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    Statement of Assignment You have asked me to write a paper based on the issue of rape kits in America being untested. Some of the questions to be addressed are, could the United States police departments be held liable for the amount of unprosecuted rapists and backlogged rape kits based on a theory of criminal negligence and or a theory of disruption of justice? Police offices across the country should be held liable for the mental stability and self-destructive states of the victims they…

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    Prosecutors. 1. The text discusses the prosecutor’s office at work. From the tape, cite some examples of work issues related in the text. The prosecution office at work was a method used by the prosecution team to highlight certain photos and children’s accounts about alleged sexual abuse at the McMartin preschool to gather more evidence to convince the jury that defendant Ray Buckey was a sexual deviant, and that his family was guilty of similar actions. There are several examples or…

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    should not force them. According to the Rape & Abuse, Incest National Network (RAIN) consent is…

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    CRIMINAL LAW IN FLORIDA: THE IMPORTANCE OF HIRING A CRIMINAL DEFENCE LAWYER Men are born free, yet in every place, they are in chains. The aforementioned statement presupposes the concept of law as a restraining factor on man’s freedom of choice. Criminal acts are violations against the state or public laws. In recent years, Florida’s criminal laws have garnered national attention. One major most deliberated and dissected statute is Florida’s so-called “Stand your Ground” gun law, passed in 2005…

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    Everyone has been saying that our criminal justice system needs to be reformed and yet there hasn’t been much action taken on reform. In order to bring more equality between men and women, there needs to be change in the criminal justice system. The best way to ensure that men and women of all races are treated the same as in the criminal justice system is to not let the defendant in the court. If the judge and jury don’t see, hear or know the name of who they are convicting they won’t…

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    #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),…

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    “She is so cute! You will love playing with her. My house is just over there, come on,” the man said. Seven year old little Megan Kanka eagerly followed the stranger across the street to his home. She was so excited to play with the adorable puppy. But when she arrived there wasn’t one. Her joy and excitement turned into terror, violence and pain. In 1994 this innocent girl from New Jersey was lured across the street into a sex offender’s home where she was brutally raped and murdered by her own…

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    One thing that you can 't complain about with Margaret Atwood 's Rape Fantasies is downtime; there is none to speak of. It hits the ground running, the narrator Estelle opening in media res, quite in the middle of conversation, the subject of which (rape) she initially professes a reluctance to address. Estelle is tired of hearing and seeing things about rape in the media. She doesn 't want to think about it. This introductory tone of reluctance is important because it reveals a conflict…

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    Rodriguez was getting to serious. As a result it made everything difficult for Rodriguez and Prescott as adults. The next day she regretted reporting Rodriguez to the authority’s now he has become a registered sex offender for life and charged with statutory…

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    In the movie Last Tango in Paris, an American widower, played by Marlon Brando, meets a young Parisian women, played by Maria Schneider, and they engage in a sexual relationship. However, there was one scene involving a rape for the movie that Schneider claimed was unscripted. She spoke out about it to the Daily Mail in 2007. In 2013, the director, Bernardo Bertolucci said, “Maybe, sometimes in the movie, I didn't tell her what was going on because I knew her acting would…

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