Female victims

Female victimization is a phenomenon where female experiences threatened or direct violence, abuse, stalking, etc as a result of someone else, at much higher rates than men. According to the Bureau of Justice, the difference in male and female intimate partner victimization rates is significant at the 95% confidence level for overall violent crime, robbery, and simple assault (Catalano, Smith, Snyder, Rand 2009). To describe trends in female victimization, researchers and statisticians decide whether

Denov, Myriam S. 2004. "The Long-Term Effects of Child Sexual Abuse by Female Perpetrators: A Qualitative Study of Male and Female Victims." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 19(10):1137-1156 The research that is done in this article is exploratory. The researchers are exploring the long term effect of child sexual abuse by female perpetrators. “This qualitative study explores the experience and long-term impact of sexual abuse by women.” (Denov 1137) This is an exploratory study

Victims Compensation Recovering from being a victim of any crime, specifically sexual abuse, can bring more than physical and emotional suffering, to one’s life. Each state offers a crime victims compensation program as a means for financial assistance with any costs for the victims’ services, such as, medical care, counseling, law enforcement resources, and loss of quality of life. (White House Council, 2014). These programs have a maximum that will be paid for each claim, but that varies by states

Victimization of the Female Dancer in “Battle Royal” In Ralph Ellison’s “Battle Royal”, two different victims of the prominent white men are portrayed: the greater known victim of the African American boys and the lesser female dancer. Both of these victim groups are relevant to the story, however one gets more recognition than the other. In the story, Ellison identifies racism and bigotry exerted by the white men onto the African American boys in a fist fight and electric rug scene. Before the physical

Although millions of innocent females fall victim to the despicable realm of sex trafficking, only a negligible percentage is recovered. Sex trafficking occurs when individuals are forced to perform sexual acts without reimbursement; traffickers beat, torture, and emotionally abuse their victims into obedience. Traffickers use cunning methods to both hide their operations and force their victims into a life of submission. In a perfect world, human trafficking would be easily obliterated. However

Victim Blaming Victim blaming can be defined as a devaluing act where the victim of the said crime is blamed and held partially responsible for the outcome committed against them (Ben-David, Schneider, 2005). As displayed throughout this paper, from historical times to present day there still manages to be the idea that the victim plays some kind of role in their sexual assault taking place. In 1980 an important study was done that is still relevant today. Brown’s study showed the predictive validity

The victim services professional I interviewed was Rene Carter, victim/witness assistant with the Cumberland County’s District Attorney’s Office. The criminal justice agent I interviewed was Detective M. Wooten, with the Fayetteville Police Department. Detective Wooten is a detective and has worked in different divisions of investigation to include property unit, person’s unit, robbery unit, and aggravated assault unit. Each person was asked the same question and the following are the answers

shown that the violence is not limited to males against females only as 11% of males and 8.8% females have reported a violent incident (Herrman, 2009). Although teen dating violence does not discriminate as to who is a victim or perpetrator, it is believed to occur more often in minorities and lower socioeconomic classes. These people are also less likely to receive personal or professional help due to the stigmas of being labeled as victims. Despite that, there are outreach programs that school can

In some incidents some of the sexual harassment incidents are under reported because some of the victims are being threatened. Victims are too afraid to come forward. Moreover, in a school environment students are pressed in doing a favor to their teacher against their will in order to manipulate their grades. Female workers are asked to do favors in return to advance with their career. Discriminatory acts are often cause by men in powerful positions,

of political, academic, and public debate. In particular, the media today is more focused on victims than it has ever been before. Through media representations of the ‘ideal victim’, this essay will subsequently show how the media are able to construct and re-affirm pre-existing traditional ideologies within the public realm. In effect, this assignment will critically assess the concept of an ‘ideal victim’ and show how the media have used this when describing crime. In reference to the media’s