Rape In Canada

dependent on the aspect of consent and it is not easy to define. This is especially common in the rape cases involving intimate friends and marriage partners. In the current system, the rape victims are required to prove that they did not consent to the sexual act but this is hard for some rape victims. This is among the main reasons a majority of the victims suffer in silence. The definition of rape in accordance with the reform eliminates the victimization of the victim by avoiding the mention of vaginal penetration and this may downplay the attitude of the women towards rape (Tang,2008). They may feel that most of the actions done against them are not rape while in the real sense they are. This reduces their aggressiveness inn reporting such matters to the police.
The rate of reporting rape cases in Canada Going by the criminal justice records in the country, the number of cases reported concerning any form …show more content…
About 47% of the victims cited that they did not want the involvement of the police in their affairs (Randall, 2010). Out of the victims who did not report the incidences to the police, about 33% claimed that the police would do little to see justice served for them (Gotell, 2008). Only 14% of the victims who failed to report indicated that they feared revenge actions by the perpetrators in case they reported the incidents. The victims feel that reporting the cases to the police will be fruitless because out of every four cases reported, only one leads to a fair conviction. A study in Winnipeg confirmed that in every four women, one of them was a sexual assault victim that mainly constituted rape. A report by the federal bureau of investigation indicated that rape was top among the violent cases that are underreported. The report indicates that only one in every five rape incidences is reported to the