This represents around 473,000 adults being victims of sexual offences (around 404,000 females and 72,000 males) on average per year. These experiences span the full spectrum of sexual offences, ranging from the most serious offences of rape and sexual assault to other sexual offences like indecent exposure and unwanted touching. "(Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2009/2010/2011/2012) Sexual assault is a personal and destructive crime. The effects on individual can be psychological, emotional, or physical. They can be brief in duration or last a long time.
One of every eight Hollywood movies has a theme of rape. By the time the average American reaches the age of 18, he or she will have viewed 250,000 acts of violence, including 40,000 murders on television. Mystery writers can count on making a good living by exploring the theme that almost anyone can be driven to kill. The reach of these violent images has been greatly extended by the proliferation of electronic communications—the Internet, DVDs, even cell phones, to which the young seem addicted. What about the good people among us?
It is a very dangerous way of drinking that can lead to serious problems and even death. v) In 2010 the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reported that 26% of youth aged 12 to 20 years drink alcohol and 17% reported binge drinking. vi) In 2011, the Monitoring the Future Survey reported that 33% of 8th graders and 70% of 12th graders had tried alcohol, and 13% of 8th graders and 40% of 12th graders drank during the past month. vii) In general, the risk of youth experiencing these problems is greater for those who binge drink than for those who do not binge drink. 3) It is true that alcohol has a number of reactions on people who consume it, but again the effects of alcohol are completely different when it comes to the gender.
Online computer exploration opens the world up for children, broadening their horizons and exposing them to different cultures and ways of life, but they can be exposed to dangers as they explore the Information Highway. “Today, more than 25 million children in the United States, or 40% of children two to seventeen years old, are using the Internet” (McAfee 1). A study conducted by the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center found that almost “20 percent of children who regularly use the Internet reported receiving unwanted sexual solicitations on-line.” When you think about the fact that nearly half of American children now have online access and that teenagers spend an average of eight hours online each week, 20 percent is a disturbing
This is strongly seen in the increased perception of the rise of school violence, when in fact, school violence peaked around 1993 (6 years before Columbine) and has been steadily falling ever since (Eller, Violence and Culture). Much of this can be attributed to the effect of the media (to be addressed more later on); violence has pervaded our culture and become almost background noise. At any one time, 3 out of the most watched 5 television shows are crime-related (Eller). Americans have an unusual fascination with crime unparalleled in other cultures. All of these factors combined creates a strong unease with those around us and causes people to keep their distance from those even in regular close proximity to
80% of young adults who were abused as children have reported cases of anxiety, eating disorders, depression, and suicide attempts among others. In Idaho, there are more than 638 victims of child abuse who seek refugee from the community-based organizations (Rix 74). The data shows that almost 5-15% of boys 15-20% of girls are sexually abused in a calendar year. Rix (127) observed that in 2012, more than 2062 cases of sexual assault were reported to the relevant authorities in the state of Idaho where more than 30% of these cases involved
The more violent acts that individuals see on television the more death and crime rates go up in the United States. It shows that most long-term exposure to acts of violence is the major cause of homicides assaults and other acts of violence in the country. Nine out of ten child programs have acts of violence in them before children will have reach the age 16 they will have witnessed 200,000 acts of violence and 33,000 murders. The violence can be decreased by teaching our children early on that violence is not the key we should not have to censor what we
In 1991, children 12 years old and under committed 35 murders and nearly 5000 aggravated assaults. Six of the murders and more than 1000 of the assaults were by children under the age of 10. ( ) Now you may think those numbers aren’t very significant but what if it happened to your child or in your neighborhood. You would want to know that something was being done about
The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 needs to be amended once again if we are to keep our children safe in these perilous times. A recent study has shown that the majority of child sexual crimes are committed by relatives and/or friends (Steinbock). Knowing these criminals are in our communities does not deter them from committing this heinous crime against children. According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, there are 603,000 registered sex offenders in the U.S. and another100, 000 sexual offenders are noncompliant, and many are simply missing. “One in five girls and one in ten boys will be sexually victimized in some way before they reach the age of 18.
And compared with nondrinkers, a greater proportion of frequent binge drinkers (nearly 1 million high school students nationwide) engaged in other risky behaviors in the past 30 days (Grunbaum et al., 2004), including carrying a gun, using marijuana, using cocaine, and having sex with six or more partners. In addition, these youth were more likely than abstainers to earn grades that are mostly D’s or F’s in school (15 percent vs. 5 percent), or be injured in a suicide attempt (Biglan et al. 2004). Underage drinking can result in a range of short-term and long-term consequences, such as academic problems, social problems, physical problems such as hangovers, unwanted, unintended, and unprotected sexual activity, sexual assault, memory problems, increased risk for suicide and homicide, alcohol related car crashes and other unintentional injuries, death from alcohol poisoning, and alterations in brain development that may have consequences reaching far beyond adolescence (Barrouillet, 2002). Alcohol is by far the leading contributor to injury death, the main cause of death for people under the age of 21 (NHTSA, 2003).