...society considered male superiority as being an issue that is accepted by women and obviously other men. The violence of women and young girls done by men should be addressed because they oftentimes result in major consequences. Instead of addressing the issue of the violence done to women and young girls, these violent acts are continuing to be accepted. The violent acts of honor killings, sexual assaults, and prostitution are resulting in the deaths of many women and young girls. The violent acts of honor killings are happening to women and young girls worldwide. Honor killings are the killings of relatives, especially a woman or young girl, who are accused of bringing...
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...sports fields and courts, and in life. Baylor University was rocked with the largest sexual assault scandal in division one sports. This incident began to take shape, after several football players, took part in violent acts against several women. The public started to pay attention to Baylor University once two former football players had received convictions for sexual assault (Mervosh, 2017). These two convictions fueled the public into researching the university and football program as a whole (Mervosh, 2017). This case began in 2015 after Baylor launched an internal investigation (Mervosh, 2017). The main reason an investigation was funded was to see how university’s policies attacked sexual assault incidents (Mervosh, 2017). During this...
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...Samentha Moore is a three time victim of sexual assault. Looking back at her tragic series of sexual assaults, Moore reminisces on her habitual inexorable feelings of “self-conscious and blaming” “About the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline | RAINN”). Moore experienced her first two traumatic assaults before college; she was left vacant, aloof and disconsolated after the police disdainfully responded to her assaults. She experienced her third assault in college, and because of the police’s prior unsatisfactory response, Moore was discouraged to report it and left miserable and unable to desert her pain, loneliness and self-punishing ways. Her agony later developed into an eating disorder; Moore thought maybe if she “made [herself]...
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...“Prosecution Drops Charges in Kobe Bryant Rape Case” Article Summary In the summer of 2003, Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was arrested and accused by a then 19-year-old hotel employee, Katelyn Faber, of sexual assault. Faber accused Bryant of raping her in his hotel room the night he checked in the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera in Eagle County, Colorado. In contrast, Bryant admitted to committing adultery by having sexual contact with Faber, but denied the sexual assault allegation because he believed the sex was consensual. These opposing views between the two parties led to one of the most followed and talked about cases in the past decade. Because of Bryant’s popularity and the degree of the accused crime, this case received massive media attention. In the end though, after a yearlong of drama and debate about the nation’s rape laws, the prosecutors decided to drop the case against Bryant and the article I am reviewing tells us how the case came into that conclusion. To start it off, one of the main reasons the case against Bryant was dropped was because the accuser simply did not have the desire to proceed with the trial. After countless meetings with the accuser, her family, and her lawyers, the District Attorney in the case released the statement, "The victim has informed us, after much of her own labored deliberation, that she does not want to proceed with this trial," "For this reason, and this reason only, the case is being dismissed." I believe that there were...
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...Alcohol related sexual assault continues to reign as one of many issues plaguing colleges and universities, many of which have banned alcohol and overnight guests. Braford Richardson, a graduate of Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in the fields of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and Jon A. Shields, the associate professor of government at Claremont McKenna College claim that in spite of previous efforts to reduce the rates of sexual assault they are actually increasing. Richardson and Shields believe that the current standard for handling sexual assault cases is inefficient and often more traumatic for the victim than the crime itself. Such cases are often handled by a selection of staff and students of the victim’s college who have...
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...Sexual assault is something students often hear on college campuses. It is a quiet whisper among college age students. Girls talk about how they are not going to report it to the school because they do not want to have to deal with the process and what people will say about them. With eighty five schools currently under review by the federal government for how they have handled sexual assault cases in the past, it is something that has come more into light in the past year due to the federal government coming up with the list of schools. Sexual assault is something that is so often a topic that our nation is ashamed about and why is that the case? Guilford College is one of the eighty five schools that is under review by the federal government....
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...vulnerable to sexual assault. By covering the statistics, the researchers hope to prevent further attack. The following paragraphs include a comparison of university size to assault rates, provide specific examples of sexual assault, and inform about the precautions that many colleges choose to take and the precautions that are being taken in order to prevent further mishap. The first case that people were informed about happened in the early 2000’s and it wasn’t until...
