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Child Abuse and acquaintance rape 19th, November, 2012 Introduction Child abuse relates to unlawful emotional, physical, sexual, neglect, social, psychological mistreatments that affects the child's growth, rights, health, life, self-esteem, and survival (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2008).... Literature Review In addressing the victims of child abuse and acquaintance rape, this paper will consider three relevant articles for each victim.... acquaintance rape refers to a form of rape where offenders known to the victims use coercion or force to carry out sexual activities on the victims....
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A Study of Child Abuse and acquaintance rape victims University Name A Study of Child Abuse and acquaintance rape victims Introduction Victims need to be understood.... There are numerous advocacy groups in existence to help both victims of child abuse and acquaintance rape.... In a similar fashion, victims of acquaintance rape suffer emotionally as well.... Couple that with the fact that many in society are still skeptical of any claim of acquaintance rape, and victims may become likely to not report the crime out of fear that others will not believe them....
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Nancy Mellissa Philosophy 5 Paul Hicks 06 December 2012 The impact of rape on the victims There are various issues that surround the concept of rape which is often problematic in different societies since it causes untold suffering to the victims.... Rapists usually apply force to subdue their victims and it can be seen that rape is all about power where the sexual offender seeks to derive sexual pleasure from another person without his or her consent....
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nbsp;… In approximately two-thirds of the cases reported the perpetrators were someone known to the victims.... 38% of perpetrators were known to the victims, 28% were very close to the victim and 7% were some relatives.... In a sexual assault the victims, either a girl or a boy, indulge in sexual activity either forcefully or through deceit.... The statistics in this regard state that in 73% of the rape cases the perpetrator was a stranger....
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hellip; This paper tackles the crime of sexual assault, its definition; an overview of what it is all about; the available direct statistics concerning the subject matter; the effects of sexual assault on the victim; where sexual assaults are commonly committed; the legal and civil remedies available to the victim; characteristics of the sex offender; and finally a literature review of sexual assault cases with an additional emphasis on cases where they are committed while the assailant and possibly the victim too is intoxicated with alcohol....
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Approximately 73% of rape victims know their assailants which will be discussed in more detail later.... Department of Justice's National Crime Victimization Survey -- the country's largest and most reliable crime study- there were 248,300 sexual assaults in 2007, one in every two minutes.... Explanations are abundant and diverse, but for the purpose of this paper we look into Lee Ellis' book “Theory of Rape: Inquiries into the Causes of sexual Aggression"....
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Although many scholars have linked heavy drinking to the rampant cases of sexual assaults experienced among the youth in the US, this problem is never given the appropriate attention it needs.... Part of the reasons why sexual assaults get little attention is the disagreements regarding the role of alcohol in sexual assault cases: Consequently, this has become a stumbling block in the formulation of prevention strategies.... It is one form of sexual violence that often happens to women both young and adults....
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n acquaintance rape, the offender is usually somebody who the victim knows casually or by sights, such as a colleague or a neighbour.... Somebody who commits acquaintance rape or date rape can make use of various tactics, such as seeing to it that she is isolated, locking the door, making promises of taking her home from an event or party but taking her someplace else instead; he may threaten the victim with public humiliation, telling her that he will tell their friends that they sexually romantic regardless of what might actually take place; he may pressure her emotionally, saying that if she doesn't agree, he will leave her; or he may use economic pressure, saying that he deserves sexual intimacy because he paid for their dinner (Huff, 2009)....
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