Rape Survivors

The introduction of Nils Christie’s ‘Ideal victim’ theory (1986: 18) refers to victims of crime who can attain the status of a legitimate victim in the eyes of the public. Christie outlines a criteria which needs to be followed in order to gain this full status of a ‘legitimate victim’. Christie’s ‘ideal victim’ however is not the same as a legal victim and often real victims of crime deviate far from the concept of the ideal victim (Beck & Janbakhsh 2010). This therefore means that using Christie’s ideal victim theory to give someone the title of a legitimate victim is often detrimental. Male victims of sexual assault often deviate from the ‘ideal victim’ criteria set out by Christie, this means that when they encounter the justice system, their experiences are often marginalised or discounted entirely.

Another problem directly linking and contributing to the problem of the number of reported cases , is the small amount of cases that successfully prosecute the accused. In a recent report, statistics show that only 10 per cent of 7000 sexual and indecent assaults reported to the police resulted in the accused being found guilty. In another statistic, Shadow attorney-general Chris Hartcher says, “only 1 percent of offenders get a jail sentence and it puts victims off coming forward to report rape.” Through the statistics, victims can only see the law as it promoted, the unjust and the little security of a successful conviction, giving them more of a reason to not report their cases. With the little percentage of a conviction, the law shows that the situation is as it is, due to the many unattended flaws. Flaws such as the undefined meaning of consent and the laws blindness towards the experience victims have encountered. With the combination of all these factors, it is only natural that a victim does not feel the need to report their case as nothing but a more disturbing experience will be its outcome.

Introduction: Crime increases and criminals cannot magically disappear off the earth. Victims will continue to be harassed, assaulted, and emotionally distressed. Family, friends, pastors, and mediators cannot erase the pain a victim suffers from. As a society what can occur in order for justice to be served. The personal changes for the victim justice system to conjoin the criminal justice system which are as follows; general victimology; critical victimology, and victim’s movement.

“It wasn’t rape you were being such a tease.” “NO I said. I covered my vagina with both of my hands and I said NO! I was with a close male friend and I thought I was safe. I thought I was safe when I went out drinking with said friend and I thought I was safe when we went to my place to “hangout.” This is an anonymous rape survivor’s story. These common occurrences affect a fair portion of the population in Missoula, in comparison to the national average, and something should be done. There is also a low number of people who are there to support and help the survivors of sexual assault.

Therapy for survivors of rape is often difficult to obtain. The lack of availability of counselors who specialize in specific trauma treatments, like prolonged exposure and cognitive-processing therapy, as well as lack of insurance and location, are hardships for treatment-seeking individuals. Therefore, it is important to pinpoint the most effective treatments for those who have suffered the trauma of rape. The purpose of this research is to outline the most effective, lasting, and current treatments used to treat female survivors of sexual assault.

Which in an interview presented in the article authors, Kim K. P. Johnson, Sharron J. Lennon, and Theresa Lennon Schulz, Hegland and Johnson (1995) mad an interview with 41 rape survivors to determine how many women were actually assaulted for wearing sexy clothing. In which the majority stated, the outfit they were wearing the day they were rape had nothing to do with the fact of being raped. As well as mentioning that these women did not choose the outfit they were going to wear that day as a means of sexual consent or sexual advances. With these results it demonstrates that in reality all the assumptions and myths created by society in particular women does not affect if a women’s particular attire will cause sexual harassment. It is the assumptions that society has created within themselves to maintain a justification for women who wear sexy clothing. A women who wears tight fitted clothing, or “sexy” attire does not make her a potential target for sexual harassment, nor does it make her responsible because there is no prove to show that this is the case in every myth a stereotype. It is just assumptions like many others society creates within to establish a justification for why a person expresses their own free will.

The past 20 years has seen a depth and maturation to the office of victims of crimes, which have influenced the changes in the roles and the perceptions of victims in the criminal justice system. That has lead to an increase in the new inputs of research to practice, improvements in individual trauma victims responses (through telling their story and help them ventilate), and to groups subjected to the same harrowing incident providing group crisis intervention). Also, it has lead to the development and strengthening of services to under-aided victims and a universal drive to write and enhance the victims’ rights in the justice system and to impose those rights (Young & Stein, 2004).

Beatrix Campbell has issued an article called Rape:the Truth, calling for people to listen to the true facts about rape and embrace that the justice systems today are really broken. This article introduces the readers to uncommon knowledge about rape and rape suspects that have been conducted by law enforcement officers in Great Britain in 2007. The show is a fictional proceeding of how much concern and care is put into catching a

In today's society, the promotion of rape culture is heavily prevalent. Despite the world making massive headway in a multitude of social injustices, victim blaming and the willingness to ignore the truth in media are still major issues. Although one may not realize, both local and global media frequently create pieces that are biased - using prejudice in favor of one group or individual - to blindly sway public opinion.

525,6000 minutes in a year; every 2 minutes a sexual assault occurs. That’s an average of 293,066 victims every year (Langton and Truman). Rape cases have made headlines in national newspapers; even have gone viral on social media. Recently, the public’s reactions to these stories have become a problem of its own. Campaigns have been created to help raise awareness of the backlash rape victim’s experience.

When you’re a star, they let you do it,” he had the gall to say. No, Donald Trump, they didn’t “let” you do it.

Date Rape is the well-known act of persuaded, or potentially forced, unconsented sex with another person. There are numerous explanations for why date rapes, or rapes in general, occur. As laid out in some academic papers, prescribed cultural masculine ideologies may be the explanation for the motive of the act. Merton and Durkeim’s Strain Theory gives some bases in the explanation of this, as pertaining the strain involved in achieving these ideologies (goals). Some initiatives by social programs prevent rape crimes by educating men about the false masculinity portrayed to them and to fight the culture surrounding it. Strain theory, as well as social learning theory, give some explanation to why date rapes are committed and social development programs may be a preventative. Specifically, what is date rape in legal terms and who does it involve?

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.

Kingkade said that officers routinely ask questions on victims in a way that put blame on the victims. Prosecutors and detectives also make little effort to nothing in defending and looking for pieces of evidence that can put the suspect in prison. With this system, out of 100 rapes, an estimate of 5 cases placed the suspect behind bars. As the government is acting like this, society is no different. Thus, the human rights of the victim are already abused because of the suspect and are added with the abuse of the government’s system destroying the right of their

On a Monday morning, at 10am, in the office of the association, Solidarité Feminine, the atmosphere was calm and relaxed. With a simple phone call and the atmosphere was disturbed violently. After the call, the police had just brought a young mother and her two children to the association. In the picture provided by the authorities, was a young face torn by the blade of a knife and her left cheek was abraded and revealed raw flesh. This is the story of a young teen mother that has not only been the victim, of a horrific crime, rape, but more importantly, she is further victimized by being severely cast out by the society. Many teen girls in Morocco are raped, impregnated, then rejected by their family, society and father of the baby, which