Victims, Perpetrators and the Rape Culture

... about the harms of rape and the agency of perpetrators and victims pervades Uberal and radical feminist approaches to rape. This paradigm, which I call the victim/perpetrator framework, incorporates several key assumptions: first, that the rape perpetrator acts freely and deliberately to harm; second, that the rape victim is passive and in no way participates in or contributes to the actions of the perpetrator; and, third, that in every rape, the harm is always traumatizing and directed exclusively from the perpetrator to the victim ... to use a discursive process to arrive at a just an...

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... between the victim and the accused is not sufficient to imply consent. The problem is society is still, despite the violent nature of acquaintance rape, victim- blaming. "Blaming the victim" seems to be an all too common reaction to acquaintance rape. Excuse me, I was taught no means no, weren't you. So what's the confusion about? Socio-cultural considerations are central to explanations of rape supportive attitudes and sexual assault. American culture influences the ... woman, like many others, was a victim of a drug- induced date rape, a growing problem among young women, and men, hit...

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... sexual or reproductive property. Similarly, in western culture, the female reproductive processes is described in many problematic terms. For example, medical texts view menstruation as a failure, by describing it in negative terms such as debris, dying and wasteful (Martin, 1991:486). The egg and the sperm are also described in stereotypical feminine and masculine traits (Bonvillian et al. 2013:42). ... al. 2013:62). Violence against women is an extremely problematic issue in Papua New Guinea, as there is a high incidence of sexual assault and rape (Lepani 2008:150). In a study conducte...

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... we think of crime, we usually think of interpersonal violence such as rape, assault, murder, or property crimes, such as burglary, theft, and robbery. However, this image of crime is too narrow, because there are other categories of crime. For example, some illegal acts produce no victims, since the victims themselves are the perpetrators of the crime, for example illegal gambling. Crime can also be categorized according to ... learned. Through differential association others argued that Sutherland's theory was acultural deviance? theory as a way of showing that it made wrong presumptio...

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... Television Violence Study; a three-year research project funded by the National Cable Television Association issued in 1996. The study involved efforts from media scholars from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill among other schools. The study found that violence is often presented in ways that could harm viewers. Perpetrators go unpunished in 73% of all violent scenes. This ... formed to reduce the depiction of violence on television and in other mass media. Dr. Radecki, NCTV's chairman, found that at one Catholic high school he spoke at, 75% of the student body has seen Fr...

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... their victim! s(feminsit.com). That in turn led to the feeling of success and achievement as they took control of the victims" life. Drugs allow rapists to the victim. Sexual Violence states that rape has been used as a form of violence ever since the founding of Rome. Many armies used rape against the enemy to tear their culture, heritage, and ethnicity apart. Rape was used as a political form of torture (50). ... male violence against women is a fact of life. Society has learned to shun the victim and turn her into a nonperson. So, Jackson says, "instead there is interminable babble a...

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... ), Brazil (Thomas 1994), India (Bush 1992), the Virgin Islands (Morrow 1994) and many other parts of the world developed strategies to protect women from violence in the home through shelters, support groups for victims, and criminalization of battering. The need for intervention was widely recognized in the nations of the global South as well as the North (eg., Ofei-Aboagye 1994). During this ... made clear that states are obliged to eliminate violence perpetrated by public authorities and by private persons (Cook 1994: 165). The doctrine asserts state responsibility for failures to pr...

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... from cases of forced pornography, to stripping, and to commercial sex ("Resources and Publications"). Victims of sex slavery are repeatedly raped, brutalized, and even tortured to the extent where they lose all hope in regaining a sense of humanity. This is what perpetrators aim for, as they only use their victims for the purpose of gaining high amounts of profit, which ... can generate up to $250,000 per victim of the sex trade in a year (Carr). The demand for sex trafficking fuels the greed, selfishness, and cruelty of traffickers, who view human beings as power- ... into rape culture...

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... we think of crime, we usually think of interpersonal violence such as rape, assault, murder, or property crimes, such as burglary, theft, and robbery. However, this image of crime is too narrow, because there are other categories of crime. For example, some illegal acts produce no victims, since the victims themselves are the perpetrators of the crime, for example illegal gambling. Crime can also be categorized according to ... learned. Through differential association others argued that Sutherland's theory was a cultural deviance theory as a way of showing that it made wrong presumptio...

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