Rape

... spent helping to bring this Note to its full potential. Finally, thank you to my family for their unwavering support. Introduction "People who think that women are partly responsible for rape, are themselves responsible for abetting rapes. They are looking for a reason to avoid punishing rapists. And there by [sic] mak[e] it safer for rapists to commit such crimes." "Victim blaming ... same time, if a party is not recognizable as a perpetrator because he or she fails to conform to the behavior and motivations expected of that role, then there is no recognizable rape. This fixed relation...

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... educated to be dominant, competitive, and aggressive while females are taught to be submissive, cooperative, and docile. These socialization patterns of males and females set the stage for "rape culture" in which the domination of males over females becomes an accepted standard. People who hold more conservative gender role beliefs see the active-passive, dominant-submissive nature of sexual ... relationships as the norm. Research confirms that individuals who engage in sexually aggressive behavior, particularly rape, show increased support in the belief and attitudes of gender roles in ...

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... sexual wants and desires of the victim and the perpetrator. I will discuss how theories like this take blame away from the perpetrator, why certain rape victims are looked upon with more empathy than others, and the consequences of that. First, let us examine the miscommunication hypothesis. The first ... to be revealing or promiscuous (Gillen, 103). These studies show society's quickness to either place a certain amount of blame on the victim of rape, or, almost as detrimental, place significantly less blame on the rapist based on the context of the act, whether they knew the perpetrato...

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... women, playing bridge, reading magazines and talking about each other. One of the women named Chrissy, whose reading a magazine comes across an article about rape and it becomes the discussion for the week. In the story the women reveal to the readers more about themselves than the narrator, Estelle, tells us ... She believes that there was no way for her to avoid the problem. That's why she cooperates with her rapist. Chrissy believes that where the rape takes place is important and that being a non-resistant victim is the best way not to get hurt. I don't think that Chrissy realizes t...

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... , boy or girl. There are studies everywhere about different cases. They can occur in well known, supposedly safe places or in deserted and isolated places. Rape is not just a sexual encounter. It is crime motivated by power and manipulation. It is one the most humiliating things that can happen to a person ... effectively interview a victim soon after what may be the most traumatic event of her life. Clearly, officers who feel strong antipathy towards victims of rape, who are unlikely to have community sympathy- prostitutes, for example- are inappropriate candidates. But the needed temper...

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... know what the myths are so we can filter out the nave-ness of the world and hopefully lessen the possibilities of this type of rape. Why is acquaintance rape largely ignored? Well, because society is so gullible about absorbing the myths from birth to adulthood. "On college campuses, when a woman is ... parking lots and expanded hours for escort services--positive safety precautions that have nothing to do with stopping acquaintance rape- (Warshaw, 20). What are some of the other myths about acquaintance rape? One myth would be, "rape is committed by crazed strangers- (Warshaw, 20). It is...

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... she fought back, or whether or not she was drinking. The perpetrator is 100% responsible for his action (73). Many people think the greatest danger of rape comes from a stranger, a woman is much more likely to be raped by someone she knows. Women sometimes takes on the terrible burden of guilt, thinking ... woman is consenting to have sex with a man. Other women feel guilty because they think they didn't fight back hard enough, but the fact is that rape is rape whether or not the victim fought back. There are times when fighting back is a smart thing to do, and other times when it's not...

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... A lot of people would assume this is motivated by a desire for sex, however many feminists see rape as motivated by power. Recently, researchers have been focusing a lot of their attention on rape perception, in which they conduct studies to see whether people blame the victim or perpetrator. Research has shown ... who is described as sober and conservatively dressed.? The article I read focuses on the beliefs about the motivation for rape. There are two explanations for motivation behind rape: the sexual motive and more recent feminist explanations believe it is a power motive. The sexua...

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... people drink without engaging in violent behavior. Clearly, the use or abuse of alcohol does not entirely account for the incidence of sexual assault in our society. Offenders who rape have been diagnosed with a wide variety of psychiatric and personality disorders, most often antisocial personality disorder. Nonetheless, personality testing of rapists has found no significant differences between sexual ... more closely matches the personality profile of men in the general population than any other set of felons. Sexually aggressive offenders are more likely to believe myths about rape a...

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... she fought back, or whether or not she was drinking. The perpetrator is 100% responsible for his action (73). Many people think the greatest danger of rape comes from a stranger, a woman is much more likely to be raped by someone she knows. Women sometimes takes on the terrible burden of guilt, thinking ... woman is consenting to have sex with a man. Other women feel guilty because they think they didn't fight back hard enough, but the fact is that rape is rape whether or not the victim fought back. There are times when fighting back is a smart thing to do, and other times when it's not...

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