Prison rape

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…

#5 The U.S. Constitution assumes that it is protecting all individuals through its legislative, which historically has not been true. The legal system wants equality between both sexes, yet uses the difference between men and women to produce unequal results for the latter. The legal system doesn’t recognize these biological differences and how the law affects men and women in different ways due to their gender. In Christine Littleton’s article titled, “Reconstructing Sexual Equality”(1987),…

Any young woman heading to college is unfortunately aware of the constant sexual assault threat that is posed to her. Rape is unlawful sexual activity and usually sexual intercourse carried out forcibly or under threat of injury against the will of a person who is incapable of valid consent. In the recent years more cases of student athletes committing rape while in college have surfaced. As more news of these cases are brought to light the more nation wide upset they are causing. Sexual assault…

the term “rape culture”. You may have a pre-conceived notion of what you believe rape culture is or looks like. Maybe you think it’s the actual act of rape or that it is a specific group that is creating this culture, but what exactly is rape culture? Merriam-Webster defines culture as, “The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.” This means that it is a set of learned behaviors perpetrated by a whole society. The next part of this phrase is rape which…

assault, I was told that rape is like a football game. The administrator asked me if, looking back, there was anything I would have done differently." This is a quote by Annie E. Clark, who was featured in the documentary, the Hunting Ground. However shocking it is that a college student was asked what she would have done differently when she reported her rape, this is not a rare incident. All across the nation, women are being raped and sexual assaulted, yet according to the Rape, Abuse, and…

With these safety precautions how are rapes on campuses still a national problem? College is a breeding ground for parties and drinking which can put hundreds of strangers into one place. That alone is cause for problems but when 62% of women know their rapist they feel safe right up until the incident (Press, 2014). Though alcohol is a leading factor of sexual assaults being intoxicated cannot and will not justify rape (O'Connor & Kingkade, 2016). Beth Howard (Howard, 2015) states…

no one should ever know, but if a person digs hard enough they will find it. Rather it is a baby farmer who is rumored to have killed over 400 children, a man who decided to control women and bending them to his own sadistic desires, or a woman who rapes, mutilates, and kills girls with her husband. Not all the skeletons in Britain’s closet are as well known as Jack the Ripper but they are just as cruel and unusual serial killers, such as Amelia Dryer and the couple Fred and Rose West . Amelia…

In the last decade rape has become a growing issue. There have been many cases in the national news and that have gone viral on social media. Multiple ideas and solutions have tried to decrease the number of sexual assaults that happens all over the world; such as learning self-defense, never being alone at night, and not wearing revealing clothes etc. All these concepts share one key aspect; they are to help women. According to the rape crisis center every two minutes someone is sexually…

Rational Choice Theory generally is not compared with violent crimes. In the case of rape I feel that Rational Choice Theory is the best theory to explain why people do it. The UCLA Women’s Law Journal says that “The United States has the world’s second highest rate of reported rape. About sixteen to eighteen percent of American women and one to three percent of American men have experienced an attempted or completed rape” (Rhode). It is hard to believe that someone who thinks rationally could…

treatment. The provision to what qualifies as sexually violent may differ from state to state, but in general, they are crimes of a sexual nature that belong to a specific constellation of crimes. These crimes include sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. These acts often result in harming not just the victim but their families, their community, and broader society. Some of these sexually violent crimes are so heinous and dangerous…