Chris Offutt’s essay, “Someone Else,” is intelligently constructed and simply captivating. The story entertains and sympathizes with the readers yet ultimately informs the public of psychological damage resulting from sexual abuse and rape. Though this story is written to satisfaction, we as the audience only...
Childhood sexual abuse is a topic that has received more attention in recent years. 28% to 33% of women and 12% to 18% of adult males were victims of childhood or juvenile sexual abuse (Roland, 2002, as cited in Long, Burnett, & Thomas, 2006). Sexual...
Child sexual abuse is a major problem occuring in the world; it needs to stop. Around the world child maltreatment is caused by many factors, and the victims aren’t able to defend their self. Nothing is being done about sexually abusing children. Yes, in most...
Hate crimes are crimes that are motivated by discrimination towards a targeted group. Perpetrators perform harmful acts towards victims and can be as dangerous as murder or death threats to spitting and name calling (Saucier, Brown, Mitchell, Cawman, Kansas State University, University of Kentucky, 2006)....
Assault, Child sexual abuse, Crimes, Criminal law, Hate crime laws in the United States, Human sexual behavior, Sex and the law, Sex crimes, Sex offender, Sexual assault
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will not revise a historic Japanese apology for the army's use of war-time sex slaves made by previous administrations, his government has announced. "We must be humble regarding history. It should not be politicised or made into a...
The case below is of a judge (Patricia Doninger) who allowed her court marshals to degrade and sexually abuse a lady who was attending court hearings about her divorce case. After an investigation on the August 12 incident where the judge boycotted her responsibility of...
“There are approximately 100 million grown women in the United States, and I thought I heard them all growling today. These days women take it very seriously when they’re not taken seriously.” The sooner we all realize that this is an issue that affects both...
Perpetrators of sexual abuse of children are men and women who are struggling with meeting their own needs with other adults, so they turn to children to get those needs met. Oftentimes, these are men or women who have themselves experienced a history of sexual,...
Sexual harassment has turned the workplace into a hazardous place to be. It is becoming a place where an innocent remark can threaten a perfectly good career. It’s not like the old days when a kiss was just a kiss, a wink just a wink,...
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Clarence Thomas, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Human sexual behavior, Physical actions of a sexual nature, Sexual harassment, Sexual harassment cases, Sexual intercourse, Unwanted sexual advances, Woman
Interpersonal violence against someone or real weaker partner is a widespread phenomenon. Violence against women by anyone is always wrong, whether the abuser is someone you date, know or even a current spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, an acquaintance or a stranger. Many countries have already set...
Child maltreatment has the potential to induce both paraphilic behaviors and sexual deviance. The presence of adversity in childhood is said to be associated with sexual deviance and sexual violence, implying that exposure to trauma early on can increase the likelihood of sexual and general...
Sexual assault (and specifically “date rape”) is a very serious and prevalent topic in modern American society. It’s important that this topic be discussed with the youth of today. Drug-facilitated sexual assault, or “date rape”, happens when alcohol or drugs (or some combination) are used...
Abstract Victims of violence including domestic, sexual assault and stalking face a plethora of barriers when working to obtain independence from their abusers. Too often those who have experienced violence or stalking are traumatically revictimized in the court systems when they do not have the...
Introduction Regrettably, sexual exploitation and rape are not new concepts to the world, but when exploitation (financial or otherwise) occurs in the context of peacekeeping the reality becomes “profoundly disturbing” (Al-Hussein, 2005). The United Nations Security Counsel has had many failures since its installment in...
Child abuse, Child sexual abuse, Human rights violation, Human sexual behavior, Rape, Sexual abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual exploitation, Sexual intercourse
If one were asked to give examples various weapons, typically a list involving types of guns, knives, nuclear powers, and bombs would be recited; however, it is more than likely that one of the most populous weapons would be absent from one’s thoughts. The issue...
Community support workers have job specifications that they must work within to be in line with organisation policy and procedures, and to be responsible in their duty of care to their clients. If a client’s emotional wellbeing falls outside the scope of their job role,...
The recent appointment of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the United States Supreme Court was preceded by a highly contentious appointment hearing. Dr. Christine Blasey Ford came forward in an anonymous op-ed detailing the horrifying assault she endured when she was fifteen years old at the...
Each year two million six hundred thousand teenagers become sexually active, which is about seven thousand a day. Three out of ten American girls will become pregnant at least once before the age of twenty. Only twenty two states are required to teach sex education...
Sexual assault is a genuine offense and inside a campus setting, can turn out to be increasingly serious to the victim’s social and mental resistance. Being enclosed by new individuals, new companions, and teachers that are uninformed can make matters increasingly distressing and overwhelming to...
Incoming college students from all around the world await the new opportunities, everlasting friendships and parental free-living conditions that they will receive at their new campus. However, what is not included in the college brochures and websites is the amount of campus rape experiences women...
Trafficking or dealing of people is a worldwide issue that has caused many complications today. In particular, it is heighten in neighborhoods and networks where it’s being neglected of its reality. The time is taken to advise occupants about this issue locally and broadly, the...
Human trafficking is illegally forcing someone to be transported for labor or sexual exploitation. Almost 5 million of the people being trafficked are sexually exploited. Every day, more and more people are being abducted and trafficked. There are about 600,000 to 800,000 a year. Most...
Abstract This paper aims to study the effect of pornography on sexual violence and sex trafficking. The paper attempts to explore and analyze various research studies that have tried to understand the effect of pornography content on sexual violence. Research studies have suggested that exposure...
Introduction Music holds different values in every person life, from expressing emotions and feelings to therapeutic and healing properties. Humans evolved long time ago to express strong emotion on concerning social issues, and it is unarguable that words expressed through music passes the message with...
Trauma. There’s a word that most people do not like to talk about. For some, it is because they just simply do not want to talk about it, and for others, it is because they have experienced some type of trauma, that has impacted their...
Introduction Sexual assault is a sensitive topic in society. Although the occurrence of sexual assault is common, it can be difficult for individuals to speak about their trauma to others. This causes several victims to stay silent because they feel afraid or ashamed of their...
Introduction Humans are observant creatures soaking up information they see around them constantly and deciding if they should incorporate or accept it into their values and beliefs or criticise and reject it. Therefore it comes as no surprise that those who choose to involve themselves...
Introduction The term sexual assault refers to a variety of acts that are sexual in nature, this may range from rape, sodomy, penetration with an object and various other forms of forced activities including an attempt to force a person into some form of sexual...
The Army Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention Program or SHARP was established in 2006. Its main purpose is to prevent any sort of inappropriate behavior associated with sexual intentions while at the same time providing soldiers with the information necessary to safely report these violations....
Sexual assault and sexual harassment are two issues that the Army deals with periodically. Sexual harassment can be defined as ‘conduct that involves unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and deliberate or repeated offensive comments or gestures’. While Sexual assault is defined as ‘intentional...