Prison violence (Inmate Rape) We all know that our prisons are the final point for the socially rejected criminals and violent transgressors. We know that our prisons are so overcrowded that the Supreme Court of California issued a court order to reduce the number of inmates. We know that since there are more inmates in prison the chance of getting rehabilitated are very slim to none. And we also know that the ratio of supervision of guard to inmate is extremely high. But do we know what goes
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According to the law statutory rape refers to having sexual relation with someone under the “age of consent.” People under the age of consent cannot legally agree to have sex‚ so having sex with them breaks the law. In most to all of the states they age of consent is usually 17‚ the rest is 18. However‚ if the couple are three years within each other and not younger than the age 14‚ then that wouldn’t be considered to be statutory rape. These laws were set into place to protect young people based
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Running head: Keeping Rape Victims Anonymous. In rape trials‚ the names of victims should not be released to the public. Rape victims have been through more than they deserve to begin with. There is no reason their names need to be released to the public. Rape is a different type of crime‚ it leaves the victim with emotions and feeling I cannot even begin to describe. If the victim of a rape decides to go public with their name that is their decision‚ but it should be left up to them. I
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The history of rape is a long one‚ filled with horrible instances and medieval beliefs that continue to the modern day. Rape and sexual assault were -and sometimes still are- seen as a normal practice in underdeveloped or war-torn countries. The rape of female civilians was a normal practice for years throughout many wars around the world‚ as well as during colonization or conquest of new lands. The native people in the Americas were targeted profusely during the “discovery” of the “new world”‚ and
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Are you a white male from a good family? If so then you could potentially get away with raping someone. Rape is too common now and white privileged men seem to be able to get away with it. However to some rape is just another miniature crime‚ but to myself and others it is so much more as people’s lives are being ruined by these gruesome acts. Recently an atrocious young boy who is not worthy of being called a man named Brock Turner made the headlines. He is one of the many white young men who got
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Afritzoule Marital Rape 15th October‚ 2013 Marital Rape Marital rape is a neglected topic. Until recently‚ spousal exemption licensed rape in marriage. The spousal exemption saw the birth of the rape immunity law. This law fueled marital rape by allowing men to perceive women as the possessions and passive objects of their husband’s desires. The spousal exemption was an extension of the historic dominance of men over women. The law gave male power over wives institutional legitimacy. As a result
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descriptive language to get this powerful message across. Jordan uses diction to emphasize harsh circumstances that women face everyday and animosity towards the little political action against rape. Jordan speaks about rape in France‚ and how the law states‚ “if the guy penetrates but does not ejaculate then he did not rape me.” This is a excuse for offenders that makes women feel helpless because they can not go to the police if a man did not ejaculate. The police will question what the woman was wearing
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the idea of rape from a Symbolic Interactionalist perspective‚ we can trace it back to the longstanding idea and norm that women are often seen as “property” of the man who they are with. For example‚ when women take the last name of their husband when married‚ which is still often done in modern society‚ it is almost as if she is losing her own identity and taking on his. When we label women as this‚ as property or just extensions of men‚ we can understand why some men don’t see rape with in a relationship
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Date rape drug From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Date rape drug refers to any drug that can be used to assist in the commission of a sexual assault (date rape). The term originated in journalism and has no strict scientific or legal definition‚ because a wide variety of drugs can be used to incapacitate a person‚ and all of them have sometimes been taken willingly by people in other situations. Drugs used to facilitate rape may have sedative‚ hypnotic‚ dissociative‚ and/or amnesiac effects
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Acquaintance rape is considered a hidden crime because there is a myth that when a women gets raped she deserved it. But in fact‚ every 4/5 rapes are committed by someone known to the victim. 82% of sexual assaults that are committed have been by a non-stranger. 47% of rapists are also a friend or an acquaintance. ("The Offenders | RAINN | Rape‚ Abuse and Incest National Network." ) Acquaintance rape includes‚ all date rapes and marital rapes‚ intra- family rapes‚ including between classmates‚ co-workers
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