Sexual Assault And Rape In Today's Society Must End

In 2015, Brock Turner, a student and swimmer from Stanford University, sexually assaulted a 22-year old woman. The victim was drunk and unconscious at the time of intercourse, and absolutely no consent was given to Turner. Brock Turner simply received a 6-month sentence, which was later reduced to 3-months. Similarly, a 20-year old man from Dallas, Texas, Sir Young, was given a very light sentence after pleading guilty to the rape of a 14-year old girl when he was 18. The rapist received only 45 days in jail, a 5 year probation, 250 community hours, and did not have to follow sex offender regulations, such as staying away from children, going to treatment and evaluation, and no pornography restrictions. The judge stated that the reason she did not lengthen his sentence was because the victim “wasn't the victim she claimed to be” since she had a history of 3 sexual partners and had already given birth to a child. These unbelievably light sentences do not protect women from these men and encourage women not to speak up if they’re victims. Our own justice system continues to fail in providing us our justice while those people get what they

The first case study that will be discussed is the Stanford rape case which occurred at Stanford University campus in January 18th 2015. The perpetrator’s name is Brock Turner. Turner and the victim attended a Kappa Alpha fraternity party. He was found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman, who was found unconscious and heavily incapacitated behind a dumpster in an alleyway. The victim was given a pseudo-name (Emily Doe), and remains anonymous. Turner was a three-time champion athlete swimmer and was sentenced to six months in prison and three years of probation; as well as being permanently on the sex offender registry, and was also ordered to attend the sex offender rehabilitation program. Turner was accounted for five charges, which includes two for rape, two for felony assault, and an attempted rape. The actual jail term for raping an individual is 14 years in imprisonment (Collman et al., 2016; Pleasance, 2016).

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.

Start blaming the system, not the victim. Sexual assault is a crime that is very common, yet the punishment perpetrators receive is not as harsh as it needs to be to reduce the occurrence of these crimes. Laws concerning sexual crimes have been edited over decades to be stricter however, sex offenders typically receive little or no punishment. Sexual Assault is defined as any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient (“Sexual Assault”). Victims of sexual assault are often blamed as the reason for the crime being committed while the blame is taken away from the offender. Harsher punishment must be enacted on sex offenders because the victims suffer conflict from the crime throughout their

Consensual sex in is a complicated and serious issue that affects college campuses throughout the United States. On September 18th, 2014, the Governor of California, Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill No. 967 and with it, established a new standard and definition of consent. California is the first state to pass an affirmative consent law for its universities (Grinberg 2014). The law mandates that public universities, community college districts and private colleges that receive state resources for student financial aid to incorporate affirmative-consent language into their sexual-assault policies. Furthermore, the law stipulates that all students attending the colleges and universities must seek “affirmative consent” before engaging in sexual activity. The law reads that consent must be “ongoing through a sexual activity” and “lack of protest or silence” does not mean that consent is given (SB-967 “Student safety: sexual assault”, 2014)

The hopes of the curriculum is to implement the idea of consent throughout the entire sex-ed program. This is an incredibly important topic to talk about, especially at a young age. The Ontario sexual education

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.

One of the philosophies not commonly used with sexual assault crimes is incapacitation. Although a perpetrator is placed in prison, rehabilitation immediately occurs. As for incapacitation, it does not require any assumptions about the criminal’s rationalism or “root causes” of the criminal’s behavior. Having the perpetrator incarcerated is beneficial because the physical restraint of incarceration prevents the commission of further crimes against society during the duration of the sentence. Reducing crimes is the most important factor is setting punishments (Muhlhausen, 2010). The problem is that sexual assault is one of the hardest crimes to prove. There are many factors that come in play such as the victim’s behavior, evidence and how it was handled by law enforcement. However, it the process goes through, then incapacitation will be able to reduce the problem.

Currently, the majority of students do not receive any sexual assault awareness education until they reach college. While the education programs at that level are generally informative and assistive in lowering the number of sexual assaults on campus, they completely ignore the population of students who experience sexual assault before they are 18. Students younger than 18, in most cases, know about sexual assault, but do not know tools to combat this problem. Thus, they may suffer both before and during college. In addition, adding sexual assault awareness education in K-12 curriculum would allow students to be better prepared and comfortable on

It is important that all means of assault are well defined. Ideally, a middle school health class should cover this material. This may seem early to expose children to the realities of assault but it is necessary, as according to the article: “men who rape tend to start young, in high school or the first couple years of college.” Additionally, this may help young children who are the victims of sexual assault identify their experiences and seek

One of the main issues that comes with sexual assault is the what constitutes as consent, because so many people view what qualifies as consent differently. Consent is when the word yes comes out of your partner’s mouth. (whether it be a hook-up or your partner). A study was done and it showed that 47% of those who took the poll believe that if someone takes off their clothes they are consenting to have sex (Weiss). That is not consent. Consent is receiving a verbal yes, not a moan, or a head nod, wearing certain clothes, or even drunk flirting. Thankfully colleges and universities have started having classes and presentations that go over consent among other things related to sexual assault at either orientation or they are courses the

It is not reasonable or effective to attempt to stop all forms of sexual assault with one plan. A plan that would most beneficial in preventing sexual assault is to educate teens and adults about the consequences of participating in sexual assault. Consequences include suffering the punishment of the law but also the emotional damage associated with it. Specific forms of sexual assault that should be focused on the most are rape and molesting. All forms of sexual assault are serious and should be focused on, but these are particularly important because they often affect the victim severely emotionally and physically. Some components of my plan include educational programs that can be presented in schools and support programs for people who

Many male toddlers aren’t taught that raping a person is not only immoral but also that they have to respect a woman’s choice. Researchers and sociologists believe that when men and women are more aware and educated of rape, there would be less instances of sexual assault in colleges and universities. There are many instances of rape going unreported simply due to young women who are involved do not perceive the incident as rape until they realize it later. Students perception revealed that many young people do not have accurate images of what sexual assault is. As of recently, Time Magazine posts that California’s new law requires colleges to give consent before sex. This bill was introduced by Senator Kevin de Leon during the early summer of 2015. This bill also gives additional protection to students and sexual assault victims, including on-campus advocates for victims, and also educational programs for incoming college freshman. There are many ways to bring awareness of sexual assault and rape culture. One way is to teach children the language of consent. Other ways to raise awareness is to allow teachers to exercise the education of consent. A rape victim once said “Not enough people understand what rape is, and, until they do … , not enough will be done to stop

Women, girls, men, and boys are vulnerable victims of sexual assaults every day in our country. While females experience much higher rates of sexual assaults than males. The problem that this country faces is the lack of being able to track rapist, in addition to the victims that chose not to report their assault of being raped to the police. Issues of under reporting comes from the victims with multiple reasons that hinders them from reporting these heinous criminal acts. Thus, the sad realization is that the perpetrator is usually some one that you know, that you would of never of thought that they could and would, and do sexually assault you.

Rape prosecutions are argued by the state, not just the victim (Friedman 1). Since rape is such a traumatic experience, there can be long-lasting psychological effects such as, feeling of intense shame, fear, rage, strong distrust of men or be unable to have normal sexual relationships. This can also lead to body hatred, eating disorders, low self-esteem, depression, high rates of teen pregnancy, unhealthy sexual development in girl children, which can lead to cognitive performance, and this can last for years (Gale 2). “Really! Are you that stupid? What were you thinking? You should have known better,” her dad told her over the phone when she called to tell him what had happened. When asked if he wanted to go to the police station with her he said, “No. I do not want to be