Victims Rights Movement

The MTC rape typology is very useful to help understand the different types of rape. There are 9 types of rapist. Types 1 and 2 rapists are called The Opportunistic Rapist. The opportunistic rapist engages in sexual assault simply because the opportunity to rape presents itself. Also, opportunistic rapist may occur within some antisocial act like robbery. Type 3 rapist is called the pervasively angry rapist. The pervasively angry rapist tis a demonstrates a predominance of global and undifferentiated anger that pervades all areas of the offender’s life. That includes when a men attacks a women, his behavior show a example of total absence of sexual arousal. Types 4 and 5 the sexually motivated, sadistic rapists. Sexually motivation rapist

The three methods by which crime is measured are the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), and self-reporting. While all prove to be a great way to measure crime, there are some limitations to each. For UCR, its limitations are probability, the possibility of someone witnessing the crime, or it being reported. This limitation proves that some crimes may be more underreported than others. For NCVS, it does not report some juvenile victimization. For example, anyone 12 or under will not be part of this survey. It does not gather information on certain important kinds of juvenile victimizations, such as the nonforcible sex offenses of statutory rape and incest. For Self-Report, its limitations

Throughout the years, many obstacles have happened that has affected and impacted our world. One of the most civil liberties movements of recent times has been The Victims Rights Movement. The Victims Rights Movement has strengthened the criminal justice system by improving the treatment of all the victims in all types of aspects.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) was intended to Supplement the Uniform Crime Reports Program (UCR) therefore, there are several parallels between them. For instance, both programs have different procedures to collect statistics however, they are both determining outcomes of the same types of serious offences such as, aggravated assault, rape, robbery and motor vehicle theft. Both the NCVS and the UCR define these crimes the same with the exception of rape. The UCR only collects information of rape of woman whereas the NCVS collects statistics of both rape of woman and of men.

This essay aims to answer the question “can psychology satisfactorily explain sexual violence?” However, as this is such a broad area of research, it will focus on domestic rape and sexual violence.

My own opinions on the existing state of victim’s rights in America today is that though it has been more of a priority these last couple years, it is not nearly as important as it should be. Offenders get rights defensive them even after committing horrible crimes, but victims are left out more or less. There are too many occurrences where the victim’s voice is not heard at all, whether it is their own choice or the decision of the court. Now is the time for victims to be given the courage to speak out and help the court and the world understand that the victim’s voice can be the last nail in the defendant’s trial coffin. As the article "Crime Victims' Rights: From Illusion to Reality," states "the Maryland Court of Appeals refused to order

The reason for report writing is to know the amount of crimes being committed in a city, state, or town. Another reason is to know the actual race, age, and gender of those individuals. Crime reports come from different sources. One of the primary sources is The Uniform Crime Reports (UCR). The UCR is one of the longest running data sources of crime in the United States. It shows the counts of crimes committed whether it be personal or property based. These reports are collected within all 50 states. It is a helpful way for officers from any city and state to trade information in hopes to prevent future crimes. Due to not all crimes being reported the only downfall to the UCR is that it only knows of those crimes that are reported. Another source is the National Crime Victimization Survey (NVCS). The NVCS unlike the UCR focuses more on the victims. It is also a way of having the non-reported crimes get reported. The NVCS focuses on those individuals that

households. In 2012, for the second consecutive year, violent and property crime rates increased for U.S. resident’s age 12 or older, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). The overall violent crime rate (which includes rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault) rose from 22.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2011 to 26.1 in 2012. The problem is that the majority of crime (approximately half of violent crimes and 40 percent of property crimes) are not reported to law enforcement agencies. Crimes are not reported because victims see the event as a personal matter (a fight between friends or family members) or a theft that the victim considers minor or the victim’s belief that law enforcement cannot resolve the issue (a theft where the likelihood of getting property back or resulting in the arrest of the offender is unlikely). To deal with the crime reporting issue, the Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, under the US Department of Justice created the National Crime Survey. The National Crime Survey collects data from households and individuals (similar to the Census Bureau) to get a picture of total

Correspondingly, victimization surveys utilize specialized software, which not only expands use of this surveying technique but improve quality for analyzing local crime. Self-reporting crimes are the best survey for measuring crime that does not have recognized victims. Similarly, self-reporting surveys is significant for providing data regarding discrete crimes such as shoplifting, which can also be associated with drugs abuse. According to Maxfield & Babbie (2017), local surveys are advantageous and efficient in that they can be conducted by the local government, community organizations, police department and other researchers. Besides, local crime surveys constitute valuable tool for citizens, public officials and many communities. UCR, SHR, NCVS provide the best counts for crime or murder cases especially if the victim was doing business or had commercial establishment. Information from NCVS, an acknowledged national survey, is highly reliable because it contains information regarding assaults as well as the information that has not been reported to the police (Maxfield & Babbie, 2017).

