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Rape - Research Paper

Rape


A flight attendent met a dark stranger in a coffee shop. He came up to her and told her he had seen her a couple of times and asked her if "she would like to have an authentic dinner with an authentic Itialian." She accepted the invitation. They had a couple of bottles of wine. All she remembers is waking up naked in a bed with her date at his apartment. She went to the police a couple of weeks later. Police found seven boxes of Rohypnol the so called date- drug and more than twenty homemade videos of the accused and his brother having sexual intercourse with at least twelve different women.(Forge.126)
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The F.B.I. says that several studies show that fewer than one in a hundred acquaintce rapes are reported to the police. "When one in four women will be raped in her lifetime, less than ten percent will report the assualt, and less than five percent of the rapist will go to jail." (Gibbs, 207) In this country a women was raped every six minutes, ten women every hour. In a twelve month period 76 per 1000 college women experienced one or more attempted or completed rapes. Rape is accounted for six percent of the total violent crime volume. Acuiantance rape and date rape are against the law.

Most people have a lot of incorrect ideas about rape. For example, they think of the rapists as a dirty, lonely old man in a torn trenchcoat who springs on his victims in dark alleyways. The facts about rape are very difficult, and very disturbing. Most rapist are between the age of fifteen and twenty-four, one third of all rapes are commited by someone known to the victim, nearly one-third of ...

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to prevent rape from occuring, they can still use their intelligence to protect themselves from further harm. They can maintain some control over the situation and help police to capture the rapists. When being raped remain calm and absolutely still. Use best judgement about continuing any sort of passive resistance that you have been using. Tell the rapist that you are a person, tell the rapist that you are uncomfortable, and that he/she is hurting you. Memorize as many details about the that you can. Try to use his/her eye color, hair color. If a male if he has a beard, scars or tattoos also describe the rapist as bing tall thin short stout, or tone of voice. The evidence the victim ...

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Added: 1/25/2005 06:16:33 PM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Free Paper
Words: 1581
Pages: 6

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