date rape

Examples of date rape in the following topics:

• Rape

  • Definitions of rape and consent have evolved over time.
  • Often, victims blame themselves for rape.
  • The medieval concept of rape did not allow for the possibility of being raped by one's husband.
  • Currently, the struggle continues with efforts to bring attention to date rape, which is embedded in the gendered expectation that women engage in sexual activity following a date with a man.
  • Conversations about date rape work to undo this social expectation and to reinforce the idea that consensual sex requires the explicit permission of both partners.

• 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.

• 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.

• Crime Statistics

  • Another telling crime statistic that is traditionally seen as highlighting power imbalances is the number of rapes in society.
  • While the focus of this chapter is not on exploring the motivations behind rape, the number of rapes in the U.S. and internationally can be seen to reflect power imbalances between men and women as men are far more likely to rape women than vice versa.
  • The figures below and to the right show that rape rates in the U.S. have declined in recent years and also compare rape rates from select countries around the world.

• Deviance

  • Examples of formal deviance include robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault.

• Introduction to deviance

  • Examples of formal deviance would include: robbery, theft, rape, murder, and assault, just to name a few.

• The Death Penality

  • In some countries sexual crimes, such as rape, adultery, incest, and sodomy, carry the death penalty, as do religious crimes, such as apostasy in Islamic nations.

• Sexism

  • In 2002, women were the victims of over 900,000 violent crimes and over 200,000 rapes or sexual assaults.
  • Men are more likely to be the victims of violent crime, but far less likely to be the victims of rapes or sexual assaults.

• 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.

• White-Collar Crime

  • Much of Sutherland's work was to separate and define the differences in blue-collar street crimes such as arson, burglary, theft, assault, rape, and vandalism, which are often blamed on psychological, associational, and structural factors.