Against Me!

The first construct that I will need a measure for is the amount of fear of sexual assault that women in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDP) camps experience/feel. The survey measure for this construct should focus primarily on quantifying the amount of fear women feel. This likely takes form in how often a woman thinks about the fear of sexual assault or how often she changes her behaviors to avoid fear of being assaulted. In this measure, I would also like to include some questions…

Women should not be able to play football do to the fact the men are physically stronger and bigger. Women are are not built the same way that men are. Their shoulders are not as broad, their muscles are not as big, and they are all around fragile compared to men. Women do not have the same characteristics that a man does. They are way smaller in many ways. First their shoulder are not as broad and as a football player, you really want big strong shoulders to hit people with. Without this…

Martha R. Burt goes in depth with the society's acceptance of "rape myth", and the supposition evidence theories towards women who support feminism. Rape myth which brings up an important topic which leads towards the understanding of how rape victims were to blame towards the violence. Rape myths are to believe that the victim is an assumption of being a bad girl, and having the mindset of "women asking to be raped". Burt's present’s research provided varieties of personal opinions from…

Bullying Bullying at the workplace is real and happening to many nurses in different organizations. Fortunately, many major organizations have brought the issue openly for discussion and interventions. Personal experience in the 90’s demonstrated bullying as part of initiation for new nurses. For a novice nurse, the experience must be endured to be accepted in the team. As a result, many nurses felt disheartened, burned out and those who have overcome the bullying sometimes, continued the…

When the movements experienced violent backlash from government forces, the female protesters were in the greatest danger of all the participants. The abuses of female protesters had taken on very different forms than those of their male counterparts. Harassment and brutalization by the police, the mukhabarat, or secret police, and the army often had sexual connotations for women. Egyptian female protesters were subjected to strip-searches, in which pictures were taken while they were undressed.…

Treatment methods are the primary communication used when children have experienced domestic abuse. Different treatment methods can prevent adolescents from being anti-social with other kids, their parents, and anyone they have connections with. Usually most kids benefit from the treatment methods that are provided to them and others tend to stay in the same environment with little changes in their external behaviors and internal problems they are facing such as feeling unloved, depressed, and…

is one of violence. Mulla argues and achieves the argument that having a medico-legal approach to the forensic investigation can lead to what sexual assault victims refer to as “secondary rape.” This “secondary rape” alludes to the nurses racing against time to collect and preserve the evidence and transcribe the victim’s narrative according to the requirements of the state. On the other hand, with all the pain and emotions the victim must endure to collect the evidence, the medico-legal…

Miller lists the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAW) and the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), as the two well-respected surveys. The NCVS is conducted by the U.S Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics. The NCVS surveys forty-five thousand households, age…

labeled as a “slippage”. According to an article by Richard O. Lempert, police departments that have changed their arrest policies in response to Sherman and Berk’s domestic violence experiment has caused more harm than good. Lempert makes the argument against the publication of the Minneapolis experiment is that it should have awaited replication from other departments due to the fact that there may have been extensive variations across jurisdictions. This…

as giving the cases priority, and by then it was too late. In one of the testimonies provided by a domestically abused family, they claimed that “‘They didn’t take it seriously until something happened in public… not taking it seriously until he hit me in a club in the middle of everybody… It was no different to what we experienced behind a closed door… ” Although this woman did not become one of the many fatalities that result from domestic abuse, she speaks for all those who have been brushed…