the child was conceived through rape. Does that even make sense? Shouldn’t it be common sense to take away any sort of right to seeing the child if he/she was conceived through forced sex? Things like this make it that much harder for victims to come forward about their assault.

The Hunting Ground features firsthand accounts exposing numerous rape cases on campuses around the nation. These cases were hidden and neglected by the universities in order to maintain low on-campus crime statistics. This movie features survivors sharing their cases and the neglect they received from their universities and their fight to receive justice. Two rape survivors, Andrea Pino and Annie Clark, established a network of other survivors and built a Title IX legal case against their university for how their rape cases were handled. Overall, this movie sheds light on a rape epidemic that is plaguing many men and women across the nation.

Following natural disasters sexual assault increases in affected areas. Some victims of these storms are sent to shelters with little security and are put with untrustworthy people. At some of these shelters women and men are not separated from each other. Even young girls are forced to set up their beds next to strange men. Many people, male and female, are raped or molested in these unsupervised areas. Most incidents go unreported due to the busy law enforcement (Blanch). Women are even more vulnerable to rape if they are the caretaker of the family. If these women in particular go out to get supplies alone, they might just become a victim of sexual assault. The recent influx of natural disasters across the world has brought unimaginable devastation. Many have lost their homes, cars, and valuables due to these monster events. With little help from the

We have seen rape-law reform takes place in the United States over the last decade.The evolution of awareness of rape changed federal legislation which was enacted in 1994 and known as the Violence against Women Act (VAWA). This act was reauthorized in 2000 and 2005. Many attempts have been made by researchers to measure rape, and the findings vary across the board. There are a lot of rape statics that are very unreliable and misleading. Rape is determined and counted by the data source that is used. The FBI’s UCR Program reported 88,097 in 2009, and these were completed or attempted rapes. The best measure of rape is the National Violence against Women (NVAW) Survey. 18% of

The first attempted prosecution of a husband for the rape of his wife was R v. Clarke. Rather than try to argue directly against Hale’s logic, the court held that consent in this instance had been revoked by an

In the United States sex crimes are a serious problem and the legal system don’t have a process of punishing sex criminals. My project show sex offenders don’t get sufficient prison sentence and parole is often too quick. The men that appears feminine will give the impression they are gay and masculine women will take the role as a lesbian. This project shed light on the race, age, gender, education level, and marital status of sex offenders within neighborhoods and communities. Although, sex offenders have evolved with the help of the internet and portable devices.

There is a misperception that one cannot be charged for a sexual crime against their spouse. That is not true. In almost every state, the sexual assault laws have been extended to cover spousal sexual abuse. It can no longer be accepted at face-value that the sex act between married couples did not involve sexual abuse. If the spouse refused to participate in the sex act and was forced to have sex under a threat, or fear of bodily harm, this will be considered sexual abuse and if reported, the perpetrator can be charged.

The acceptance of rape myths and sexual scripts are also major contributors to the thriving rape culture. Rape myths are the false but commonly-held beliefs about rape, and they are closely related to sexual scripts, the culturally established prototypes for how sexual encounters should proceed. Both of these elements support the act of rape and promote the victim blaming and normalization that rape culture entails. Key rape myths include: 1. Husbands can’t rape their wives, 2. Men must engage in sex once sexually aroused 3.Women ask to be raped 4. Rapist are different from most other men 5. Women enjoy rape 6. Women lie about being raped. These incorrect principles can be traced to the patriarchal system that accepts and fosters rape as an

Marital rape, or spousal rape, had been an exceedingly controversial and touchy subject in the United States since the first feminist movement in the 1960s. In this paper, marital rape and spousal rape will be used interchangeably. One of the many challenges in addressing the topic of marital rape, is defining what behaviors should be considered rape. Rape is defined as the unlawful compelling of a person through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse (Dictionary.com). The legal definition of marital rape, however, differs within the United States. Nevertheless, marital rape can generally be defined as any non-consensual interaction or penetration (vaginal, anal, and/or oral) obtained by force, violence, duress, menace, or fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury on the person or another (Cal Pen Code § 262). Most research having to do with marital rape has included couples who are legally married, separated, divorced or cohabiting with the understanding that the dynamics of sexual violence in a long-term cohabiting relationship are similar to those of a married couple (Mahoney and Williams, 1998). Currently, there has been no study of marital rape that has included married or cohabiting gay or lesbian couples. The reason there is a lack of representation of gay and lesbian couples on

A crime in America that is committed all too often is the act of forcible rape. Forcible rape is not a crime only against women. The definition was recently changed to aid in gender neutrality and to account for forcible rapes among same gender (FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program, 2013). Forcible rape in now defined as, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR) (2013), “Penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.” Although the act of forcible rape is a serious crime, many incidents go unreported for one reason or another. Some reasoning of why a rape may go unreported include, being embarrassed to tell somebody that you were forcibly raped, the victim knew the criminal and is afraid that further injury may occur if they report the incident to the police, or the victim was possibly drugged and was not aware of the situation. I will describe some of the statistics and trends involved with the act of forcible rape, explain some of the reasoning behind why one feels the need to commit forcible rape on another person, how the social learning theory shaped those individuals into the criminals that they are.

Did you know that on average, there are 321,500 victims (age 12 or older) of rape and sexual assault each year in the United States (RAINN)? Sexual behavior drives some people to engage in unethical situations that can be very harmful. Most Men and women are victims of some type of sexual lewd act on a daily basis, whether is unintentionally or intentionally. People that commit these acts usually have an extensive crime background or have been formerly charged with sexual assault. Many with extreme sexual behaviors are driven to commit rape. Others take a part in indecent exposure to show off their privates to get some type of sexual satisfaction. There are other people who take part in risky sexual behaviors and do not use protection. There is no justifiable reason for anyone to engage in unethical behavior. Sexual behavior is not ethical when rape, indecent exposure, and risky health acts are involved.