...The Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed to help victims in prison dealing with getting abused. This law works on local, federal, and state prison systems. Rape in prisons unfortunately happens a lot because inmates will be locked up for a long time with no desires fulfilled. Being in confinement without being able to have connection with anyone will drive people insane causing them to act irrationally. I believe the law passed will help examine why rapes happens and when they get chances to act on urges. Getting all of this information will help prison guards plan and have a better watch for such scenarios happening. We can examine trends to try and make it harder for inmates to continue rape. More staffing in areas rape has occurred can...
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...Justice for Rape Survivors, an “At Risk Population” and Ways of Advocating for Them Emily R. Cazier North Idaho College Social Work 240 Kateri Ray Abstract This paper defines the “at risk population” of rape survivors in the United States. Sources for this paper were found through peer-reviewed academic papers and articles, websites for organizations that advocate for victims of sexual assault and rape, and legislative bills from the state of Idaho. This paper also seeks to define the social justice issues, legal and political issues, and advocation for these victims on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of society. Keywords: rape, rape victims, and advocating Social Justice for Rape Survivors, an “At Risk Population” and Ways of Advocating for Them Definition of the “at risk population”: The definition of rape and survivors of rape varies around the world and especially differs from state to state within the United States of America. In the advocacy community, victims of sexual assault are generally referred to as survivors because they have survived a horrible event. (Cazier, 2013) For the purpose of this paper and in keeping with that belief, I will also refer to these individuals as survivors. According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network) the general definition of rape in the United States is, “forced sexual intercourse, including vaginal, anal, or oral penetration. Penetration may be by a body part or object.” In order for the term rape is apply...
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...American Intercontinental University Individual Project 1 Abstract Victims of crimes come in all ages, race, nationality, and sex. Studying the victims is important to determine why they were chosen, and how they were affected. Civil rights have come a long way in the past century, and continue to get better. Child rights groups continue to fight and win wrongful rulings in, so the kids can someday redeem themselves. First of all let’s take a look at what victimology is shall we. Victimology is defined as “the study of crime victims and the psychological effects on being a victim.” (Dictionary, 2013) Let’s take a look at why victimology is so important know a days. Here are some startling numbers from 2010. “The city of Detroit, Michigan literally looks like a war zone and violent crime is thriving. So far this year in Detroit, car thefts are up 83%, robberies are up 50%, burglaries are up 20% and property destruction is up 42%. Lawmakers in Illinois say that violence has become so rampant in Chicago that the National Guard needs to be sent in. In just one night last week seven people were killed and 18 were wounded – mostly by gunfire. In fact, there have already been 113 murders in Chicago this year. There are approximately 12 million crimes committed in the United States every single year. That is by far the worst in the world. No other nation has more than about 6 million reported crimes per year.” (Michael, 2010) With these types of numbers, there...
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...TOPIC SUBJECT HEADINGS For use in Online Catalog (OPAC) SUBJECT HEADINGS For Sample Database Searches Abortion Abortion; Pro-Choice Movement; Pro-Life Movement Abortion Acid rain SEE ALSO Pollution Acid Rain Acid Rain Adoption (interracial, unmarried persons, gays) Adoption; Gay parents; Interracial adoption Adoption AIDS AIDS (Disease); AIDS (Disease) in children AIDS (Disease); Pediatric AIDS (Disease) Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease Alzheimer's disease Animal rights Animal experimentation; Animal rights Animal experimentation; Animal rights Anorexia and Bulimia SEE Eating disorders Athletes and drugs Doping in Sports Drugs and Athletes Banking Bailout (2008) Bailout Battered women SEE ALSO Wife Abuse Abused women Conjugal abuse Birth control Birth control; Contraception Birth control; Contraception Black Reparations Movement Reparations; Slavery--Law and legislation Reparations Body language Body language; Gesture; Nonverbal communication Nonverbal communication Bullying Bullying Bullying; Cyberbullying Business ethics Business ethics; Corporations - Corrupt practices Business ethics; Business enterprises, Corrupt practices Capital punishment (Death Penalty) Capital punishment; Death row Capital punishment Cancer Cancer--Prevention SEE ALSO types of cancer, such asBreast--Cancer Neoplasms--Prevention and Control;Cancer Treatment Censorship SEE ALSO Freedom of the Press Censorship; Prohibited...
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...False Rape Accusations, Societal Impacts, and Legal Solutions Rape, time and time again, have been reported throughout documented human history. From the rape of Lucretius, to the ‘rape’ of Sabine women+ it is not difficult to understand why stringent regulations have been made in regard to prevent the crime. In certain countries, it is even punishable by death. *As a crime against a person, rape brings about horrifying long-term effects to the victim, usually followed by lingering sentiments of guilt and shame. To discuss the notion of falsification might be callous in face of such an atrocious crime, yet to deny the existence of it would be a logical fallacy. Compassion and justice are companions, not choices (1); therefore, we are compelled to analyze and gather information. By doing so, we are not being callous ourselves; instead, we are trying to devise constructive strategies to bring about impartiality and justice. Of the many debates surrounding the crime of rape, many more arise regarding false accusations. In regard to the rape scandals surrounding business leaders in recent years, most notably Dominique Strauss Kahn, this paper aims to address the issue of false rape accusations. More often than not, false rape allegations are portrayed by media outlets as unfounded rape, which is usually not the case. Unfounded rapes represent the circumstances which undermine efforts to arrest or to convict the perpetrator. False rape allegations, however, solely refer to...
