Forcible Rape

Examples of Forcible Rape in the following topics:

• Violent Crime

  • With the exception of rape (which accounts for 6% of all reported violent crimes), males are the primary victims of all forms of violent crime.
  • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

• Types of Crime

  • The United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) counts five categories of crime as violent crimes: murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault.

• Rape

  • Definitions of rape and consent have evolved over time.
  • Rape can cause devastating physical and psychological trauma.
  • Often, victims blame themselves for rape.
  • Although self-blame might seem like an unusual, intensely individual response to rape, it is rooted in social conceptions of rape and victimhood.
  • The medieval concept of rape did not allow for the possibility of being raped by one's husband.

• Slave Families

  • Blassingame notes that when a slave couple resided on the same plantation the husband witnessed the whipping and raping of his wife and the sale of his children.
  • He remarks, "Nothing demonstrated his powerlessness as much as the slave's inability to prevent the forcible sale of his wife and children."

• Slave Religion

  • A black man, they reasoned, who loved his wife and his children was less likely to be rebellious or to run away than would a 'single' slave. " Blassingame notes that when a slave couple resided on the same plantation, the husband witnessed the whipping and raping of his wife and the sale of his children.
  • He remarks, "Nothing demonstrated his powerlessness as much as the slave's inability to prevent the forcible sale of his wife and children. "

• Sexual Violence

  • The most commonly discussed form of sexual violence is rape.
  • Forms of sexual violence include: rape by strangers, marital rape, date rape, war rape, unwanted sexual harassment, demanding sexual favors, sexual abuse of children, sexual abuse of disabled individuals, forced marriage, child marriage, denial of the right to use contraception, denial of the right to take measures to protect against sexually-transmitted diseases, forced abortion, genital mutilation, forced circumcision, and forced prostitution.
  • This can be seen most clearly when considering war rape and prison rape.
  • War rape is the type of sexual pillaging that occurs in the aftermath of a war, typically characterized by the male soldiers of the victorious military raping the women of the towns they have just taken over.
  • Prison rape is the type of rape that is common (and seriously under reported) in prisons all over the world, including the United States, in which inmates will force sex upon one another as a demonstration of power.

• Current Research

  • However, fewer than 5% of people raped on college campuses report their sexual assault to law enforcement, which suggests the numbers in the figure may be substantially higher than the figure reports.
  • Further, official figures like the one below limit their reporting to "forcible sexual assault" despite mounting evidence that the vast majority of sexual assaults on college campuses do not fit this narrow definition, and typically involve more subtle forms of sexual violence and coercion.

• Montgomery and Protests

  • On March 2, 1955, Colvin was handcuffed, arrested and forcibly removed from a public bus when she refused to give up her seat to a white person.
  • In 1945, she was sent to Abbeville, Alabama to investigate the gang rape of Recy Taylor.

• Women and Slavery

  • Southern rape laws embodied race-based double standards.
  • In the antebellum period, black men accused of rape were punished with death whereas white men could rape or sexually abuse female slaves without fear of punishment.
  • While free or white women could charge their perpetrators with rape, slave women had no legal recourse.

• Treatment of Slaves in the U.S.

  • Treatment of slaves was characterized by degradation, rape, brutality, and the lack of basic freedoms.
  • Whippings, executions, and rapes were commonplace and slaves were usually denied educational opportunities, such as learning how to read or write.
  • Slave woman in the United States were frequently subjected to rape and sexual abuse.
  • Sella Martin countered that the apparent contentment was merely a psychological reaction to the exceedingly dehumanizing brutality that some slaves experienced, such as witnessing their spouses sold at auction or seeing their daughters raped.