Rape Work Summary

The book Rape Work by Yancey Martin, is about three different organizations on how they handle rape victims. These organizations, legal law enforcement, hospitals ad rape crisis centers, all have similar and different ways the workers there treat rape victims. There are also some consequences from some of the treatments the victims get by these organizations. At the end of the book, Martin mentions some of her ideas of ways to treat rape victims more effectively and more humanely. All of these organizations focus on the idea of rape. Each organization have frames that the workers have to follow when it comes to victims of rape or any other situations. “Frames are cognitive schemata through which individuals interpret and give meaning to concrete …show more content…
Rape crisis centers are different from mainstream organizations by being populated mostly by women. They operate with minimal budgets because of the size of the center. They are origin in the anti-rape movement and focus on the victims’ emotional state. They do RCC’s mobilize unobtrusively, which is nonviolent and non-confrontational activism. By mobilizing, they see first-hand the bad actions and polices to the public. they don’t have a problem to accuse mainstream organizations of a second assaulting victims. Second assault is brutalizing verbally the victim while trying to see if their story about being rape is true. It was mentioned in the book, “We take responsibility for them” (Martin 107). The workers at the RCC goes with the victim to the hospitals to get examine and go with them to see their lawyer to make sure they are treated as a victim and not as a witness. They take really good care of the rape victim and support them …show more content…
For the social change, more people need to educated about rape to make people care more about it to prevent it. Everyone including policy makers, politicians, teachers, minister and many others to learn more about rape. Rape crisis centers must share what they know about rape to others as well. For the institutional change, on the legal side, more justice for the rape victims. Taking rape as a real crime and put their focus on it like any other crimes. For the medical side, owning rape and treating rape patients as real patients. Yancey had said, “To move forward, many organizations, communities and individuals must take ownership of rape, viewing rape as a social problem that can be remedied” (216). Even on campus here at University of Mississippi, there should be at least SANE programs at our health center. This could be good for students who don’t have transportation to go the hospital off campus. More signs around the campus and not just in the restrooms about