Stranger Rape Research Paper

Did you know that 97 out of 100 rapists go unpunished and walk away free from the consequences of their crime? What is worse is that 75% of the time, 'walking away ' means to the next room or work the next day for most victims due to the fact that 75% of reported rapes are acquaintance rapes or familial assaults. Aside from media interpretation, stranger rapes only make up 25% of reported sexual assaults. The other day on the news there was a report of sexual assault and the reporters were discussing how the police handled the situation and were concerned as to why the police were not on top of these kinds of things and the cops said "there is nothing that we can do about sexual assault unless we know about it, and unless people start reporting it, there is nothing …show more content…
How often do you hear of a family member or local resident being arrested for sexual assault? Sure, you hear talk but, how many times do these people actually face the consequence of their crime? Only three out of every one hundred people that sexually assault somebody will spend time in jail. The reason that this issue goes mostly unreported is that because as stated before, 75% of rape is acquaintance or familial; therefore, women and children, the physically weaker group of people, are either bullied into keeping the atrocities hidden, they are ashamed that a family member or friend would take advantage of and do that to them, they fear 'betraying ' a family member or friend and setting forth on a journey that most likely destines the rapist to time in prison, or they misinterpret the act with something acceptable, deserved, or confuse it with the affection of a male