Unfair Statutory Rape Laws For Teenagers Common sense seems to dictate that statutory rape laws are too tough on teenagers. Most people in our society do not realize that they break the law everyday. It is often said that statutory rape is committed a lot more than the people hear about. Teens that go to the same school as their younger mate, are getting arresting for the consensual interactions that they are doing. Statutory rape is when someone underage is sexually active with an “adult” meaning
According to Merriam Webster statutory rape is the crime of having sex with someone who is younger than an age that is specified by law. Depending on the state the ages vary. The sex could be forcible or not forced. As many know it is considered rape if sexual intercourse is within a four year age difference. However, people may not realize that it is illegal for a seventeen year old and an eighteen year old to have sex under statutory rape laws. Even though the two people are only a year apart
Society’s role in criminalizing statutory rape cases play a big part on how people look at the different cases. In society everyone expects for a younger girl to be with an older guy, so people may not see a priority in statutory rape laws. “Considering that it is customary for women to date and marry slightly older men” (M.W., 1998). Since it is not abnormal for younger girls and older guys to be together most people do not see an age gap of about three years that big of a deal. But if these people
Statutory Rape Laws Even though it is not possible for someone other than the two people who were in the situation to know what really happened, the penalties for statutory rape should be dependent upon the individual case because it would protect the kids’ futures and help keep a balance between the serious and the less invasive crimes. In the United States 1.3 women are raped every minute, 78 rapes each hour, 1,872 rapes each day, and the total devastating, number of 683,280 rapes each year. This
The statutory rape law states that having sexual intercourse or being involved sexually in any form with a child below the age of sixteen is unlawful and could have charges pressed against as well as face imprisonment in a state prison or correctional facility. The law also states that one gender isn’t recognized more than the other; under the law children should be protected equally. Statutory rape is sex that occurs between an adult and a minor; an adult eighteen years or older and a minor is considered
Good Intentions Lead to Nowhere The first statutory rape laws were originally established in England in 1275 to protect young ones from sexual violence from older predators. This original law set in England was set at the age of marriage, which at the time was 12. Anyone who was sexually involved with a person under the age of 12 was to be criminalized, whether there was consent from both parties or not (Robertson). Statutory rape laws are often referred to as age of consent laws. As the nick name
responses to statutory rape training guide, “Law enforcement often assigns statutory rape cases a much lower priority than incest and forcible rape cases with young children. There is a belief among criminal justice officials that investigation and arrest are a waste of time because prosecutors will not prosecute except in most egregious cases” (Elstein & Smith, 1998). Statutory rape laws should be just as much of a priority as child abuse and forcible rape. Throwing away statutory rape cases is not
The concept of rape is black and white. The concept of statutory rape, is more intricate. A man or woman who have nonconsenting relations with a minor should be incarcerated and prosecuted. If a juvenile has relations with a minor, should the juvenile receive the same punishment? What if the minor gives consent, should the adult still be prosecuted? Both types of statutory rape have an outcome similar to one another, which result in either physical, mental, or emotional pain or damage to the nonconsenting
Statutory Rape Laws The term “statutory rape” is used when the government considers people under a certain age to be unable to give consent to sex and therefore consider sexual contact with them to be a rape. The age at which individuals are considered to give consent is called the age of consent. The age of consent can ranging from thirteen to twenty-one, depending on the limits set by each state in accordance with local standards of morality. Even sex that violates the age-of-consent laws but
1102 In the century that we are living in, when people hear the term statutory rape it only means one thing, one grown man and a teenage girl having sexual relations. But what if I tell you that statutory rape has way more complications then that. Would you believe me? What if I tell you that the law of statutory rape should be reviewed and revise because it is confusing, bias and unfair. Would you be on my side? When statutory rape is brought up people never thinks about what happened to the two teens
the laws surrounding statutory rape. Although the laws are in place to help people, many people see them as unfair and they believe that there are changes that could be made to help improve these laws. A major problem with statutory rape laws is that each state has a different law. To help improve statutory rape laws, all states should work together to have a set of country-wide laws, so that the states all have the same laws. With a few minor improvements, the statutory rape laws would be problem
In this scenario, it seems as if John will be charged with Statutory rape. The young lady that came out the bar and was going back to his dorm said she was 16. Statutory rape is sexual intercourse with a minor. Even though she said she was 16, she was really 19. So the girl was not underage and could in fact consent for herself. His defense will be she is not underage. As goes for John, the female who was 19 and the 250 pound baby tiger that walked out of the improperly latched cage nothing happened
Debra Lafave Debra Lafave, who also is known as Debra Jean Beasley, was former school teacher at Angelo L Greco Middle School, which is located in Temple Terrace, Florida. She made headline news when she crossed the line of teacher to sex offender after it came to light that she was having a sexual relationship with one of her students who was fourteen-years-old. At the time this occurred, Debra was twenty-four and married. She was charged with lewd or lascivious battery on a minor. Now why would
In this research paper I will be talking about whether it’s right or wrong to have victimless crimes including statutory rape, prostitution and pornography. Should these crimes be free of government interference? Also I will discuss their definitions and all of the possible punishments to offenders. Finally, I will consider what happens when the people who commit these crimes gets away. Victimless crimes usually involve one person who allows themselves to be the target of a crime in exchange for
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this case is about Michael Goodman whom has been charged for statutory rape.Growing up, Michael had a rough childhood. His mother had him at a very young age with no support. Him and his mother lived in a car for 4 year and wandered from house to house for another 2 years. At a very young age, Michael was exposed to a variety of drugs. It was not until his 10th birthday when his mother remarried He then became an older brother and his life stabilized for a while
Many do not understand the true meaning behind statutory rape. So many factors go into the law that it would take a book to recognize them all. The legal definition for statutory rape is “sexual intercourse by an adult with a person below the statutorily designated age of 12” (Hill). The law was first written to have said that only a female could be a victim of statutory rape, but was later revised that it was either sex that could be a victim of this. But when you really think about it, is this
and a minor are forbidden by law in certain places. Statutory rape laws are discriminatory to boys and patronizing to girls because the men who violate these laws sometimes receive extreme or excessive punishments from the courts, are portrayed as predators of young women, and the girls are looked at as weak and incapable of consenting to sex. When someone who is eighteen years or older has sexual intercourse with a minor it is considered rape regardless to if the sex is consensual or not. In most
law, having sex, assault or anything of nature, with an underage person (minor) is, consider statutory rape. Even if the sex may not be forced or compelled, it is legally looked at as a nonconsensual under the statutory rape law code. Different states address sex with minors differently, based on the current statutory rape law, some states are working diligently to enhance the way the carryout statutory rape laws to offenders’ while some are lacking extremely on the issue, which are leading to some
Statutory rape is when an adult has sexual intercourse with a minor. Every two minutes someone in the U.S is sexually assaulted. There are also many cases of statutory rape, but how many of these statutory rape cases are legitimate? Some people say statutory rape laws are discriminating to males, and in some cases it is, just because they are the adult. Should laws concerning statutory rape be changed depending on the backstory of the case? Or should they continue the same way, and keep punishing
fantasies Statutory rape law in particular is discriminating to boys and very patronizing to girls, throughout my research I have found many studies where women teachers and coaches getting away with being involved with their students ranging from anywhere