"Do you know what rape is like, and to scream and no one hears you?" Envision this, knowing this happens within our sacred text the Bible, and still happens today. Why do we not learn from our past? Is it that our cultural norms blinds, mutes and deafens ' our senses to what is said, to that of what is not said in our Biblical text? In this paper I am removing the scales from my eyes, the deafness in my ears and silencing of my mouth to let the passage speak to me. In hopes to convict my heart of those cultural norms that shape my thinking may give away to pay greater attention to the silent voices of women in larger text. For example, 2 Samuel 13:14 "But he would not listen to her; and being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her." Although in its larger context, this pericope focuses on the succession of …show more content…
2003. Studies show that a lifetime rate of rape and attempted rape for all women is 17.6%. I had chosen to add the children 's rate of 29% for the age range 12-17, due to the fact that Tamar was around 15 years old when Amnon raped him. 93% of juvenile sexual assault victims know their attacker, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2000 Sexual Assault of Young Children as Reported to Law Enforcement. 2000. Thus the case for Tamar. Albeit that during the era, it was common if not encouraged, particularly in royal families to ensure, for instance, that any claims to the throne kept in the family. Nonetheless, in today 's figures "44% of victims are under the age of 18, and 80 % are under the age of 30. Every 107 seconds an American woman is a victim of sexual assault, and every year in America there are approximately 293,000 reported victims of sexual assaults. 68% of sexual assaults go unreported to the police, and 98% of rapists will never spend more than one day in jail or prison. What is also startling is, someone the victim knows commits approximately 4 out of 5 assaults, and 47% of the rapists are friends or
1 in 5 women have been raped in their lifetime in the United States. 19.3 million women in the United States have been stalked in their lifetime.7 “If we are to fight discrimination and injustice against women we must start from the home for if a woman cannot be safe in her own house then she cannot be expected to feel safe anywhere.” Aysha
From the Criminal Defense Lawyer page about Aggravated Sexual Assault Charges and Penalties, it states that sentences can be from five to fifteen years depending on the state or the severity of the assault, and 20 years to a possible life sentence if the victim is under the age of 16, depending on the severity of the crime. On another website called The Odyssey Online about Sexual Assault Cases, it has a statistic pie chart that says: For every 100 rapes in the United States, 46 people will report it, 12 will result in an arrest, nine will be prosecuted, five will result in a conviction, and only three will serve one day or more in jail. This is an absolutely frightening statistic. Less than half of rapes will be reported and only three offenders will serve a day or more in jail. This statistic needs to change for this problem to have a chance of being solved.
It is estimated in the U.S that rape or attempted rape occurs every five minutes. It is documented that 46% of criminals charged for rape become apprehended within three years of being released for different criminal activity.
A lot of times when rape is reported, it is not as serious as it should be. The rapist might get suspended for a semester of some kind of simple punishment but it is very rare that they get expelled or arrested. In 2012. 45% of colleges reported 0 sexual assaults. This shows how a very small amount of people report rape.
To Report Into Easy To Discredit Victims. This article Challenge the accuracy of David Lisak and his associates findings in their asserting that their data for false accusation provided inconsistent number. Belknap (2010) question if 5% of rapes among college women are reported to campus police how can 5.9% of rapes reported on college campus are false accusations reports. according to Belknap (2010) 95% of college women do not report their rate victimization to the police 5% the Lisak is saying that 5% is false accusation. The problem with this study
In 1997 the total number of sexual assault cases recorded in Australia was 14,138, 60 percent of victims were aged under 20 and 79% of victims were female. Statistics by ABS show in the year of 2021 there were 11,550 reports of sexual assault, 71% of victims being under the age of 18. 83% of the victims were female, an increase of 4 percent since 1997. Many sexual assault cases go unreported in fear that the justice system will fail the victims, statistics such as recent as 2019 show that 14,994 incidents were reported to NSW Police but only 1,207 finalised charges. This shows that the conviction of sexual assault is also a problem towards the victims. Although with the many law reforms in place, sexual assault is still a continuing issue in todays society with 1 in 4 women having experienced sexual assault in their lifetime.
Sexual assault remains the most underreported crime for teens as well as adults, (Why Don’t They Tell? In the award-winning novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson writes about a character named Melinda Sorinado who was raped in the summer of freshman year and during freshman year we read about her dealing with the trauma she experienced. “Its choppy, nonlinear narrative gradually reveals that shortly before the first day of school, Melinda went to a party, where she was raped by a handsome, popular senior… But also, I had been sexually assaulted a month before ninth grade started,” (Interview with Author). Due to him being so popular, she didn’t tell anyone, some of the reasons that may have happened could be.
Chapter eight of my book talks about Sexual Assault. Rap, sexual abuse and assault happens more than we think and not just among women, however, men as well. The odds are that the person who abuses you is likely someone that you know. Many sexual abuse cases involving children is unreported as a result of being scared, ashamed, guilt or threatened, same goes for being raped or attempted rapes. There are several myths about rap in the manner that women provoke or wanted to be raped, cry rap to take revenge, women wanted it since they did not resist and many more.
Of the 22.3 million children between the age of 12 and 17 in this country, at some time in their life about 1.8 million have been the victim of a serious sexual assault, 3.9 million have been the victim of a serious physical assault, and almost 9 million have witnessed serious violence (Helen, Connelly,
According to a March 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, from 1995 to 2010, the estimated annual rate of female rape or sexual assault declined 58%, from 5.0 victimizations per 1,000 females age 12 or older to 2.1 per 1,000. Are we not doing anything about it? There are kids getting raped, and it seems like the people in the U.S aren’t doing anything to help them. Does the people not care? Everyday there are over 22 kids and women getting raped.
We were 14. We were both terrified as this happened and she went home crying. One in five women in the United States survive rape or attempted rape. But, not only women can be sexually assaulted. One in six men are assaulted or abused before the age of eighteen.
However, from the late 1970s through 2008, rape and sexual assault rates, as measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey, steadily declined (Mears, 2010, p. 82). This survey, however, does not consider all crimes that are considered sexual crimes. There is no existing data on all the various crimes that could be considered sexual crimes. Over the past 30 years, according to a new
Sexual assault is very common and very difficult to overcome for most, in another article the girls that claimed to be raped talked about their process of overcoming the claimed assault they all have different experiences and different ways of coping with it again showing how different the reactions can
Another example would be, how all women during this time are looked at to play a certain role and never to step out of their role. Throughout one's readings of Go tell it on the Mountain it is bold how the writer expresses that the female has no type of consent toward her growth as a person. The female role is forced to follow by the male of the household's rules. The male has the say within
A few reasons a person may not report a rape includes: denial, fear of the legal system, fear of retaliation, guilt and blame, personal matters and victim-offender relationship. Due to denial, victims do not report rape because they may not be sure if it was rape. In order for a victim to come to the decision of reporting rape he or she needs to realize it was rape. Some victims do not realize it was rape due to the issue of less violence (Burgess et al., pg.376). The victims who report their rapes are the ones who acknowledge it was rape and the rape that occurred was more violent (Burgess et al., pg.376).