Children or minors may lack the judgment needed for valid consent. Rape not only causes mental injury, but also physical damages can occur. Some women who are raped may not be able to produce critical items necessary to have children. Goodman states, “rape is wrong because it stands at the extreme limit of a continuum of sexual acts, from the most committed to the least and the most alienating. Rape is exploitative, objectifying, and volatile, but what it violates is not just another’s body, but the other’s personhood, invested, deeply in one’s sexuality” (p.
Victims and Crime Evaluation University of Phoenix Criminal Law CJA 354 Victims and Crime Evaluation Before understanding the concept of a victim, who is a victim? A victim can fall into one of two categories; one a person who has suffered harm because of a criminal act and subjected to harm in suffering physical injury, emotional trauma, financial loss and or disruptlives Secondly, a victim could be family members of a person killed or injured because of a crime may also be victims. It is common for people who witnessed a crime to suffer emotional trauma. According to Vocal (ACT) “These people are victims even though they may not have been physically harmed. This could in some instances include family members or close friends of the person who committed the crime.” (2006, p.1) The impact of such crimes is long lasting in particularly for violent crimes.
Signs that physical abuse may be taking place can be injuries that are consistent with physical abuse, for example, marks on the body that show shapes, like finger tips, or pinch marks, or a person that has other unaccounted for marks to the body. Less noticeable signs could also be unexplained weight changes, depression or behaviour that indicates that the person is afraid of someone. Everyone feels low from time to time, but changes in behaviour, either emotional or physical, that can be seen for prolonged periods of time in the service user may be an indication of this. Sexual abuse: Can include rape and sexual assault, being involved in pornography, participation of acts of a sexual nature that the person has not consented to or is unable to consent to. The physical signs of sexual abuse could be scratches, bruising around the genital area, abdominal pain with no diagnosable cause or an unexplained pregnancy due to rape.
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Emotional/Psychological Abuse can take place in all kinds of relationships from a partner to friendship to a working relationship; it can be very harmful and psychologically damaging to a victim. Some examples of emotional/psychological abuse are a person making their victim feel humiliated, degraded, judging or criticizing a person. Often a victim may not realise their been abused or feel their judgment is wrong or not confident to bring up the issues and the abuse can go unchallenged for long periods of time. Financial abuse Is the abuser stealing a victim’s money it can taking place in many forms such as stealing someone’s bank card or their
Social isolation, poor housing, unemployment and poverty are all linked to mental ill health. So stigma and discrimination can trap people in a cycle of illness. The situation is exacerbated by the media. Media reports often link mental illness with violence, or portray people with mental health problems as dangerous, criminal, evil, or very disabled and unable to live normal, fulfilled lives. 2.2 How mental illness can have an impact on the individual: Psychologically: - person may become paranoid and therefore exclude him or her self -person may become paranoid and therefore hurt others who she/he fears will try to hurt him/her -person may become isolated and therefore out of touch with other people and reality in general -person may feel unloved even if it is not true -person may feel like he/she is a threat to society and therefore attempt suicide emotionally: -person may feel isolated, unloved, paranoid, panicked and non-human (read Francis Kafka's The Metamorphosis)
Secondary victimisation is also sometimes referred to as secondary trauma. Victims of crime rely on the assistance of various institutions and services within the community following the primary trauma or event. The victims of crime often receive negative reactions and are sometimes denied help and this creates a secondary trauma where psychologically and emotionally the victim feels powerless, blamed and made to feel responsible for what has happened to them and this at a time when they are at their most vulnerable, psychologically traumatised and, sometimes, even in physical pain due to
The Unseen Witness: DNA, Rape and Convictions Shamara L. Turner American Public University Abstract Many people believe that the worst part about being a rape or sexual abuse victim is the act of the abuse itself. But many people fail to realize the stigma, stereotype and mental anguish that come along with the title of “rape victim” or “sexually abused victim”. Although the act of being forced against your innermost will to participate in a sexual act with someone you may either not know or someone whom you do not wish to be intimately connected with is something, that to some can be worse than death itself. The issues that arise after the initial act can sometimes be more brutal and invasive than the act of rape or abuse. For this reason many sexual assaults remain unreported or are covered up once they are reported.
Some possibilities for convicted felons for sentencing are fines, monetary sanctions, probation, community service, electronic monitoring, incarceration and the death penalty. One main criticism of restorative justice is that it fails to provide adequate protection for individual rights. Also one offender may end up being treated very differently from another who has committed a similar offence but has a more (or less) demanding victim. There are many good things about restorative justice. The offender may experience how it feels to be the victim perhaps preventing similar behavior again.
According to thefreedictionary.com, the “generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution” is a sex offender. Some people may argue about the punishment offenders receive and think it is not enough. Just throwing them in jail does not fill up justice. These horrible people deserve more punishment then they are given. Maybe perhaps castration would heal the broken hearts of families and children?