“683,000 adult American women are forcibly raped each year. This equals 56,916 per month; 1,871 per day; 78 per hour; and 1.3 per minute” (Listen | facts about rape). When a woman is raped, she loses a part of herself that she can never get back; she loses her innocence, her integrity, and her sense of security. Many overwhelming mental illnesses haunt the

Groth also noted to other types of rapists: anger rapists and power rapists. These types might sound alike, but they are actually very different. An “anger” rapist will do anything they can to make a victim feel powerless, humiliated, and worthless. They will make sure to be as brutal and violent as they can be when striking them down, tearing their clothes, and sexually violating them with little to no mercy. On the other hand, “power” rapists want to act out a sexual fantasy where the victim would first reject the rapist but later find themselves enjoying the rape. Power rapists are among the most common rapists in America. This type of rape stems from low self-confidence, creating the need to feel adequate in a world where they may be having problems, such as financially, psychologically, or even just problems fitting in with their peers (Groth, p 44-45).

When people think about crime, they often try to side with either the victim or the perpetrator. In some crimes, victims are often blamed for the perpetrator’s actions. In these cases myths begin to develop and victims are labelled as the wrongdoers. A crime in specific in which there are many myths and stigmas associated to victims is rape. Many people believe that with rape the victims always attract rapist by the way they dress and behave. These factors are always incorrect because rape is a sexually violent act done to gain control and power over a victim.

“Sexual urge”...”lust”...”desire”...”force” (Emma, 2012) – these are all words used by real life sexual offenders to describe their accounts and what motivated them to commit such crimes. Relative terms such as rape culture have become increasingly relevant to one of the most discussed issues in contemporary society. However, a majority of the discussion centres around the impact on the victims, as well as the injustice of their behaviour. Little of the discussion looks at what goes on through the minds of these types of offenders. In this essay, I will attempt to unpack a number of theories that discuss the roots of the occurrence of rape. This will be evaluated in conjunction with the criminological theory of seductions of crime, as well as the conflict theory. In addition to this, I will scrutinise these theories and its flaws. I will also be using the example of a real life convicted rapist to show his version of how someone could become a sex offender. Furthermore, an analysis on different character traits of sex offenders will follow this, as well as an investigation on rape culture in order to develop a more informed understanding on sexual offending.

The National Crime Victimization Survey collects data through victim surveys. The collected data differs from the data collected by the UCR and NIBRS, as it includes both reported and unreported crimes, counts each offense separately in crimes with multiple offenses, and includes details about the crime, victim, and the victimizations as a result of the crime. The data collected differs from the data collected by the UCR in that it does not collect data on homicides, kidnappings, victimless crimes, commercial crimes, and

A movement must have five components which includes people, cohesion, a mission, advocacy, and a political/social agenda. There were five antecedent movements to the Victims’ Movement beginning with the Civil Rights Movement from 1963-1972. The Civil Rights Movement’s focus was equality between black and white Americans and this mission highly impacted the later victims’ movement as it fought for equality to rights and services of the both the offender and victim. Next, the Anti-War Movement, which took place from 1970 to the present time, focused on protesting that the government can force young men to serve in a war they do not believe in through the draft. This influenced the Victims’ Movement through displaying that the people have a right to protest and question the government and their actions. The third movement was the Women’s or Feminist Movement, which took place from 1967 to 1972, concentrated on the right for women to receive equal pay for equal work, as equivalent to men. The Victims’ Movement’s focus was influenced by this mission for equality in pay through fighting for equal funds in services, such as lawyers, therapy, and compensation for the victim and the offender. The Law and Order Movement, which started in 1968, questioned if it was right of not to increase the discipline imposed by law enforcement which effected the Victims’ Movement through wanting a balance of rights for victims and offenders. The final movement that influenced the Victims’