Act Of Rape Research Articles

The Pattern of Alleged Rape Case in Dhaka City

Background: Rape is a common social problem having great implication on the Victim, family, Judiciary and state. However it is very difficult to prove the actual rape because it is difficult to establish whether it is a consented sex or actual rape. Objective: To assess the pattern of alleged rape case in Dhaka city. Method: 176 cases of alleged rape were studied during the period of 2019-2022 at the Tertiary hospital, Dhaka. Results: Of these, 130 cases had consented sexual intercourse. 46 victims were subjected to rape. Cases include different age groups, their occupations, living areas, time of arrival for medicolegal examination have been studied. Most of the cases were students. An alarming number of victims were subjected to gang rape. Examination and reporting of the cases with have been discussed. Conclusion: This study shows that only one fourth of the alleged rape victims are the real rape cases. The victims of other cases had consent to sexual intercourse. There were several victims below the age of consent who cannot give valid consent to sexual intercourse as per law.

PEREMPUAN DAN PERKOSAAN MEI 1998 DALAM DUA CERPEN KARYA SENO GUMIRA AJIDARMA: KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS

The May 1998 rape is one of the historic events that has yet to be resolved. This event is portrayed in literary works as a sociocultural document. Seno Gumira Ajidarma as the author and journalist describes the incident through his short stories, namely "Clara" (1998) and "Jakarta, 14 February 2039" (1999). The short story about the rape in May 1998 is full of women's issues and gender injustice in society. This study seeks to uncover how female characters and the rape in May 1998 are depicted in short stories using a radical feminist literary criticism. Descriptive-qualitative method is used in this research. The results of the analysis show that the May 1998 rapes show a gender imequality, because women are seen as parties who have the right to be controlled by men. Even in the act of rape, women are only seen as an object. Because of the rape, female characters, both victims of violence and children born from rape, have to bear the severe trauma. This is in accordance with the radical feminist view that rape is the basis for men to practice their power and control over women, and the demand that women must regain control over their body autonomy.

IPV prevention must be integrated into HIV care

Longitudinal research on intimate partner violence (IPV) and HIV in South Africa has shown that exposure to IPV is associated with an increased likelihood of women having HIV.1 In the country, an estimated one in four infections in women are due to IPV and partner controlling behaviour 1. South African research has also shown that abuse and neglect in childhood elevate the risk of HIV acquisition.2 Furthermore, women who have been raped in South Africa are at increased risk of HIV acquisition in the months after the rape,3 in addition to being at risk of HIV acquisition through the act of rape.

Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-38

In Genesis 19.30-38, Lot’s daughters commit incest with their father to save his seed. Earlier in Genesis 19.6-8, Lot offered his daughters to be raped by the men of Sodom to save the honour of his male guests. Reading these stories together, in the latter, we observe an inverted world where victims become perpetrators and vice versa. If read through trauma theory, the inversion could imply that the daughters’ rape of Lot was motivated by revenge; however, traumatic re-enactment, where the daughters repeat their earlier trauma but also invert it, could also suit the textual evidence. Verses 30–38 could be read as an attempt to master previous trauma through repetition, where the recurring descriptions of design and act of rape are central to the interpretation of the narrative. This reading does not lessen the horror of the passage but rather adds to our understanding of trauma in Genesis 19.30–38.

MARITAL RAPE DALAM AL-QUR’AN:

Marital rape is understood as an act of rape within a marriage. In Islamic law, the issue of coercion in sexual relations receives less attention due to the domination of patriarchy and a lack of understanding of religion, especially the existence of interpretations that are still gender-biased. The verse that is often used as legitimacy for ownership of women's bodies is Qs. Al-Baqarah (2): 222-223. Although this action has been given legal punishment in the legal system, analysis of this verse's interpretation is insufficient to become a starting point in producing the antithesis of an understanding that tolerates it. Through the interpretation function theory of Jorge J.E Gracia as a hermeneutical foundation, this study seeks to examine Hamka's relevant interpretation in Tafsir Al-Azhar to obtain alternative understandings that are relevant to today's context. Interpretation of Al-Azhar is considered relevant as a representation of interpretation which is closely intertwined with Indonesian sosial culture so it is possible to examine this phenomenon through different contexts of revelation and interpretation as well as the implications of the meanings of both related to the phenomenon of marital rape. Through this method, the conception offered by Hamka begins to focus on sosial aspects and shows significant differences between the context of revelation and the context of interpretation regarding the roles of husband and wife, as well as the relationship between the two.

