Assault Article Reviews Samples For Students

Sexual assault is an assault of sexual nature or sexual act directed on another person without their consent. Most Sexual assaults are committed by men towards women but it may also involve man to man, woman to man, woman to woman or even towards children. The term sexual assault may be defined as an involuntary sexual act in which a person could be threatened, coerced or even forced to engage in sex against their consent or any sexual touching of a person against their will.
Rape is a form of sexual assault in which there is intercourse or actual penetration either ...

The article Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault: College Women’s Risk Perception and Behavioral Choices (2008) was published in the 57th volume of Journal of American College Health in Miami, Florida. Written by Miami University professors Zachary Birchmeier, Emily Crawford, and Margaret O’Dougherty, the paper discusses the study they made on drug-facilitated sexual assault of female college students.

This article was chosen for this review because date rape is one of the topics discussed in class. Also, statistics show that 1 out of 5 college women are raped in their college years (Birchmeier, Crawford, and O’Dougherty, 2008). However, most ...

The analyzed research paper is not an experiment, but a review of statutes regulating sexual assaults, with the statutes being taken from all 50 states. Since this paper does not test any theory, its authors did not develop any hypothesis to test. However, they have outlined the purpose of the review, which is to determine how these statutes are applicable, effective and relevant to campus sexual assaults.
The researchers’ main expectation was to find gaps and possibilities of improvement of state legislation regarding the regulation of campus sexual assault to reduce its instances. Since the researchers did not suggest ...

Introduction

The article written by Auberbach for the USA Today gives a comprehensive description of the situation of domestic violence and sexual assault in American Football particularly within the elite players (Auberbach, 2015). The current problem that this sport faces, which includes university teams as a brand, coaches, and players, is the growing stigma that football players are violent and tend to beat and sexually assault women. Due to several cases of star players that were found guilty of these charges, increased the bad press of this sport. Furthermore, coaches are facing a potential job loss, and universities are being ...

Summary

This article provides insight regarding the comparison between associations that are highly likely to expose women to the risk of being raped and surroundings where the probability of rape is lower. From the start, the authors observe that people do not understand the rape culture. The article begins the article by presenting information that defines what rape culture is. It presents rape culture as the beliefs and values that change surroundings into areas that are conducive for rapes to occur. The authors imply that a proper understanding of the rape culture plays an important role in changing the attitude ...

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Arguing over Images: Native American Mascots and Race
Many universities and other schools in the U.S. use the American Indian's motives as their symbols or mascots. This paper aims at collecting and analyzing regular people's views on these symbols and mascots. People assign some meanings to these mascots and their comprehension are based on their believes and some other cultural factors.
Mostly animal symbols of the Indian Americans are used as mascots. Just a few mascots are designed to tease the Indian Americans by using caricaturized versions of the symbols. The interviewers do not have a perfect information of ...

In the past few years, various types of research have been done on the new and arising issue of drinking of young adult in New Zealand. This hazardous drinking, mainly apparent among the youths who are mostly young adult students in New Zealand is a public-health concern. The issue has raised a lot of questions and a need to look into the matter of discipline among these students. Too often daily headlines bring news of another tragedy of a young adult involved in alcohol-related behavior, either a case of excessive alcoholic poisoning on the campus or as a result of recklessness and other bad behavior ...

The area covered by the lecture is Trots in Aviation Law. The various topics covered in the lecture for include Strict Liability in consideration with Civil Aviation regulations, duties of a pilot in flight and pre-flight, duties of the air traffic controller, duties of the maintenance engineer, the three categories of trespass, and nuisance.
The elements of the lecture cover the duties of the pilot including responsibilities of a pilot in command of an aircraft, responsibilities before the actual commencement of the flight, analysis of pre-flight data, safety of passengers, safety of cargo, safety of crewmembers, keeping information on ...

The deliberate hostile activity to cause physical harm or mass killing of a targeted population in places like schools, workplaces, places of worship, public gathering is a Hybrid Targeted Violence (HTV). The places of gathering where people have least option to shield themselves are the preferred locations for an HTV action. The weapons used in this kind of violence may be the conventional firearms or other explosive devices. These incidents of atrocity have multi-threat, and often go against the conventional procedural strategies of the relevant agencies of public safety to initiate a rescue or counter the violence. The initial moments are very ...

The article entitled “ACLU Calls for Immediate Resignation of Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Thorough Federal Investigation” published online by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) proffered pertinent issues relative to alleged abuse, brutality, violence and violations to human rights reportedly perpetuated by the deputies of Sheriff Lee Baca to the inmates of the Los Angeles County Jail. As noted, accounts from eyewitnesses, chaplains, and even testimonies from inmates revealed that a culture of violence has been constantly applied to the inmates by the sheriff’s deputies who allegedly allow, inflict, and even encourage “deputy-on-inmate assaults, ...

Monteith and Winters’s article, “Why We Hate,” provides interesting perspectives into why prejudice exists and what can be done about it. If a person speaking to me told me claimed they were not prejudiced, I would be inclined to doubt their claim because, as the article says, people in general have a tendency to “quickly divide the world into ‘us’ and ‘them’” (Monteith and Winters 48). However, I do not think it would be useful to simply respond by saying, “Of course you’re prejudiced, everybody has prejudices.” Rather, I might ask them, “Do you prefer Coke or Pepsi?” When ...

A. What the researcher expected to find

Sexual orientation is an aspect that has raised eyebrows among individuals and also the public at large. It has become an imperative phenomenon in the current empirical attention within the victimology literature. The essence of this study is based on the fact that sexual orientation seems to receive increased rates of victimization mostly among the unfortunate in the society. The study has revealed that there is inadequate psychological outcome, mostly, for the lesbians, gay, bisexual and between the transgender crime victims (LGBT). The researcher tries to take a scrutiny concerning victim sexual orientation in a sample of 641 fatal crimes in ...

According to article, “Early sexual experience and prostitution” by James and Meyerding (1977), Prostitution is defined as the process of providing sexual services with an overall aim of obtaining a compensation for these services provided. The forms of compensations usually take a monetary form but may be modified to suit the prostitute’s needs. For example in modern societies people have been engaging in prostitution in order to acquire a certain favor such as job promotion, employment, protection in term of security and academic issues to mention but a few. The act of prostitution can be adopted by either gender in the society. ...