Consent is a communicated willingness to participate in an action such as sexual activity.
It must be expressed by words or by clear actions. The keyword here is “clear” therefore consent must not be silent or impaired.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. In 1992, the Campus
Sexual Assault Victims Bill of Rights required that all colleges and universities receiving federal student aid give sexual assault victims basic rights. Meaning, University campuses respond to sexual assault by holding the perpetrator accountable as well as giving the victim the opportunity to file a report and issue a warrant for the perpetrator. Since …show more content…
The new definitions provide a better understanding as to being able to, and how to proceed with a prosecution. With this, punishment for the crime will be sentenced appropriately and a standard of acceptable social behavior will become established.
Two states, Mississippi and Idaho, have not taken the initiative to redefine sexual assault.
These states feel as though they cannot keep up with the changing attitudes toward sexual assault, so they have yet to make changes that will seem to address all types of sexual assault appropriately. As for Mississippi, “... in a state currently grappling with prison overcrowding, lawmakers were wary of passing a law that they said could criminalize accidental touching or bumping. Even proponents of these types of laws acknowledge that if applied inappropriately, they could be used to disproportionately target minorities. They also may stigmatize people who are not lifelong deviants, because in some states, convictions for indecent assault might land a perpetrator on a sex offender registry.” However, the Model Penal Code, which is “the go-to document for lawmakers who are rewriting their criminal laws,” is being revised for the first time after 50 years.
It must be expressed by words or by clear actions. The keyword here is “clear” therefore consent must not be silent or impaired.
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex discrimination in educational programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance. In 1992, the Campus
Sexual Assault Victims Bill of Rights required that all colleges and universities receiving federal student aid give sexual assault victims basic rights. Meaning, University campuses respond to sexual assault by holding the perpetrator accountable as well as giving the victim the opportunity to file a report and issue a warrant for the perpetrator. Since …show more content…
The new definitions provide a better understanding as to being able to, and how to proceed with a prosecution. With this, punishment for the crime will be sentenced appropriately and a standard of acceptable social behavior will become established.
Two states, Mississippi and Idaho, have not taken the initiative to redefine sexual assault.
These states feel as though they cannot keep up with the changing attitudes toward sexual assault, so they have yet to make changes that will seem to address all types of sexual assault appropriately. As for Mississippi, “... in a state currently grappling with prison overcrowding, lawmakers were wary of passing a law that they said could criminalize accidental touching or bumping. Even proponents of these types of laws acknowledge that if applied inappropriately, they could be used to disproportionately target minorities. They also may stigmatize people who are not lifelong deviants, because in some states, convictions for indecent assault might land a perpetrator on a sex offender registry.” However, the Model Penal Code, which is “the go-to document for lawmakers who are rewriting their criminal laws,” is being revised for the first time after 50 years.