MULTIPLE ACTS OF SEXUAL PENETRATION WITHIN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME – SINGLE OR MULTIPLE ACTS OF RAPE? S v Willemse 2011 (2) SACR 531 (ECG)

The case under discussion exposes a particular twilight zone in respect of the sexual offence of rape, and more specifically, the question as to when multiple acts of sexual penetration perpetrated by the same perpetrator within a relatively short time span, will constitute multiple acts of rape. The latter, in addition, specifically becomes problematic during sentencing. Once it has been established that a victim was raped more than once by an accused, a court is obliged in terms of section 51(1) of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 105 of 1997 (hereinafter “the Act”) to impose a sentence of life imprisonment, unless substantial and compelling circumstances exist to depart from the prescribed minimum sentence. The decision under discussion is of particular interest as the court was once again required to assess whether multiple acts of sexual penetration constituted a single act of rape, or multiple acts of rape and as such falling within the ambit of the provisions of the Act with regards to sentencing. A related issue addressed by the judgment, relates to the anomaly in respect of the appropriate approach to follow in cases of this nature relating to multiple acts of sexual penetration in order to assess whether these acts should be construed as multiple acts of rape, or as one single and prolonged act of rape.

Effect of Rape on Physical and Psychological Aspects of Girl Child in Northern Nigeria

Rape is considered as a heartrending moment in a woman’s or girl’s life, it is reality but remain hidden to appropriate authority due to certain distress associated with stigma against the survivor, fear of victimization, cultural barrier, religious sentiments, shame influential, and lack of cognizance on human right. Rape is simply when sexual intercourse occur without ones consent (not willing) or force a person to have sexual intercourse against his/her will, it happen when someone is intoxicated from alcohol or drugs and sometimes for ritual purpose. It can be through vagina, anus or mouth. In northern Nigeria, rape is defined under section 282 of the panel code as. (a) Any act of rape against her will, (b) obtained by putting her fear, threats or death, (iii) with her consent when the man knows that he is not her husband and that her concern is given because she believes that he is the man who to whom she is or believe herself to be lawfully married to, (iv) with or without her consent when she is under fourteen years of age. The main objective of this paper is to examine the following. Why do men rape? How does rape harm victims psychologically? , What should I do if I have been raped? How can I protect myself from rape? What is the best way to prevent STD. Rape as felony, is among the most serious crime a person can commit, men as well as women and children can be raped. This paper will seek an answer to the above questions and provide some recommendations which will be of great importance to social agencies, survivors, parents and security agencies.

The body and the deed. Places of rape in Swedish court narratives

A fundamental starting point for this article is that place in a broad sense is a crucial, yet forgotten, dimension in the legal analysis of rape. Therefore, in this study I ask what role place has in the adjudication of rape; in the interpretation of rape law as well as in the evaluation of evidence. I analyze three Swedish rape cases, two from the Supreme Court, marking out the sexual act of rape, and one case from an appellate court, applying this rule. The latter is closely related to the Swedish #metoo movement and extremely high-profiled. I take a closer look at how the act of rape is linked to place in these judgements. Concretely, I study the narration and classification of the crimes, including the legal labelling and the positioning and portrayal of the complainant and the defendant. My main conclusion is that place is quite absent in the courts’ legal narratives of rape. In my view, notwithstanding obvious place-related events. Apart from stressing the place of the body, in the first case, place was absent in the legal narratives in all instances. The court did not touch upon the question of whether the complainant should be able to feel safe in her own home and not have to fear violence and abuse. Nor did it touch upon similar aspects in the third case where the occupational and the public character of the place and shame, according to the victim’s own story, hindered her from reacting loudly. In the second case, the appellate court invoked place by implicitly stressing home and belonging when noting that the young man was far from home, thus being particularly vulnerable. Later the Supreme Court declared that sexual vulnerability should not be related to place at all and decided not to label the event as rape.

