Chapter 5 Outline

Kevin Alsina

Chapter 5 Outline

1. Patterns of Rape: Rapist are poor, blacks are more likely to rape than whites. Rape is mostly interracial, black on black white on white.

a. Planning and Execution: Planning usually entails sweet talk romantic moves, alcoholic beverages or some other means to induce the women to have sex. In some cases where the victim is unknown they are chosen because they seem to be weak or vulnerable

b. Gang Rape: Of all the rape cases 43% were gang rapes. Mostly perpetrators are adolescents are aged 14 to 19.

c. Acquaintance Rape: Compared with their counterparts in stranger rape, the offender in acquaintance or date rape are more likely to use verbal or psychological coercion and less likely to resort to guns and knives. Only 1/3 completely blamed the man for rape. 20% of the raped victims while intoxicated fully blame man. 50% of those raped by force blamed the man completely.

d. Rape Campus:15% of campus women have been sexually assaulted.

1. Consequence of Rape: 

a. Rape is more likely to be a continuing process, in which the survivor keeps on suffering after the rape is over. The response of rape varies from survivor to another.

b.  Most rape survivors go through two phase’s disorganization before gradually and finally regain their ability to live normally. From the immediately following the rape to a few days/weeks thereafter is the acute phase of disorganization. During this time most victims succumb to extreme fear, shock, humiliation, embarrassment, self –blame, or anxiety. After the initial, acute phase is over, survivors generally go through a longer, lingering phase of disorganization, which often lasts for a few months, but may persist for several years.

c.In this phases survivors experience phobic reactions including fear of being alone and fear of sex.

d.The Fear of Being Raped Again: The impact of the second rape is psychological, the impact can as painful or traumatic as that of the first rape by the criminal.

3. The Culture of Rape

a.Treating Women Like Men’s Property.Emphasizes that women are seen as sex objects

b.“Robert Heinser (2009, p.41) agrees that rape was a crime against the economic interest of the father or the husband”

c. Using Women in Men’s Masculinity Contest

d. Men believe that the more women they “hook up” with the more macho they are

e. Men get numerous of women and take it as a sport and competition

4. Global Perspective on Wartime Rape

a. According to history during wartime many women of different race were raped as a punishment, humiliation, and “ethnic cleansing”.

b. Men were sexually assaulted during war time equally to women being raped

c. “All these rapes reflect the universally shared attitude that women are men’s property, the same attitude in the U.S. culture that we have discussed (Farwell, 2004; Lacey, 2004)”