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...Introduction As a result of our research on sexual violence, its prevalence, and its impact on our society were able to identify a service gap within our local communities. A core nonprofit agency, ContactLifeline, Inc. specifically targets people affected by sexual violence and crisis. We interviewed people in the community, local educators, students, and key staff from ContactLifeline Inc. to gather professional opinions and opinions of our fellow community members and educators to see how these service gaps may have affected them or may not have. We discovered that ContactLifeline is a nonprofit agency that provides specific services to sexual assault and rape survivors for the entire state of Delaware. ContactLifeline offers many options for survivors to receive multiple kinds of aftercare services, free of charge, but we noticed that their efforts in prevention were not being met on a full scale by our school system in an effective long term manner. We asked what is being done by our local schools to provide and promote education on this specific topic. What is being done to educate our youth on what healthy relationships and sexual behaviors are so that most importantly we see a decrease in victims and are not spending so much time and money on aftercare? This needs assessment addresses this service gap in depth and provides a possible policy change within our local school districts and potentially a state wide adaption of a sexual education program that includes a curriculum...
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...specific who were often victims of sexual assault. This law has had its ups and down, for instance,...
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...even more innovative and resourceful in coming up with ways to minimize the risk of participant identification where possible. Kamala, a second year psychology graduate student, is conducting a study that revolves around the bystander experience of sexual assault on campus. Kamala anticipates that some of her participants are involved in the recent cases of sexual assault on campus, and look forward to them sharing stories from their experience in the interview. However, a case like this, involves ethical consideration, challenges (to both the interviewer and the interviewee) and potential solutions. In terms of ethical consideration, sexual assault contains sensitive information. Interviewees may or may not have painful and unusual stories to tell, and...
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...Sexual violence is a major social and public health problem on many college campuses across the United States and many other countries. Sexual violence encompasses many different aspects of sexual deviancy but sexual violence is typically considered to be sexual assault or rape. Sexual assault and rape have affected men and women alike. However, the vast majority of sexual violence victims are women with men being the perpetrators. Women on college campuses have a higher chance of becoming a victim of sexual assault then other women. Rape is defined as penetration or attempted penetration of sexual organs, but sexual assault is a much broader term. Sexual assault includes; completed or attempted penetration, abusive sexual contact without...
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...Name Teacher English 101-Section 10 November 2014 Cause of Sexual Assault on College Campuses Over the last few years, the media has been filled with news broadcasts and reports of sexual assaults on college campuses. According to an article written by Wayne State University’s Dr. Antonia Abbey, “The term sexual assault is used . . . to describe the full range of forced sexual contacts . . .” This includes “. . . touching or kissing; verbally coerced intercourse; and physically forced [sexual behaviors]” (118). While these events are highly publicized when they occur, they happen much more frequently than realized. Young women are the primary victims of these attacks; reports regarding the assault of men are much less frequent. Many things contribute to why sexual assault and rape happen on college campuses. Alcohol consumption, personal psychological factors, and social influence all play a major role in why and how these events occur. The central factor in all rape and sexual assault cases is the victims are not adequately informed of the dangers beforehand. With that said, it is not the victim’s fault they were abused, but had they been proactive to remove themselves from the situation, things would have resulted differently. Alcohol plays a major role in sexual assault. Every campus has some aspect of Greek life—fraternities, sororities, and other elite social organizations. It can be noted these organizations are mostly known, and classified, according to the parties...
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...I. Description of the Research Topic Sexual assault and rape culture have become a predominant issue around the world. Ranging from college campuses to small villages in Rwanda, women are being taken advantage of for the benefit of men. Sexual assault detrimentally affects women and their way of life. In the following paper, I will discuss political violence through sexual assault in two countries, The Democratic of Congo, and Darfur the region in Sudan; the statistics of sexual assault on college campuses in the United States; laws, policies, procedures, and human rights developed to address sexual assault and how they affect women; sexual violence in the workplace; and current events about sexual assault and the effect on women today. II....
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...Sexual assault is defined as, “physically forcing or threatening someone to engage in sexual activity,”(Krebs). Incapacitated sexual assault occurs more often, and occurs when the victim is unable to legally consent because they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs(Krebs). In recent years, the number of sexual assault victims on college campus has skyrocketed. Most victims are typically freshman. In 2009, two universities participated in the CSA (Campus Sexual Assault) study. Undergraduate women students, who met the criteria, were asked to complete an anonymous survey. Amongst the two universities, less than half of eligible students agreed to answer questions to the survey. The study found that 7.5% of freshman(1,297 students) had...
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...campuses. Sexual assault on college campuses is an epidemic that has affected hundreds and thousands of college students. The Hunting Ground is a documentary that discusses sexual assault on campus and how some college administrators inadequately handled the claims by their students. Sexual assault on campuses a problem that is affecting many women and men throughout the county and the world. In order to fully understand the social problem claim that is being made, one must examine the grounds, warrants, and conclusions of sexual assault on campuses. The beginning stage of the social problem process is to create the grounds of the claim....
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