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“11.2% of all students experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence, or incapacitation(¨Campus¨).” This is an issue at all college campuses and finding a solution to it is difficult. Betsy DeVos feels very strongly about how sexual assaults on college campuses are “...lasting, profound, and lamentable (Svrluga).” She is seeking engagement from the audience and trying to find a way to end this. Her audience is college students and professors. Furthermore, the problem is…

Elimination Commission and the introduction of a zero tolerance policy towards sexual violence in prisons. Before PREA, the head of the American State Correctional Association claimed: “sexual assault in prison is greatly exaggerated.” The zero tolerance policy included having prisoners screened if they were a potential predator or victim, investigations would take place if correctional officers were told about sexual abuse, and whether it be a prisoner or guard committing the act both would be…

in sexual assault cases, but only with the victim’s consent. Even if the victim did choose to get the police involved in his or her case, would the police be able to solve it? Would the attacker be convicted? Research shows that less than three percent of rapists are actually convicted. Attorney Brandt-Young says “the accused student deserves a timely resolution, and these police investigations can literally go on for months or even years.” A study shows that most schools finish their sexual…

The issue of sexual assault has been relatively rampant around the vicinity of Duquesne University and involving Duquesne University students. Why is sexual assault a major problem with all the preventive measures taken by the state to protect these students? Do these victims raise this alarm for the simple reason that the state does not smile on anyone involved in sexual assault? Despite the fact that the state is strict regarding this issue, why is the crime still a major problem in Duquesne…

college sexual assaults are growing at an alarming rate, the changeover is even more distressing. College theoretically is a place to explore passions, and interests in a safe learning environment, but now it has become a landscape filled with fear of sexual assault. According to U.S department of justice one in five college attending women will be victims of campus sexual assault. Although the statistics are stark and startling, certain administrators and media outlets argue that campus…

Media has been a major contributor to disconnect from a person being a human to connecting them to little more than a sexual object. Ivan Raszl asserts that “We are sexual beings. Advertisers use this attribute by trying to associate their products and services with sexy imagery hoping that some of the hotness gets attached to their brand in the consumer 's subconscious mind."(As cited from Barber…

People might think when they hear about an investigation on a criminal case or any type of investigation it might sound quiet easy but it real life is not that easy due to the things you have to follow through to have a successful investigation and find everything you need. By conducting a successful preliminary investigation is what will make the investigation to start processing. Preliminary investigation is what is the most appropriate step to follow when the crime is committed. Everything…

THE MEDIA AND RAPE CULTURE The lines of sexual assault and rape have become blurred through the media. While the drive for sex may come from hormones and other biological factors, the entitlement that male college students have derives from social cues and media representation of masculinity. In her book Fraternity Gang Rape, author Peggy Sandy comments that “those men who object to this kind of behavior run the risk of being labeled as ‘wimps’ or, even worse in their eyes, ‘gays’ or ‘faggots’.…

one which affects future generations to come. An epidemic known as rape culture. Rape culture is a term h in which society blames victims of sexual assaults and normalized male sexual violence (http://www.wavaw.ca/what-is-rape-culture/). According to Marshall University rape culture is defined as "an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the social media and popular culture. Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of…

a type of sexual assault where the assailant forces sexual intercourse on a victim without consent. When a person thinks of rape in the military they may think of the enemy kidnapping soldiers and raping them. But this is not the case, the very soldiers that risks their lives to protect us get raped by a fellow soldiers within the military. Many people lack awareness about this very topic because the victims have fear in reporting it. If people knew about the high rates of sexual assault and…