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...The video, Portraits of Human Sexuality: Nonconsensual Sexuality takes a look into firsthand accounts of a rape victim, someone accused of rape, and how offenders are treated after incarceration. The first person interviewed was a woman named Molly; she was victimized when she was 17 years old and she is now a prosecutor for sex crimes. Molly was a victim of stranger rape by a man who snuck into her parents’ house and held her at knife point. She makes a strong point in saying that rape is not just a crime of violence, but it is also a crime of sex; the two are closely linked. This is related to chapter 11, Sexual Assault Reforms. Within the chapter it is stated that only “real rape,” or rape that involves force, weapons, injury or gangs are taken seriously (TAARA 16,159-1). Molly’s offender was convicted of 6 rapes and is serving a sentence of 200 years in prison....
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...Timothy Cole was a student at texas tech when Michele Jean Murray was raped by Jerry Wayne Johnson after parking her car in a church parking lot across from her dormitory, she described the attacker as; a young African-American man with bug-eyes, less than six feet tall. Timothy fit all these descriptions and was picked out of a police lineup. In court he was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, he died twenty-two years into his sentence. Be for the crime Tim was just another young man going Texas tech, like all of them he had a past and bright future. His past was one of honor, for he was a twenty-four year old army veteran. His future was going to be lit by a major in political science....
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...discuss a victim of a sexual assault who did not report the act to her local police department immediately after it occurred, but has now sought the advice of legal consultation to find out her rights and if she could sue the offender for damages or pursue criminal prosecution as a result of the attack. Just in case the victim was afraid to report the assault she needs to know the Rape Shield Law expressly rule out the use of evidence of a victim's past sexual history to weaken that victim's credibility. This law is intended to protect victims from invasions of their privacy, and to encourage them to come forward without having to fear that their sexual history being used against them to hinder their case in any possible way [ (LaMance, 2011) ]. Being a Victim of a Sexual Assault After researching the issue of rape and victims’ rights it appears this will be a hard case to prove in both the civil and criminal courts systems. The accusation of rape usually comes down to he said, she said testimonies and because of that rape is a very sensitive subject to be addressed [ (Hill, 2012) ]. Rape is an assault that is so easily committed and often the term is misused and abused by people who want to get back at a spouse or lover. Some people even engage in consensual sex and when things don’t turn out the way they like they claim to be raped. These kinds of situations make it hard for people who have really been the victim of an actual sexual assault. To pursue a civil...
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...Study Guide Criminology Social structure theory- a theory that explains crime by reference to some aspect of the social fabric. Broken window thesis- a perspective on crime causation that holds that physical deterioration in an area leads to increased concerns for personal safety among area residents and to higher crime rates in that area. Crime mapping- hot spots (where the crime is) Walter Miller found that trouble is a dominant feature of lower class culture. (True) Violence more expectable in the south Techniques of neutralization- criminal offenders deny responsibility for their behavior. The concept of co-offending refers to the fact that youthful offenders tend to commit crimes in the company of their peers. They found that communities characterized by high rates of delinquency do not necessarily experience exceptionally high rates of crime or of gang related homicides. (True) Although the large majority of people growing up in inner city poverty ridden areas, for example, probably experience an inequitable opportunity structure firsthand, only a relatively small number of those people become criminal. (True) Cloward and Ohlin observed that legitimate opportunities are generally available to individuals born into middle class culture, participants in lower class subcultures are often denied access to them. African Americans are disproportionately represented in the homicide statistics as both victims and offenders. Nonprimary homicides involve victims and...
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...with his cousin Michael. Michael was a Vietnam veteran who enjoyed killing and raping the Vietnamese women for his entertainment. Michael showed him photographs of himself raping a Vietnamese woman. The last picture was the same rape victims severed head, held by Michael in his hand. Later Michael taught him how to hold and shoot a gun. One day, Michael got in a fight with his girlfriend and he ended up killing her. Richard saw the whole thing and Michael was sent to jail for seven years. Ramirez's criminal record began in 1977, when he was placed in juvenile detention for a string of petty crimes. He also received a probationary sentence in 1982 for marijuana possession. He soon moved to San Francisco, California, and then to Los Angeles, progressing to cocaine addiction and burglary, and cultivating an interest in weapons and Satanism. While in California his criminal record became increasing by time, from being a rapist person to killing people he sometimes didn’t even know. Theft turned to violence in 1984. Ramirez's first known murder took place on June 28, 1984; his victim was 79-year-old Jennie Vincow, who was viciously sexually assaulted, stabbed and murdered during a burglary in her own home. What followed was a spree of brutal murders, rapes and robberies, leaving more than 25 victims in its wake. Ramirez's second known killing occurred nearly nine months after his first. On March 17, 1985, he attacked Angela Barrios, who managed to escape...
