Trends and Issues in Victimology Trends and Issues in Victimology Edited by Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar and Moshe Bensimon Trends and Issues in Victimology, Edited by Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar and Moshe Bensimon This book first published 2008 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12 Back Chapman Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2XX, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2008 by Natti Ronel
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It is said that men outnumber women in the world; this is the case in some countries such as the United States however it is the opposite in China. In other words, half of the Chinese population are men. It is believed that the motive behind gender inequality between Chinese males and females is due to their one-child policy . Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has established the one-child policy in 1979 as a solution to limit China’s population growth. Although it was implemented as a ``temporary measure
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Top Three Reasons Abortion Should Remain Legal What would you do if the government repealed your rights to control what you do to your body? Whether it be a tattoo, a piercing, or giving a transplant, those are decisions that should be left up to you. So imagine how some women must feel when abortion is the main topic of a conversation. Imagine how women must feel when people around her are saying that abortion should be illegal because the mother is “murdering” her child. The fact of that matter
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liberated (Frier and McGinn, pp. 19-20, 22). Because women have legal status as citizens and they also had the degree to which they could become liberated, women could not only own property, but also record agreements, and involve in business (Frier and McGinn, p. 461). Furthermore, Roman women could also show up in court and contend situations, even though it was habitual for them to be represented by a man (Bauman, p.50). There are several examples of women taking knowledgeable actions in permissible troubles
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Case Study: Plastecs Discriminationn, Employee Turnover and Retention Abstract This is a case study that looks at a fictional company’s need to address employee turnover and retention. It explains possible routes Paul, the company’s Director of Human Resources, could take based on information found in our text which is referenced in the case study as well. It highlights terms we have covered in the past 3 weeks and answers questions presented in the explanation of what the case study should
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further later on. Before I consider the three reasons I want to heighten your awareness of the current abuse statistics and the current HIV statistics. a detailed study carried out in 2004 concluded that prostitutes do indeed have an increased chance of contracting STDs such a syphilis, hepatitis B and HIV. Over all 30,000 women a year worldwide die of HIV contracted through prostitution. These shocking figures surely warrant some consideration towards legalising prostitution. So why is prohibition
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and Patriarchy’s Effect on Battered Women’s Syndrome and Abuse Introduction Domestic violence has existed for centuries and is still prevalent in present day society (Flowers, 1996: 131). Domestic violence generally involves violence towards women and children (Sev’er, 2007: 235).This generally includes physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional violence directed towards a spouse, girlfriend, wife, or partner (DeKeseredy, 2005: 234). One of the debates surrounding domestic violence is the legitimacy
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that the women engaged in prostitution for economic survival are in it by ‘coerced choice’ instead of a real one. In most cases, the prostitute is poor and traumatized even before she enters such a profession. Prostitution is a deranging and extreme form of gender discrimination. It not just affirms, but backwashes male supremacy. A violation in its most characteristic forms, legalised prostitution is nothing but an infringement to the fundamental freedom and citizenship rights of women. It not just
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violence against women in the sex industry. “Prostitutes who experience violence may be reluctant to call the cops since what they're doing is illegal. Sex workers in licensed brothels, on the other hand, can have somebody to back them up, according to a paper by Barbara Brents and Kathryn Hausbeck of the University of Nevada. Brents and Hausbeck interviewed brothel owners and made these observations… The study concluded that "brothels offer the safest environment available for women to sell consensual
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were sexual diffusion, influence, and lack of accord. Women who were raped were anticipated to have actually struggled to the highest of their influences or their assaulter would not be sentenced of rape. Moreover, a husband can have sex with his wife without her will without existence of the charge of rape. Beginning in the 1970s, state legislatures and courts expanded and redefined the crime of rape to reflect modern notions of equality and legal propriety. When the character of McGillis finally
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