Rape: One Of Today's Biggest And Fastest Growing Issues

“Before the rape I felt good. My life was in order. I was getting ready to get married. Afterward everything changed. I kind of lost who I was as a person…

Approximately 240,000 brutal rapes occur in our prison systems each year (Lozoff). Most of the victims are young, nonviolent male inmates, many of them teenaged first offenders. They are traumatized beyond imagination. Most of these inmates are nonviolent criminals who cannot or will not defend themselves. Unfortunately, this results in many of those nonviolent offenders turning violent by the time they leave prison.

Rape is one of the most widespread and ubiquitous violent crimes facing America, making laws regarding rape and the judicial processing of rape increasingly important. The judicial process itself deters both rape reports and rape convictions. Not only does the judicial processing or rape cases itself deter reports and convictions, but it also has a negative impact on the moral and mental well being of the victims who decide to pursue their cases.

Also, data obtained from the studies of Pace International Law Review led to the statistics that, “Only 51% reported the assault and an atrocious 3% of the reported assaults resulted in the discipline of the abuser.” (Ashmont 6) This builds on the matter of prison officials committing these crimes and not receiving punishments for their actions. Though certain cases of sexual assault are reported to higher powers, not many are taken into account. These statistics add to the overall idea that the occurrences of sexual assault in prison are treated as lightweight matters. Due to the low percentage of cases that follow through to discipline the abuser, more prisoners are held back from informing the authorities. Likewise, newfound evidence confirms that “Victims of prison rape suffer severe physical and psychological injuries that greatly hinder the ability to integrate in to the community...” (Ashmont 11) These effects are one of the many reasons why prison rape should be taken more seriously and why the abusers, no matter their authority, should be severely punished. Though these punishments will not fully compensate for their actions or rid the victims of the emotional effects, they bring prisons one step closer to reforming the system.

Rape has been an issue for many centuries. We have laws to prevent and reduce rape, but laws are not perfect. There are always people out there that cannot follow the laws. If a criminal is caught, the will be brought to justice; however not all the criminals or offenders that break those laws are punished. An uncommon rape that is rarely addressed is correction officers raping female inmates.

Our Presentation will be focused on the issues of male rape and the implications and explanations of it.

Many real rapists and sexual offenders go uncharged or poorly charged. According to Opposing Viewpoints, “Law enforcement is not a viable solution to campus rape because police do a terrible job of holding rapists accountable. According to a recent analysis of Department of Justice data, only 3 percent of all rapists—not just campus rapists—will ever spend a day in jail. Only 40 percent of all rapes are reported to police, and of those, only 10 percent will lead to a felony conviction with slightly fewer seeing the inside of a jail cell” (Caroline, and Baillee Brown). Rapists are not charged fairly because they don’t have a good way to charge them in court. The victims end up feeling helpless and vulnerable with their attacker walking

Not too surprisingly, Richardson and Shields found that sexual assault rates are “3.1 to 4.4 times higher at the most permissive colleges and universities than their more restrictive counterparts”. The strict enforcing of alcohol bans can reduce sexual assault incidents. Socially regulated environments such as those found in religious schools do in fact keep the incidents of rape and sexual assault down. However Richardson and Shields points out that this is not because these schools effectively condemned rape, but rather the restricted environment keeps students in check. However, effectively enforcing alcohol bans as well as bans on overnight guest stays between males and females reduce rape and sexual assault rates “only modestly”. The two researchers stressed that educating students on the links between alcohol and sexual abuse. Coupling well enforced alcohol and overnight guest bans with effective education, security and counselling can dramatically bring down the numbers and incidence of rape and sexual assaults on campus.

In the United States individuals of both genders are being sexually violated, yet way too often their offenders often get off scot free or with very little punishment. Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. The first step to ending such culture is to name the real problem, which is victim-blaming. We treat victims like they’re responsible, which would be obscenely different for any other criminal charge. When a sexual assault is reported on the news the first questions the media asks are about the victim’s sobriety, clothes, or sexuality. The right question is, “What made the attacker think this was acceptable?” Changing a mind set that has been engraved in us for centuries is going to be strenous, yet not impossible. It starts

A lot of people get raped every day. Rape is very traumatizing especially if you know the person who raped you. Lots of foster children were raped at one point in their life. Some were raped by their birth parents and some by their foster parents. Most of these children are scared for their life because most children who are raped in their foster home are generally abused physically too. Adults can also be raped. They are most likely raped by their bosses or a stranger. Most rapes are performed by those who have been raped before. Just like woman, men can be raped.

The prevalence of rape in the U.S. has become so great that you as a woman have a 20% chance of being raped in your lifetime. That prisoners have a 10% chance of being raped. That LGBTQ prisoners have 15 times greater chance of being raped. And that you are twice as likely to be raped as to get breast cancer. That 32,000 women are impregnated each year against their

Rape is an issue that needs to be addressed more often as it is becoming a big issue in America. We teach people to avoid getting rape when we should be teaching people to stop raping. Rape isn’t fair and it shouldn’t be happening at all. 98% of rapists will not spend a day in prison and 68% of sexual assaults aren’t ever reported to police out of confusion and fear. We need to change those statistics in order to provide a safer environment for everyone. People should be able to walk outside and not have to worry or think about rape.

We all have an inner voice. It's the one that tells us how we're doing, whether we're good enough, how we think the world sees us, what we've done wrong and what we’ve done right. We also have a voice around us. Which is best known as society. and this voice not only blames sexual assault victims but also tells potential victims, especially women, that it is their duty to make sure they don't get assaulted. 17.7 million American women have been victims of rape, which makes the United States ranked at 13 for rape. No doubt women are never to blame for their attacks, yet there begs the question, could the woman have avoided the situation altogether if she would have been more responsible? “How can a women cry “rape” when she contributed to the

Most people would agree that as you grow up you learn by seeing, feeling ,touching , smelling, and hearing . Albert Bandura supports this by a theory he created called the Social Learning Theory (McLeod, 2011). Social Learning Theory is a theory that explains that behavior is learned by your social environment, interactions and observations of others. With this theory I would say it supports opinion in which I would say that rape is not something somebody just decides one day to do. I believe that rape is learned throughout time. There are many social and even media factors that sometimes may come off with the intention that rape is acceptable. In some media factors they may even perceive that being forcibly raped is pleasurable. Movies tend to do it often and sometimes movies don 't realize that what people see on television can sometimes influence people to see these acts as a norm. For instance the fact that a college kid is in a frat and he 's in a party there is a good percentage that he would reenact what television had stereotype frats boys to do. Television would label the frat boys as potential rapist and the human mind would consider that when you take on that role as a frat boy. One of the biggest media factors all the way from television to the internet that for so many years that perceive rape as acceptable is pornography.

“Was she really wearing that? No wonder he assumed she wanted it.” Everyone has heard this at least once. The trend of blaming victims for their own rape only justifies the rapist’s actions and help him avoid punishment. It leaves the victim feeling dead inside and traumatized. Rape is one of the worst crimes committed against women. Unfortunately, this hateful crime has been going on for years and persists. Rape has been a global issue. In order to address this crime, one must know what exactly rape is, who is getting blamed for it, and what the aftermath of rape is.