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...On April 8, 1986 in Lake Elsinore, CA a female store cashier was raped and robbed at gunpoint in the shoe store she worked in. When the criminal raped her, they wiped their semen onto her sweater. This particular sweater played a big part in the investigation process and was taken as evidence towards Herman Atkins’ conviction. The victim went in for vaginal swab testing and turned over her sweater to the investigators. The victim did not identify that Atkins was her rapist until she saw a wanted poster of him for unrelated charges. A witness that worked at a store nearby said they had seen Atkins in the victim’s store earlier that day and after testing the semen, they found Atkins’ blood type and PGM matched the semen on the victim’s sweater....
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...| Facing Both Sides of the Problem: Rehabilitating the Rapist | | | Tamara S. RogersLiberty University PACO 625 B01 Healthy SexualityDr. John Thomas | 01/292015 | | Part I: Focus of Case Study Rape is such a heinous crime that lingers in the psyche of the victim long after the physical evidence is gone that it is no wondering why much attention is focused on the healing and resilience of the victim. The most attention the offender receives in a mug shot in the media and news of their court date, verdict, and sentencing aired. This is only facing half of this world wide atrocity. This case study will focus on a male that has been convicted of the rape felony and the counseling approach used to hopefully help him identify the causes of his behavior and transform his way of thinking, coping, and behavior towards the opposite sex so that he can move forward in life as a positive, well-functioning citizen. The history of Ned. Ned is a 20 year old college student of the University of Georgia. He was born to a single mother who was an alcoholic prostitute and an unknown father. Often times, Ned was left alone to fend for himself. Beginning at 13, though he lived in poverty Ned was referred to by his teachers as intellectually gifted and a star athlete by coaches. Being a handsome young man, when money became scarce, his mother began to sell him to the highest female bidder. Ned was forced to commit lewd sexually acts for women patrons; some being...
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...Criminal law Name: Institution: An assault is the act of unlawfully attacking people verbally by abusing or threatening them or forcing them to do things against their will. Assault does not involve contact. Examples of assaults are, threatening to kill or take by word of mouth, through a text or mail or pointing a gun, a knife or any other dangerous object to someone to show the strength of the message. It is sometimes difficult to pursue a case against someone who has abused another verbally, since the terms could meant for protective purposes. Sexual assault involves contact. This is when a person is forced, against her will, to have sex with another person. It is only fair to get a refraining order for a person who has committed assault so that when the persons violate it by hurting the people he threatened, charges of assault and battery are on him (Husak, 2007). Battery, on the other hand, involves contact. This is the unlawful torturing of a person by physically abusing them. The injury must be evident for it to be battery. For example, presence of a burn, a cut or a bullet wound that shows that the battery took place. Unintentional damage to someone is not battery. However, there are instances where battery is justified. If you hurt someone while defending yourself, you will only need enough evidence and proof for the rulings to favor you. In defending...
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...murder, is rape (Byers 47). As defined in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary rape is unlawful sexual intercourse carried out by force. Despite rape being an abominable crime more than half of all victims do not report their rape to authority (Byers 47). Of those victims who do report ninety percent are women (“Scope of”). Among those women, one in five are victims of sexual assault in college (Kutner 31). However, colleges are not doing enough to protect their female student body. The Center for Public Integrity has reported that only ten to twenty-five percent of these campus rapist will be expelled from school in fear that the school's reputation would be tarnish...
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...chosen the correct perpetrator- Ronald Cotton. After Ronald is convicted and sent to jail, Jennifer begins to rebuild her life while Ronald’s life begins to fall apart. The story then switches to the point of view of Ronald, who explains his side of the story and emphasizes his innocence. It was not until DNA testing came around that Ronald was able to truly prove his innocence. The overlaying theme of this story is that Jennifer’s eyewitness account was so strong that a jury believed, without a doubt, that Ronald Cotton was the man responsible for the rape of Jennifer Thompson. This certainty was quickly dispelled by DNA testing and brings about the problem of misconceptions. Jennifer thoroughly believed that Ronald was her rapist and this proves how easily it is for people to misidentify features of different races. It also helps to disprove eye witness accounts (Thompson-Cannino & Cotton, 2009, p.1-287). Keywords: rape, conviction, innocence, misidentification The People Behind Picking Cotton Each day something will come about that two people can perceive differently. This differentiation in the perception a person has can be related to a misconception. Most misconceptions come about because of the way a person was taught. Misconceptions are so common that often people do not...
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