Navođenje deteta na prisustvovanje polnim radnjama - nametnuta i neprimetna inkriminacija

This crime, introduced in our KZ as an obligation a resulting from the provisions of the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, has almost no practical significance in judicial practice. This confirms the past 12 years, since it has existed in the Criminal Code, and although by all parameters, given the "nonexistence" of this crime in judicial practice, its decriminalization should be performed, obligations undertailing from the aforementioned Convention do not allow us to do so. But even if we abstrate this fact, we still believe that there are objections that we have pointed to in the work, which the lawmaker has not addressed, and they are in paragraph 1 of this law offence of an essential nature, while in paragraph 2 of this Article, terminological nature. Therefore, in paragraph 1, it is a complaint that allegations of witnessing sexual acts of a criminal character such as rape on the one hand of other punishable sexual acts (adultery with a child, adultery against a powerless person, adultery by abuse of office and illicit sexual activity) on the other hand and especially as a third voluntary sexual relationship. These tentatively stated three types of sex acts cannot be treated in any way together nor can they have the same range of threatened punishment (no matter how much of that range of punishment is). In some future amendments to the KZ, this "anomaly" should be corrected by iciting the child to attend sexual acts such as rape should be incrimination as a more severe form and therefore foresee greater punishment than the existing one. The reason is more than clear and logical, because the presence of a child in the act of rape inevitably creates dangerous and long-lasting consequences for his mental (mental) health. Regarding paragraph 2 of this Constitution, terminologically difficult to subjugation under the notion of forcing a child to attend sex acts. In this sense, corrections should be made that could be in the title of the crime itself, and that correction could be - bringing and forcing the child to attend sex acts.

Rape, Possession and the Law in Thomas Middleton's 'Women Beware Women' and 'The Changeling'

Patriarchal constructsordain male dominance over female lifestyle and livelihood, additionallydetermining feminine value: more specifically what should happen with, and to, awoman's body. Outlined within Renaissanceproductions such as Thomas Middleton’s WomenBeware Women and The Changeling, possessiveinequality lies behind each woman taken by her rapist. Early laws such as the 1275 Statute of Westminster liken rape to theft and help fashionthe practice to be resultant of female Edenic flaw. Thus, both culture and law reveal the trivializationof rape through the necessity of possession. Rape and other sexual inequities become justifiable as a requisite rightof the man, and part of the natural order to satisfy the woman. Throughout culture and law, rape and chastity expectations demonstratethe need for men to “purify” male dominated societies of women that "drivemen" to sexual compulsion. Women arerepresentative of societal atrocities--manifestations of patriarchal fearspertaining to the loss of power. Purgingsociety of supposed forces proves a valuable service to patriarchal order, as aloss of these controls over the woman could prove disastrous. Thus, in order for the familial and societalpatriarchy to maintain stability, it is the right of the man to exercise his jurisdiction. Because women are possessions, theirviolation directly relates back to their possessors; therefore, the woman’snatural propensity to be ravished, elicits a man’s cultural predisposition topossess. Ultimately, these texts expose possession as the factor used to justify man’s desire to rape, and denote the woman’s fault in her own rape. The act of rape is a political means of advancement in a culture filled with women in need of being ruled. Thus, patriarchal construct requires rule over sexuality, which must be regulated to protect women, the men that possess them, and the patriarchal society as a whole.

