Forcible rape is defined as the carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will. Attempts or assaults to commit rape by force or threat of force are also included. Robbery is defined as the taking or attempting to take anything of value from the care custody, or control of a person or persons by force or violence and/or by putting the victim in fear. Aggravated assault is an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe or aggravated bodily injury”(fbi.gov). Why do people engage in these violent criminal acts?
Date rape is a notorious and uncertain crime. Sexual assault includes any sexual activity carried out against the will of the victim through the use of violence, cruelty, threats even if it did not end in penetration. ( National Crime Victimization Survey 2012) There are many different types of rape. But the kind that is most common among teens is Date Rape. There are many situations and causes that lead to date rape.
Compare and Contrast TWO models of sexual assault and their respective utility for (i) the treatment and management of sex offenders and (ii) assisting the police in criminal investigations. When anyone wants to investigate criminal sexuality from different perspectives such as legal, academic, or simply curiosity-motivated, the multiplicity and variety of the internal part of phenomenon becomes quite clear. Few dimensions of the behaviour inlying the sexual crimes have to be considered to perceive the disequilibrium and complexity of sexual assault (Hazelwood, 2000). Despite the fact that advances were made in recent decades to help understand, detect, and treat sexual offenders, sexual assault still remains a serious topic that still persists in society (Langton & Marshall, 2001). Also, the studies developing models of offences and offenders grouping depending on individual cases have grown over the past couple of years (Trojan & Salfati, 2008).
Hate Crimes against LGBT Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are frequently targeted by state and individuals because their sexual orientation. The violence can be motivated by political, religious, social basis or homophobia. The violence can take the form of lynching, intimidation, mobbing, assault, cyber stalking, bullying and rape. In most democracy countries, legal provisions permitting or decriminalizing homosexuality have been in place since the Second World War. Under these legal issues, violence is qualified as a form of hate crime.
The purpose of today's talk is to start a debate about how we in society view the offence of rape and whether we bring our conscious or subconscious views and stereotypes to our consideration of it. Rape is a serious crime and one in which there have been a number of reports and recommendations over the years looking at how we improve the way in which these cases go through the Criminal Justice System. It is surprising when looking back that it was only in 1991 that the law was clarified to recognize rape could be committed within a marriage. Before then a husband could rape his wife with impunity. It is also not that long ago that we did not have rape specialists either investigating or prosecuting these cases and victim care was awful.
12 2 gender and crime Frances Heidensohn and Marisa Silvestri introduction Men commit crime at higher rates than women, are involved in more serious and violent ofending, and are more prone to recidivism. While this statement has been called ‘one of the few undisputed “facts” of criminology’ (Lauritsen et al. 2009: 362) it was an unconsidered one for much of the subject’s history. hat it is now a central and much debated matter is due largely to the advent of feminist criminology which took this ‘gender gap’ in recorded crime as one of its key themes. Gender is now an established and central topic in criminology and studies of criminal justice (Heidensohn, forthcoming).
In addition to this appalling immediate toll, child abuse is thought to have many harmful long-term consequences” (“James Poterba 1”). Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin are two people that focus on the effect of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent health. They focus on crime because it is one of the most socially costly potential outcomes of maltreatment, and because the proposed mechanisms linking maltreatment and crime are relatively well elucidated in the literature. “The various studies that show that having access to a gun at home increases the propensity to commit a variety of crimes, by about 30 percent among adolescents. Decreases in gun ownership over the 1990s can explain up to a third of the decline in ceime over the same period.
‘Widely publicized school shootings during the late 1990’s and early years of the twenty-first century have raised public concerns about rising adolescent violence and created the perception that juvenile delinquency is increasing.’ Statistics shows that juvenile crime rates are actually declining. In 2001, the total number of juvenile arrests was 2.3 million—a figure 4 percent below the total for 2000 and 20 percent below the 1997 total….. However this is a situation that evolved over the years and has not been dealt with appropriately and it can lead to murder, burglary, suicide, school dropout and a state of depression as well. I strongly agree that juvenile delinquency is most prominent in the secondary educational system and it can hamper the child’s ability to learn and it can also cause a nervous breakdown of the child’s nervous system. The three major factors in the secondary educational system that contribute to juvenile delinquency are single parent families, delinquent peers and the mass media.
Others will say that they can’t explain it, but they know it when they see it. Emilie Buchwald, the author of Transforming a Rape Culture describes rape culture as “a complex set of beliefs that encourage male sexual aggression and supports violence against women.” The people of a rape culture assume that violence is a fact of life when in reality it is not, and is actually the values and attitudes of a society, which are quite possible to change. Rather than teaching that people shouldn’t rape, they try to teach what to do to make it less likely that a rapist will choose you. The Marshall University Women’s Center explains that “Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of women’s bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards women’s rights and safety.” America has objectified sex to the point where it’s more about reaching a goal of obtaining sex than it is about intimacy and emotions. According to Becky Lockwood, the associate director at a center for women, this causes people to see sex as a commodity, making them think it is okay to do whatever they deem necessary to acquire it, even if that means violence.
Oscar Chen Ms. Norton 2. May.2013 Rape Culture Rape culture has greatly influenced society and has caused women to sink in danger situations. Rape is ultimately caused by men’s urge to enjoy the power they can exert over women’s bodies. Rape not only includes sexual assaults but also serve violent and punishment for women. Rape has affected many cultures and women’s life that we cannot imagine.