Victims Of Torture: A Case Study

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.

A victim is a person who has been hurt or taken advantage of. In the story, Angela Vicario is the biggest victim out of all the characters, because she was forced to get married to someone who she did not love and created a lie for losing her virginity before getting married.

Lacopino, Vincent, Allen Keller, and Deborah Oksenberg. “Why Torture Must Not Be Sanctioned by the United States.” US National Library of Medicine. PubMed, May 2002. Web. 10 Apr. 2012. (-- removed HTML --) .

       These 3 victims were shaped as victims by society because of where/ how they were raised in their area and they were in the event. For example, the characters Mayella and Ruby are in two different stories but are both shaped as victims by society. Mayella Ewell lives in the margins with her family

Interrogational torture is one of the many tough ethical questions that people debate about in the United States. Is it right or is it wrong? Many believe that the United States does not practice intense interrogational acts such as torture. Many people have fought to abolish any form of torture while many fight to keep some forms of it to help keep the peace. Whether you believe in it or not, torture is and will always be an ethical dilemma that comes up.

Also, “Feminist researchers have criticised the above approaches, suggesting that examining victims’ behaviour for its role in the perpetration of a crime may constitute blaming the victim, thereby holding them responsible for their plight.” (Spalek, B 2006). Feminist would also criticize the way in which the positivist approach uses victim perception to address rape victims. They would argue that this leads to victim blaming and lack of trust within the criminal justice system, this could then results in secondary victimisation.

In “The Torture Myth”, the author, Anne Applebaum successfully uses logos by including quotes from various sources to support her main claim. Her main claim is the following: “Perhaps it's reassuring to tell ourselves tales about the new forms of "toughness" we need, or to talk about the special rules we will create to defeat this special enemy. Unfortunately, that toughness is self-deceptive and self-destructive. Ultimately it will be self-defeating as well.”(Applebaum) Throughout the piece, she provides several expert testimonies to enforce her claim. The situation of this writing is to clarify what society thinks the effectiveness of torture is compared to the reality. The target audience of this piece is educated people that read the Washington Post, but more specifically law enforcement personnel and or agencies that can possibly use this information in the field. The purpose of this article is to inform society about the misconceptions regarding torture. Although people think that torture is an effective method, because of Applebaum's successful use of logos, diction, and repetition, it is understood that torture is ultimately self-defeating and self-destructive.

Victim advocates are professionals trained to support victims of crime. Victims service providers offer victims information, emotional support, and help them find resources and fill out any necessary paperwork. Due to the diverse responsibilities of victim advocates, the National Victim Assistance Standard Consortium (NVASC) was formed to develop professional standards for the field that would serve the best interest of victims and provide consistent, high-quality services and support.

The characters victimized eventually gain power over the situation they were in by changing the situation in a way that helps themselves and teaches others right from wrong. Here are three facts that prove this statement. First, at the beginning of the story Thank You, Ma'am, Ms. Jones is carrying a big purse and walks at night down the street after her job. Then a boy named Roger tries to steal the purse but loses his balance and falls on the street. Seeing this “The large woman simply turned around and kicked him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter” (Hughes 72).

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.

A victim is the person that majority of people look at for information, even if the victim may be at fault for the problem in the first place. The story behind this quote is that Angela has a previous lover she wants to protect, but with Bayardo, she wants to seem like a virgin again. "She recounted how her friends had instructed her to get her husband drunk in bed until he passed out, to feign more embarrassment than she really felt so he'd turn out, to give herself a drastic douche of alum water to fake virginity. (Marquez 90)" This quote tells how Angela was planning to fake virginity. Angela attempting to fake virginity to protect the man she loves is the same as lying to the twins about who it was who stole her virginity in the first

In addition, all discussions boards agree that the media makes victims looks vulnerable, weak, defenseless, and in need of compassion and sympathy (Greer, p.22)

Villains are angry and do not care about the impact their actions have on others. A victim is a vulnerable person who has been taking advantage of or has had a crime committed against them. A victim is person who has been wronged. Victims are typically powerless and can be hurt physically, emotionally, or financially. In addition, Serval critics argue that Bigger is more of a villain than a victim, despite his hardships.

Reading through chapter 6 over the theories and views that have been towards female victims over the period of years I still see the female victims are still in silence, covering, hiding, in fear and invisible. There are attempts, regulations, and studies put into place as the years go on who see these women and even some who have interacted and tried to help, but from my view and being a women they are