Essays on Rape

Before this class, I understood rape culture, as media normalizing sexual aggression in film, music, shows, etc. After this class, I learned it is much more than just media, it is all of society making sexual violence okay to do. To be honest, my peers and I are guilty of using rape culture language when it came to video games and competition between one another. When my friends and I played videos games, one of us was usually the best player. Often times, we would use the word, “damn, you just raped

In modern day society, rape is considered one of the most heinous and dark crimes one can commit. With almost 66% of high school students that graduate high school end up enrolling at universities and colleges (Norris, 2014), one would assume that these institutions of higher education would be upheld with the highest sense of security and peace of mind to an incoming student and their parents/guardians. The sad truth is that it is not. Most of these well established and branded institutions will

Tiffany Rodriguez Professor Hall-Lee Contemporary Social Problems 8 February 2017 Reaction Paper #1 - Rape on College Campuses In the past year, cases of sexual assault and debate over the definition of consent has been a major topic of discussion in the media. A large amount of these situations are occurring in colleges across the country. Courthouses and the public do not know how to resolve this epidemic or even how to fairly punish those who are guilty of this assault. Even our current president

For my second resource I picked “Rape and Sexual Assault: A renewed call to action”, from the website The White House, a report prepared by the White House Council on Women and Girls and the Office of the Vice President, analyzes the most recent data the government have about rape and sexual assault on not only women but men as well. The report was created to “identify those most at risk of being victims of these crimes, examines the cost of the violence (both to survivors and our communities), and

marital rape consent is contrary to the consent that is interpreted and applied areas of law. The law does not allow a person to consent to serious bodily injury inflicted by another. The law only gives implied consent to injuries arising out of situation involving a potential harm, if for instance a particular situation was voluntarily entered the laws does not imply consent to the malicious infliction of serious injury. A woman for example gives consent when she agrees to the act of rape comes in

American society 1 out of 3 women deal the issue of rape and are facing double-standards surrounding victim blaming. In contrast to men, women are often blamed for being in the wrong locations, being in the wrong type of clothing and around alcohol or drugs. Experts might say that the trend of blaming victimized women for crimes committed against them represents the overall issues of hatred towards the female gender in the United States. The crime of rape has been denied in our society throughout the many

Due to the recent influx on research into the sociological effects of rape culture and the psychological post-traumatic effects of rape, research on the utilization of rape in genocide has become increasingly popular among academics of all disciplines. Unfortunately, little research has been done on how genocidaires, who were once regular civilians of a state, electively join in the execution of mass violence through committing rape and murder. Modern sociologists and psychologists have yet to define

Present day, every state is entitled to their own statute of limitations on rape and sexual assault. 34 States currently have a statutes of limitations on rape/sexual assault. Some of these states have a statute of limitations but there is a DNA exemption rule, ruling that if a DNA match is made later than the statute then that case will be exempt from the statute of limitations. Only 16 states have no statute of limitations for rape and sexual assault (Filipovic, 2016, p .A23). The Bill Cosby case is

who commit a sexual offence while 90% are women who are the victims to above-mentioned assault (Brennan & Taylor-Butts, 2008: 10). Moreover, most of the sexual assaults go unreported, but the ones that do get reported, less than half of them get a conviction. If only 10 % of sexual assaults are reported, from that 10%, only 1 in 4 get convicted for their crimes (Butt, 2013). A study done in Winnipeg in the mid-1970s showed that more than 70% of charges were filtered out of the criminal justice system

Today marital rape is considered a crime, whereas in history, it was acceptable for the husband to have nonconsensual sex with his wife. Wives were once known to be their husbands’ possession, giving the husband ownership of her body which in turn gives him the right to have sex with them without her permission. The law back in history once said, a man cannot rape his wife, because when they get married, the marriage gives the husband consent to sexual intercourse. It was said rape only happens by