Gender and violence: Rape as a spectacle on prime-time television

This article focuses on the representation of rape on prime-time Turkish television and its context, where the industry, marketing and politics intersect, to investigate how the representation of rape on television serials functions. Since 2010, the prime-time episodic television of Turkey has used images of beautiful young girls and women who have been raped as a motif. A large number of TV serials have featured male violence against women as a central narrative concern, while there has been a rising trend featuring female characters as victims of rape. Often an episode in a television serial that features the act of rape is the most-viewed one in the series. The eroticization of violence against women through rape and gang rape scenes demonstrates that media, especially television, plays a key role in the construction of a violent masculinity that works according to the motto ‘I hurt therefore I am’. However, the television serial that give rape a central place in their narrative open a new space for public discussion about rape and other issues related to violence against women, and could encourage public outcry and defeat the government’s proposals based on traditional norms unfavorable to victims of sexual violence. While this article accepts the potential of television serials in bringing about social change, it does not forget the function of television series as entertainment and their active role in strengthening hegemonic masculinity. This article aims to shed light on the complex relations between gender, violence and television, as well as how gender relations are reproduced at a time when politics, media and economy interact and interlace.

The Haunting of Hate: Rape as a Form of Hate Crime

This paper seeks to explore how notions of gender and sexualities influence state and voluntary agencies’ understanding of men as victims of rape. It aims to examine the roles of gender, sexualities, and hate crime in male rape discourse, particularly examining the concept of male rape as a form of hate crime. I draw on data that consist of police officers, male rape counsellors, therapists, and voluntary agency caseworkers (N = 70) to explore male rape fuelled by hatred in the North, South and West of England. I used 25 semi-structured interviews and 45 qualitative questionnaires to collate the data. I ensured that those who were interviewed did not also fill out a questionnaire. The findings suggest that there is a link between male rape and hate crime, in that gay men or men presumed to be gay are positioned as feminine and subordinate through the act of rape. The findings suggest that the study of hate crime ought to be expanded to include male rape victims because my research suggests that, in some cases, hatred might be involved during an incident of rape.

Gender-Based Violence Againsts The Female Main Character in Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us

Abstract This research is a study of Colleen Hoover’s novel It Ends With Us. The purpose of this study is to reveal forms and impacts of gender-based violence and efforts of the female main character to overcome all the hardship. The main issue in this novel is gender-based violence againts the female main character named Lily Bloom. In this research, descriptive analysis method is used in studying the intrinsic theories, and extrinsic theories such as gender and feminism for supporting elements. The findings of this research points that Lily experiences several forms of gender-based violences such as child abuse, physical attacks, domestic violence, pornography violence, and an act of rape. Besides that, the physical and psychological impacts are also identified. Eventually, Lily can overcome her hardship by improving her financial condition, living independently, divorcing her abusive partner, and becoming a single parent. Both internal and external factors are in support of her measure to survive and live a better life. Keywords: feminism, gender, gender-based violence, women

MMPI-2-RF characteristics of veterans seeking treatment for military sexual trauma.

Military sexual trauma (MST) is defined as experiences of sexual assault or repeated, threatening, harassment during military service. MST events may not qualify within posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Criterion A, making symptoms associated with MST unique from trauma-related disorders. Little research has been done to understand those presenting for MST treatment. Thus, this article provides Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 2-Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) scores of 33 U.S. veterans who experienced MST in an effort to better understand psychological and personality characteristics of this important and unique group of veterans. Our sample comprised mainly African American, female, U.S. Army veterans seeking treatment of MST at a Department of Veterans Affairs specialty clinic. A majority of participants reported an attempted or actual rape during their service, averaging 1.87 (SD = 1.33) MST events. The most common diagnoses assigned by diagnosticians at intake were PTSD, mood disorders, and personality disorders. With regard to MMPI-2-RF results, the sample generated elevated scores on somatic, mood, anxiety, and interpersonal dysfunction scales. Implications of these findings and areas of future research are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

Reporting Rape Cases in India

Rape is considered one of the most heinous crimes towards the individual and its individuality. It has been observed in the studies that there is a huge gap between the actual rape cases occurring and the rape cases that are being reported to the authorities. It is assumed that the increased number of reporting of such crimes will lead to an appropriate trial and justice for the victim. Further it will facilitate in decreasing such crimes in India. The present study aims at understand the major reasons behind the reporting of rape cases. The data for the study was collected from the NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau) and GOI (Government of India) websites. The results indicate that if the literacy rate of woman will increase the reporting of such crime will also increase. An educated woman will be a better custodian of her rights and responsibilities.

