She further presents the cases as the source of empowerment for the young women to stand their grounds and marry against the wish of their parents (Sloan, 62). Besides, she explains that most girls presented “maltreatment at home” as their main reason for eloping with their prospective husbands, further challenging the authority of their parents. Sloan (122) narrates with evidence how the youth “alluded to a set of mutual obligations” within the members of a family, their suitors and the family of the partners so as to create rationale for their actions. Through the rapto cases, the youth slowly gained insight in the legal aspects and soon recognized “their status as individuals with rights and guarantees and could wield these concepts effectively in their dispositions and arguments before the judge” (Sloan154). Their understanding of their individual rights fueled them to stage allegations against the parents who either failed or were unable to meet the “end of the bargain”
The documentary, Half the Sky, is an eye-opening film on the injustices women experience in the world; during the film, the reporters travel to Sierra Leone. While there, they met with a young girl who had been raped by her uncle, which brought to light the fact that rape is considered to be disgraceful, not for the rapist but for the victim. The young girl in this situation chose to speak out about the sexual abuse she experienced, and she was the one who suffered for it. Personally, I believe it was outrageous for her to have been kicked out of her own home for something that was forced upon her; to quote the documentary, “it is the victim that has the burden to prove herself innocent”, which although such a statement seems primitive, it
The article in the Maclean’s magazine by Anne Kingston “Shacked and abandoned”, describes that two more female sexual assault complainants were jailed in Edmonton to ensure their testimony at trial. The second women was forced to spend a sleepless night at the remand Centre while seven months pregnant, she was spared proximity to attacker as he was out on bail. She was forced to travel in a prisoner transport van with a man later convicted of brutally stabbing, beating, choking and sexually assaulting her. Alberta’s Justice Minister Kathleen Ganley ordered an investigation.
Summary of Key Facts/Legal Issues I my project I will be evaluating the case involving a woman named Schroer who eagerly wanted to volunteer at the rape crisis center. Schroer was a man by birth but later had identified herself as a woman at the age of 29. She passed through the sexual reassignment surgery to being closer to her emotional self after the self-identification as women. She had been with a partner after the surgery but she got physically and emotionally abused by her partner.
Rape in the Fields documentary was very heartbreaking, although I was not surprised. Through out this course I have learned what women are subjected to at their jobs and it brought me back to the previous movie we had watched, North Country. The two movies were very similar in the fact that women face harassment while at work, although rape in the fields case did not get the justice they deserved. This film shows human rights violations against illegal immigrant women in the farm fields. The Rape in the Fields has been at the forefront of dialogue to further investigate the sexual crimes migrant women must endure in the agricultural industry.
The Case of The Millennium During 1930 on November 21st there was a case of Rape. The accused person was Tom Robinson a colored person. His lawyer was Atticus Finch a white man. He was the only lawyer in Maycomb who would take on the case he was a well-known one too Mayella Ewell was the individual who accused Tom Robinson of rape she is also the victim. The court room was led by Judge Taylor.
It’s mostly known and thought out to think that date rape is usually forced and not consensual, but is it really? Date rape is thought to be with a stranger or someone the victim just met but also usually is someone that the victim knows or just met. Date rape is forced and or without warning to the victim. The victim is often drugged and there state of mind is altered to not know what is occurring around them.
To further explain, in the Girl Rising documentary, viewers are taken through the life of a young girl, Suma, in Nepal. She was only six-years-old when her parents exchanged her obedient working hand for money. She was then sent to a home where she would do chores such as washing the dishes, cut firewood and maintain the farm. At her next working home, Suma’s employer’s forced her to eat their scraps, and called her “unlucky girl”. At this home, she was sexually abused, but she did not let that define her.
When someone makes an oath in court, it says that one must tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. However, we know that there is never a whole truth, in anything. Colleges and Universities face this problem more than others with situations like date rape. To understand how serious date rape is, one would need to be aware of the history behind it, how to prevent it, and how it happens.
While a lenient attitude may benefit individual female defendants, they are ultimately not only discriminatory towards the victims of female offenders but negative for women themselves (Weare, 2013). When featured in mediated crimes, women are usually over-represented as victims (Weare, 2013). From the ‘labelling’ perspective, the symbiotic relationship between labelling women who kill as either mad, bad, or a victim is highlighted while their agency is continuously in denial and absent (Weare, 2013). As a consequence, victims lack the closure needed to heal and perpetrators themselves never learn. Therefore, the criminal justice system’s response towards women is therefore enforcing stereotypical female sex roles that perpetuate patriarchy.
Sexual assault laws have been amended and created over time to ensure the criminal justice system remains sensitive to the tribulations involved in rape trials for the victim. However, the connotative capacity of language used in evidentiary testimonies in rape trials can defeat the purpose of these reforms as ‘language is not merely a means of putting forth evidence in a case, but it in fact transforms the nature of evidence itself, thus influencing the outcome of the case’ (Maheshwari 2014:1). As theorised by Bourdieu (1982) symbolic power as ‘the power to create reality through language’ (Matoesian 1995:38) is successfully employed in rape trials to instil patriarchal and legal domination over the victim. The use of language in courtroom
Date rape drugs are those administered surreptitiously to induce unconscious or sedated state in a potential date rape victim. Date rape occur when a perpetrator uses physical or physiological intimidation to force a victim to have sex against his or her will or when the perpetrator has sex with a victim who is incapable of giving consent because they have been incapacitated by the drug or alcohol. This review describe the magnitude of date rape drug use, explains drugs most commonly used, its pharmacological effect on human body, ways of have been drugged and raped and protection from being a victim. Date rape occurs in every two minutes, somewhere in the world. The review briefing out about the legality of date rape drugs and importance of structured educational programs against date rape.
Sexually abused When I was growing up as a young child, I was sexually abused. I lived through it by never telling anyone closer to me, and eventually forgot everything that as happened to myself. While i was at the high school I was date raped, and once again I lived through it by keeping it a top secret to myself. Throughout my lifetime in high school and college, I struggled to make sure that people only saw infallibility in me. I was an Honored student, sports captain, I hang around about with the good group.
Destiny, a young girl of age 14 walks into the doctor’s office. Dirk, the doctor finds out that the young patient has been infected with an STD. There are signs of rape, caused by a fellow school member, and signs of abuse at home. As a doctor, Dirk is worried that the infection will spread in his neighborhood. The doctor feels responsible for Destiny's well being, and he is also aware of his obligation to treat his patient's information with confidentiality.
Diaspora “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them”. We often tend to believe in things that we are taught. Our first teachers are our parents. However, there has come times were we all have come to think how everything they have taught us might not necessarily be right for us. This quote is also reflected in the autobiography, “Daughters of Shame”, written by Jasvinder Sanghera.
