Rape occurs in several different forms. ... Rape affects each victim differently. ... In one study, forty-six percent of rapists who were released from prison were rearrested within three years of their release for another crime . ... Those rapists, obviously, never serve a day in prison. ... So, even in the thirty-nine percent of attacks that are reported to police, there is only a sixteen point eight percent chance the rapist will end up in prison. ...

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What comes to your mind when you see the phrase "rape culture"? ... She was raped by the fun, out-going, everybody gets along with frat boy. ... We are teaching women on how to not be raped rather than teaching men how to not rape. ... In 2003 men accounted for 10 percent of sexual assault victims but most of those men were raped by other men in a prison setting ("5 bizarre"). ... Another question we could ask ourselves is why do men rape? ...

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Some have images of prison as a place where criminals are pushed around; a place where rape and abuse would seem "virtually a fact of life" ("Legislature" 1). ... Rape is rape and is not tolerable. ... When the women in prison try to resist being raped the authoritive figures penalize them for not submitting. ... No person should be raped. ... Controversially though, prisons may then have more problems with homosexual rape. ...

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Rape victims continue to be the best-kept secrets in the nation's newsrooms. ... The decision not to print rape victims" names is a matter of sense and sensibility. ... For every 100 rapes reported in this country, only five rapists end up in prison. ... The top concerns expressed by rape victims were; their families finding out they had been raped, people believing the rapes were their fault, people outside the family learning that they had been raped, and their names being made public by the news media. ... Victims of rape need to realize that it wasn't their fault. ...

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Leo, a career criminal, was later convicted of kidnapping and raping a seven year old girl and eventually hung himself in his prison cell. ... Nearly six months pregnant, Aileen claims that she had been raped by an older man in the neighborhood. ... She claimed that Richard raped her. ... She had been physically abused at the hands of her grandfather and allegedly raped at an early age. ... While in prison, Aileen would frequently refuse meals as she believed the prison guards were trying to poison her. ...

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Trustcott's sentence was commuted and instead he spent 10 years in prison but it wasn't until almost 40 years later that he proclaimed his innocence. ... Lynn Harper was found raped and murdered two days later. ... Then finally the police said they found a bike track near where Harper was raped and murdered. ...

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Pornography Causes Violence In the late Seventies, America became shocked and outraged by the rape, mutilation, and murder of over a dozen young, beautiful girls. ... These same males were less sympathetic to rape victims and were noted less likely to find a defendant guilty of rape (71). ... Men who are drawn into pornography and use it frequently, have also been proven to suggest merciful prison terms for sex offenders (60). ...

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She had no idea she would ever get raped. Often times people plan and think ahead about what they might do if place in an awkward position, but how many people, especially children, think they will ever get raped? ... In most cases, the predator, (in this case Butler) just say they need to talk, and instead rape them! ... They could be just normally talking one minute and then the offender starts raping them the next. " "He stood up, took me by the hand and led me to his bedroom and undressed me," she says. ... And they did just that - with the exception of about 5 minutes, when he then rape...

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This law was put into effect after the violent rape and murder of a little girl named Megan. ... Once Megan was in the house Timmendeuas strangled her with a belt, then began to violently rape and murder her. ... They decided unanimously that Timendequas should get Calloway 2 death by injection instead of life in prison without parole (U.S. ... Since Megan's Law, there were 607,310 cases of rape and other type of sexual assault in 1992 but only345,670 in 1995 which is a drop of more than 30% in Calloway 5 those three years. ...

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