Prisoner of love: sexual violence on Thai television

ABSTRACTSexual violence is prevalent as a plot device in Thai primetime television dramas, called lakhon. In the dramas, it is common for the hero to rape the heroine as part of a plot in which the two are fated to be together. The act of rape, and sexual violence more generally, is contextualized by narratives and ethical frameworks that make sexual violence comprehensible and legitimate. Gender violence is grounded in historical notions of sexual authority that deny female sexual agency. Thai lakhon, being the main form of televised domestic entertainment in Thailand, represent a critical element in the regulation of gendered forms of behavior and contribute to a culture in which women are subject to judgment and punishment.

Rape Myth Acceptance among Social Work Students

ABSTRACTIt is important to examine rape myth acceptance and the pertinent situational factors that affect attitudes and beliefs concerning the act of rape, perpetrators, and survivors. This study examines the influence of alcohol consumption and perceptions of alcohol use on levels of rape myth acceptance among social work students. Results showed differences in levels of rape myth acceptance based on race or ethnicity and gender. Results also showed that the version of the vignette read by the participant was a significant predictor of rape myth acceptance. Respondents’ perceptions of alcohol consumption were also a strong predictor of rape myth acceptance levels. These results demonstrate there are multiple factors that influence social work students’ rape myth acceptance levels that need further examination.

Becoming Survived: Action to Eliminate Sexual Violence

Sexual violence is an act of rape, sexual coercion, and harrasment, as well as sexual contact with coercion or threat using force. It is timely to consider that sexual violence is discussed in schools and take it as serious issue with empathy towards the victims and not only being considered as women’s issues that can only be discussed among women. Public awareness against it is crucial to be raised. This is important for women and girls as victim of violence to be survivors. These actions should also involve men in advocating against sexual violence. By providing an understanding of how men should behave toward women and listening to the testimony of women survivors of sexual violence of the trauma and its impact on women’s lives, it is expected that young men since early age will have a sensitivity in dealing with sexual violences.

The Seducer and the Rapist

Abstract The rule of Exod 22:15–16 refers unequivocally to an act of seduction and its legal ramifications. Its cognate rule in Deut 22:28–29 is regularly interpreted as referring to an act of rape and its legal ramifications. 11Q19 (11QTa) LXVI:8–11, however, integrates the two biblical decrees, applying the legal implications from Deuteronomy to the seducer. This paper examines the terms in the deuteronomic decree, demonstrating that they do not absolutely indicate violent rape; this, in turn, explains the Temple Scroll’s treatment of the text as referring to an act of seduction. A variety of practical differences result from the two disparate interpretations. Finally, the paper examines the conceptual distinctions between modern criminal law and ancient Israelite divine law.

The Seducer and the Rapist

The rule of Exod 22:15–16 refers unequivocally to an act of seduction and its legal ramifications. Its cognate rule in Deut 22:28–29 is regularly interpreted as referring to an act of rape and its legal ramifications. 11Q19 (11QTa) LXVI:8–11, however, integrates the two biblical decrees, applying the legal implications from Deuteronomy to the seducer. This paper examines the terms in the deuteronomic decree, demonstrating that they do not absolutely indicate violent rape; this, in turn, explains the Temple Scroll’s treatment of the text as referring to an act of seduction. A variety of practical differences result from the two disparate interpretations. Finally, the paper examines the conceptual distinctions between modern criminal law and ancient Israelite divine law.