The Rape Kits Should Not Be Tested

Dealing With Rape Kit Backlogs What if someone was the victim of a horrible crime and the evidence was never tested? The victim would never be able to know who committed the deed and there would be no evidence to convict the perpetrator. Would not the victim feel paranoid, knowing that the criminal was still out there and able to strike again at any time? This situation is the life that a rape victim faces if his or her rape kit is not tested. But victims do not have to live this way if laboratories

Brettin Linder Miss Windish English II 2 October 2017 Is Rape Serious? Imagine a young women going to a party and having a good time; yes, she may be drinking a little too much, but she’s just trying to have fun. She sees one of her classmates, a boy who’s in a couple of her classes, and he makes his way over to her. They start to dance and have fun, when all of a sudden he pulls her into one of the bathrooms in the house. She keeps telling him no, that she doesn’t want to do this, but he’s not

Unfortunately, this despicable crime happens all too often. In fact, an annual number of 321,500 men and women of the United States experience rape and sexual assault, as reported by RAINN. Despite this alarmingly high statistic, the number of reported rapes is equally concerning. Of 1,000 sexual assaults, only 310 were brought to the authorities. Because of this, many victims suffer with the memories of the trauma. Not only is this detrimental to

Lack of Rape Kits on College Campuses A Senior Project Research Paper Presented to the Faculty of Waiakea High School In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Senior Project Shania M. Rapoza Public Services Academy Capstone Mr. Joel Wagner-Wright August 23, 2016 Shania Rapoza Joel Wagner-Wright PSA Capstone 23 August 2016 Words: 1273 Lack of Rape Kits on College Campuses “What is the point of having a national DNA database, if the rapist 's DNA is never entered into it?” (“Pattern

STDs and undocumented rapes in the communities; whereas, legalizing prostitution would not legalize trafficking. The criminalization of sex work should be abolished. Prostitutes are tested often and monitored to “prevent the spread of STDs” (Liberator 2006). The vast majority of sex workers do not engage in sexual activity with a sexually transmitted disease. To be able to be employed as a sex worker, one must have proof that they do not have STDs. The working women are tested monthly and must provide

would look for in possible candidates running for political office. This contemplation was then accompanied with the dilemma of the treatment of rape cases around the country. I looked into the many problems associated with the topic and learned quite a few things, many of them considerably unsettling. I initially became engaged in the topic of response to rape cases through the television show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU), which deals with sexual crimes. As a Criminal Justice major, the procedural

of situations create complete fear which is no way a person should have to live. When police come to a domestic violence scenethe scene of domestic violence it is one person's word against another unless the crime has been witnessed. Even though there are laws to help protect the victim, an adaptation of said laws is used in court to allow the accused to walk free. Sexual assault consists of many different things such as rape, sexual battery and sexual harassment. These are just a few of

A very real, and very common, problem in America is rape—more so the lack of knowledge about rape. This causes many problems for victims of sexual assault. In Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, the story of Melinda directly reflects the world today because most kids are not properly educated about rape and many teens in Melinda’s position can’t find a voice to tell their story. Today, many kids don’t know how to deal with the trauma after they were raped because the subject is so taboo that they feel

was no official protocol or way of dealing with sexual crimes, in fact most sexual assault cases never even made it into a court of law. One reason is that the definition of rape was structured in a way that many rapes that occurred were legally deemed not to be rapes due to terminology. The old law was designed to protect rape suspects by requiring victims to present independent evidence and corroboration. These laws were implemented because women were not trusted at the time and the thought of the

Many things need to change for rape and sexual assault to occur less often on college campuses. In order to address specific problems appropriately, campuses need to do a thorough analysis of the crimes that are being reported and not reported on campus, looking for trends in location, time of day, and more. According to a report of the White House Task Force (2014), one way that college campuses can do this is with a campus climate survey to identify the extent of the problem of sexual violence