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General Sexual Assaults on College Campus General Information Crime is defined by the United States law as an action that goes against a set of laws and is punished according to these laws, while violence is the unlawful exercise of physical force and against the victims will. Sexual assault is an action that is against someone’s will and United States passed laws to protect victims of sexual assault (Roberts 1995:88). The second-wave feminist movement, exposing how this type of crime was poorly…
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Sexual Abuse “I liked hurting girls” (anonymous 1) is the opening line in Diary of an Oxygen Thief by an unknown writer. In the book he thoroughly recites how he abused women sexually and almost is high off doing so. According to the National Sexual Violence Center, one in every five women will be sexually violated in their lives, a statistic that is alarmingly high. With numbers of victims as high as one fifth of people being sexually abused, more efforts should be executed in order to decrease…
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dealing with date rape and date violence. These two components of injury make a huge impact on the student’s safety on campus. Date rape is considered to be a sexual assault by a boyfriend or someone with whom the victim has a dating relationship, is a type of acquaintance rape. It doesn’t necessarily have to be a male victimizing a female, it can also be a female attacking a male, male attacking a male, or a female attacking a female. In the general population, 1 in 6 women experience rape or attempted…
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Sexual and domestic violence is a difficult topic for any individual to discuss, especially if they have experienced it. Throughout the media, this is a subject matter that is rarely talked about with positive affiliations of how to prevent these types of situations from occurring and how to receive help if it did happen. However, these things are only mentioned after the media has gotten ahold of an individual’s story. Instead, it is a subject matter that is mainly discussed with negative associations…
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Just Say NO Colleges all over suffer from many tragedies or even hard times, but one thing many colleges don't like to think about or talk about is sexual assault. Sexual assault happens all over, but it is real and happens on college campuses just as much as it does anywhere else. On average, 321,500 people are victims of sexual assault and rape every year. The ages vary from 12 years old and up. Younger adults from age 12 to age 34 are at higher risk than someone at age 50. Young girls and women…
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Historical Lens This week, I decided to focus on previous cases involving sexual assault, specifically prison rape. I’ve discovered that many acts have been passed related to preventing or dealing with rape, such as the 2003 Safe Prisons Program and the Prison Rape Act. As a result of these, the amount of reported rape cases in prison has improved. However, the issue lies mainly within the execution of the laws, and not the laws themselves. Prison guards have the job of protecting inmates, yet some…
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Sexual assault has always been a big issue on college campuses. Women students are the most affected by rape and have seen their life change after being rape. The impacts of rape on women such as unhappiness, depression, stress, fear and anger have shown that the issue need to be took seriously. Many universities should find a way to reduce or either eradicate sexual assault on campuses. As Joan Cook said a supportive environment should be created to allow women victim of rape to talk about the…
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The perpetuation of rape culture has increased the prevalence of sexual assault in modern society; a culture which paints sexual assault as an almost inevitable picture, colored with the normalization of aggressive sexual behavior and victim-blaming. The installation of rape culture has been a product of a series of steps taken by the media in order to ensure that a man’s sexual urges appear almost too powerful to overcome, mitigating responsibility for unwarranted advances and placing it onto the…
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grow as individuals, and find themselves. Unfortunately that is not the case for many women, 1 in 5 of which will experience sexual assault. Victims don’t always report these attack, sometimes because they aren’t ready to admit it happens, sometimes because colleges are known to be stricter with plagiarists than rapists. In college, sexual assault is too often misviewed as sexual misconduct. It's time for colleges to stop worrying more about their reputation of safety than keeping their student body…
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training entitled Medical/Forensic Aspects of Sexual Assault. It was presented by Shalotta Sharp and Gypsi Ward. In this training we learned how to identify the responsibility of the SANE (Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner) identify the role of the multi-disciplinary approach to sexual assault, as well as identify patient populations affected by sexual violence. The first slide show discussed was entitled Law Enforcement Training. We discussed the culture of rape, the different types of offenders, and paraphilia’s…
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