The Female Victims Are Invisible

Discussing the nature of the issue, violence against women includes females of all ages, race, and socioeconomic status, who are being violated through acts of physical and sexual violence, as well as psychological abuse. It is not just

This essay will discuss the ways in which gender influences patterns and processes of victimisation, identifying key victimological perspectives and typologies. It will consider key authors in the discipline and offer definitions of terms used. The essay will identify three issues which may impact on gendered victimisation before acknowledging the argument that radical victimology offers a more balanced approach to gendered victimisation than positivist or critical viewpoints.

Firstly, how is law enforcement supposed to prosecute victims if the crimes are never reported? Secondly, the women who don’t report these crimes are only hurting themselves in the long run. There needs to be a campaign to ensure that these crimes are being reported, perhaps by offering a reward to the women who speak up.

The crime is not in what they did do, but rather what they failed to do. Although they had no hand in the abuse, these women are being tried and convicted for failing to notify the police of the abuse that was occurring. Over twenty five states have specific failure-to-protect laws and nineteen others have more general laws by which a parent can be tried for negligence of a child. For one to be liable for failure to protect, the defendant must have a legal duty to protect the child, the defendant must have notice of abuse, the child was exposed to the abuse, and the defendant failed to prevent said abuse (United States vs Webb). These laws in their conception were gender neutral however in their application, are far from it. Research has shown that women are tried far more than men for failing to protect their children and in many cases, the women themselves are being abused (Apell 1997). While women are tried more, they solely perpetuate about 38% of the child abuse in the country (NIS 4). Although those that commit child abuse, are criminals, there is a problem in criminalizing parents that along with their children were victims of

It’s rare for victims of this crime to come out alive or to be found, so that means their stories are never heard. Merely through the small numbers who have been saved were brave enough to talk about their versions. In such movies like Eden or Very Young Girls, it tells you about real life stories of these women and girls being

According to RAINN, “Only 20 percent of female student victims, age 18 through 24, report to law enforcement” (“reporting sex offenses,” n.d.). Cases such as the Turner case make other victims believe theirs no hope within the justice system. Many cases go unreported because victims see that conviction rates are low. The Turner case was no different.

The term is often related with negative meanings of powerlessness, passivity, and some victims could be even perceived as inferiors. It is also important to note that when the word ‘victim’ is gendered, it is biased towards the female sex. Therefore, assumptions that females are passive and weak also coincide with the assumptions of victims. The alternative term ‘survivor’ is sometimes preferred, particularly by feminists, as it places emphasis on their strength and the severity of the experience with crime. In addition, groups may also be victims; usually involving a type of hate crime such as racism or homophobia.

Not many people know that women can murder others, let alone, be serial murderers. What has been perceived generally in our societies is that women are the creation of God who sacrifice for others and care selflessly. It is the males who are seen as the abusers, the ones who murder, kill others for their selfish motives. That is true but not completely. The majority of people who abuse, or kill are males. However, women are also seen as doing these acts so anonymous to their “feminism”. Women also murder, and surprisingly, “they can be even more dangerous than males” (Deborah, 2000). My research paper will prove that women can be murderers and some can be really brutal.

As I read through this book based on real accounts of females who helped during the events on 9/11, I kept a box of tissues at my side. These brave women’s stories touched my heart and brought to life all of the female heroes from that day and the tragedies that they went through. Female authors Mary and Susan truly did open doors of inspiration for women and young girls across the nation who had no idea all of the females that helped on that tragic day in history. This novel is a must-read for those of us who are females wanting to enter the criminal justice system. The bravery and integrity of these women who were so wrongfully neglected after the attacks on 9/11 should inspire females to make a difference in the criminal justice system.

Women, Violence, And Resistance In chapter 54 Women, Violence, And Resistance by Melanie Kaye/ Kantrowitz. You will read about how women are abused. Should women be treated with violence such as being raped, beaten, physically and emotional abused? No women small or big should be abused, so when being attacked I believe if the women feels as if she can defend herself she should fight back.

Since 1970, there has been an increasing and alarming rise 138 percent of violent crimes committed by women. Still, while the equivalent percentage compared to male violence is small 15 percent to 85 percent the fact that the numbers have elevated so drastically points to something changing in society.

I want to elaborate further on gender issue from a different approach – rape. Recently, I have heard news about a brutal gang rape in Brazil involving over 30 men raping a 16-year-old girl and some of the rapists even posted videos and pictures on social media after the incident. Despite the severe nature of the event, many people even criticize and blame the girl for what happened. According to them, the victim bore responsibility for being raped because she was getting drunk and wearing a short skirt. Nevertheless, this is a confusing and unacceptable leniency for the perpetrators, along with a cruel, unfair and unethical attitude towards the victim. What is happening, when a girl was raped – who needs to receive sympathy from the society, but the

By reading the criminal Victimization, 2014 article it was a little surprising that there is not a lot of change comparer to what we actually see in the news today. I wasn’t aware that at some point men were more victimized then women. Now a day’s we tent to see more women maybe because we feel the need to share it more freely then men.

Many of the violence against men are not recognized because police and hospitals are only trained to look for violence against women (Cook, 2004). If they see a man with a black eye, they think it's because he was in a fight with another man. In fact, it seems that no one wants to hear about male victims. To the public, they are an embarrassment and threaten the validity of the stereotype that the majority of men are violent and aggressive. Sometimes they are blamed for being the victims or the violence against them is justified in a variety of ways (Flor, 1999). As a culture we prefer to make the male victims the subject of humor and banter, not offer them help.

To begin with, the term ‘womens issues’ only speaks to half the population whereas we need everyone to be paying attention. Even the term gender issues appears to have a funny effect on people. Often when people hear the term ‘gender’ they think it means women. Just like when people hear the term ‘race’ they think of indigenous Australian, torres strait islander asian, latino, african american etc, or when people hear the term ‘sexual orientation’ they think gay, or lesbian. As if white people don’t have a ‘race’ as if heterosexual people don’t have a sexual orientation, as if men don’t have a gender. Always the dominant race goes un accounted for, and that’s part of a dominant group, where there dominance goes unquestioned and they go unexamined, lacking introspection. Even the term commonly used in America, and I have a feeling it will come here to, is instead of perpetrator and ‘victim’ they use, perpetrator and ‘accuser’. I feel that this is very, very bad and a huge step backwards. Because when you hear the term ‘victim’ you sympathetically identify with them but once they are referred to as accuser, it is actually the perpetrator who becomes the victim of her accusing. So this is a recipe for us to side with the perpetrator. Just like all newspaper titles and so on are in the passive voice, ‘violence against women’, but wouldn’t the more accurate term be ‘mens violence against women’, bearing in mind men commit 90 per cent of murders and 98 per cent of sexual assaults I think that it would be a more accurate term. This can also be seen in our cognitive thinking structure. This is the work of feminist Julia Penelope and it shows her there has been a grammatical shift from John beat Mary, to Mary is a battered woman, she is now defined by what was done to her by John but he’s out of the picture. This clearly leads to victim blaming, questions are asked like ‘what was she doing out