Spousal rape

Spousal Rape: Should Husbands Be Sentenced More Severely? “Her friends used to tell her it wasn’t rape, IF the man was her husband. She didn’t say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces” (Batacan). When we hear the word rape, many times we believe that the act was carried out by someone who is a stranger or has no relation to the victim. However, out of all the rape cases reported between the years of 2005-2010, 34% of them are committed by an intimate partner (Langton, Planty, and Krebs 4). Rape is a heinous crime frowned upon in many countries. Spousal rape is illegal in all 50 states of America and few other countries. Husbands who are convicted of such crime are usually given a lesser sentence but should…

The Current State of Spousal Rape A driver’s license permits one to drive a car, a fishing license allows one to fish in certain bodies of water, and a real estate license authorizes an individual to represent a buyer or seller in the exchange of real estate property. In general, having a license gives the holder certain additional privileges that may have been punishable had the license not been obtained. Yet, this is not always the case, as evident in the results of the 1983 case of People v.…

Illustration: This case deals with a married couple in which the husband, Travis Timmerman, is charged with attempted rape, forcible sexual abuse, and assault against his wife. 
 Facts: Mrs. Timmerman was sexually abused, assaulted and was almost raped by her husband, Travis Timmerman. At the time of the crime, Mrs Timmerman filled out a witness statement in which she reported her husband being abusive. Also, at the hospital, Mrs Timmerman filled a Sexual Assault Nurse Examination. Mr. Timmerman…

Canadian rape laws have been extremely problematic in the past; they reflected the fact that the criminal justice system was more concerned with the victim’s credibility than with the perpetrator’s innocence or guilt. One’s husband or wife could not be accused of rape, as they were protected under spousal immunity. The victim’s sexual history was often examined and used to, in essence, blame them for the crimes committed against them and strip them of their dignity in court. Bill C-127 was…

Rape culture has been a plague for the population. This is no revelation. The stigmas surrounding female victims of assault, both sexual and domestic, are damaging to the functioning of society. There are a few proponents that keep violence against women alive, the backbone being that this cancer is taught to each generation from a small age and cultivated throughout the years as underlyingly acceptable. The roots stem deeply into the stigmatization of the victim, the over-sexualization of young…

disturbing that must have been for women. In 1976 spousal rape could not be prosecuted in any state (Schmalleger pg. 258). By the year 1993 marital rape was illegal in all 50 states. In the case of People v. Liberta, 64 NY 2d 152 - NY: Court of Appeals 1984, Judge Sol Wachtler made a statement saying, "a marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity. A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried…

Abortion has been a key issue for many years, before the 1960’s, abortions were rarely permitted. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court made decisions that fundamentally changed abortion policy. In the case of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the Court passed that the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution, which allow all people “life, liberty and property,” did not include the life of the unborn fetus (DiNitto, 2011). Next, women’s rights movement was geared toward marital rape. In 1976,…

Love is an essential part of life; people both crave love and can’t live without. It is sad that sex and intimacy is crucial when it comes to love and there are horrific acts such as rape forever scaring people who have to endure it. The psychological and physical pain is unimaginable. There is an average of 240 rapes per day and 32,000 pregnancies each year reported from victims. The human capacity of love and physical intimacy can in some cases become so corrupt as to produce it’s opposite…

Within the last few years, many societies are becoming increasingly aware of what qualifies as abuse and its effects on the victim. Domestic violence and physical abuse has long been accepted as wrong by the general population, but such abuses as sexual and emotional have stayed in a grey area until recently. Societal outrage at unsatisfactory sentences on rape and sexual assault cases, mental health being treated as the real disease it is, and understanding that men can be victims just as…

I. Introduction Marital rape is a common and serious social issue, which, according to Martin, et al. (2007), occurs in 10% to 14% of all married American women. Juris scholars and the criminal justice system have paid relatively minimal attention to marital rape in the USA although this kind of violence against women is prevalent in America (Bergen, 2006). The marital rape exemption had been legally acceptable in the United States for a long time; it was at least until the 1970s when…