The brothel boy is the main suspect when a local 12 year old girl is raped. The victim is found naked with a head wound being held by the brothel boy after a group of farmers hear a scream coming from the river. Since he was the only one there the villagers assumed he was the perpetrator. So they formed a mob and tried to get people’s justice by almost beating him to death. This small village is located in Burma before modern times. Many believe that the brothel boy committed this assault because he has worked in the brothel all his life, seeing the acts, and is very undereducated. The villagers are calling that the brothel boy be hanged for his crime because they fear he could do it again if he gets out. The brothel boy’s punishment all comes …show more content…
down to what he will actually be charged with, how they magistrate wants to handle the case from the pressures of the townspeople, and what made the brothel boy rape the little girl. The way brothel boy will be sentenced begins with what model the magistrate will use as a basis for prosecuting.
The two models to use are the due process model and the crime control model. The parable is an example of the due process model. The due process model, as described in the Criminal Justice in America textbook, puts more emphasis on the defendant’s rights and that all the information against them is reliable and they aren’t being wrongly convicted. As opposed to the crime control model that focuses on catching criminals, controlling crime, and prosecuting the offenders. The crime control model is concerned with the speed of prosecution and if they can convict each case. The parable falls into the due process model because of the way the magistrate is handling the case. He knows the townspeople just want the brothel boy to be hung so he could never hurt anyone again. But he tries to talk to the brothel boy to get an understanding of what happened and weighs the options of prosecuting him. The only people who know what happened at the river are the brothel boy and the victim. But since the victim died and nobody will believe the brothel boy who knows what really happened. So …show more content…
the magistrate, using the due process model, has to decide between a death sentence, time in prison, or committing him to the mental hospital. The next step in determining how to punish the brothel boy comes from defining what the crime is. Is the crime an example of mala in se or mala prohibita? Mala in se is defined as offenses that are wrong by their very nature. Examples of mala in se include murder and rape. Mala prohibita is defined as offenses prohibited by law but not wrong in themselves. Examples of mala prohibita are marijuana or prostitution. I believe the crime is an example of mala in se. Because the crime that was committed was rape, it can’t be looked at as “not being wrong in themselves”. Some people consider rape as being the worse crime that anybody could commit. I picked mala in se over mala prohibita because rape can’t be filed away with a ticket or a fine. Those who commit rape deserve to be put in prison. If I were the prosecuting attorney on this case I would charge the brothel boy with forcible rape.
USlegal.com defines forcible rape as the victim is prevented from resisting the sexual act because of the offender’s use of force or threats of physical violence. Since there was about 8 years between them he would have been strong enough to hold her down easily. Amir (1967) states that forcible rape happens once the victim and the offender are drawn together, a process is set in motion whereby victim behavior and the situation which surrounds the encounter will determine the course of events leading to the crime. The brothel boy probably felt that this girl was the only one who genuinely cared about him and was nice to him and wanted to show her that he felt the same way. From constantly being around the actions in the brothel house he believed that that is how to show affection to someone. But because of his lack of education he didn’t know that intercourse required consent from both parties. He couldn’t have figured out that her fighting wasn’t part of the intercourse and that she was trying to get away from
him. I believe that the social structure theory best describes the brothel boy. The social structure theory suggests that criminal behavior is related to their social class. Those who are in the lower class are more likely to commit crimes because they are poorer, less educated, and lack sufficient housing. The brothel boy never stood a chance of having a normal life from the day he was born and his mother died. He didn’t receive an education that told him about how to act in situations and worked around sexual acts that no kid should grow up watching. Lochner and Moretti (2001) state that schooling may alter preferences in indirect ways, which may affect decisions to engage in crime. An example they give for this statement is that education may increase one’s patience or risk aversion. Perhaps if the brothel boy had a better childhood where he was given an education and nurturing then he would have never sexually assaulted that twelve year old girl.
In the beginning of the story one can see the teachings of the children. The children are laughing and playing around collecting stones preparing for the brutal stoning to come. The story describes a cheerful boy, “ducked under his mother’s grasping hand
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 cases, but not all, the male is the adult and the female is the minor. In different places, the law varies. For instance, in some counties, if the difference in age is not at least five years, the court will not even bring the case to trial. But all of the laws everywhere are bias towards men. There is even a saying that says “sixteen will get you twenty.” “Sixteen” is the age of the girl, and “twenty” represents the amount of years a man would be sentenced to serve in jail if he was to have sexual intercourse with her.
This book is full of extraordinary courage, determination and will. Kien was subjected to many injustices, most of which were inflicted by the males in his life and community. Kien’s mother’s boyfriend, Lam, was a cruel man who took advantage of people around him. He raped the family maid, Loan, and he raped Kien as he slept alone at night. Lam was a sociopath and very manipulative, he took advantage of Kien’s family. Kien’s cousins were also cruel to him and his brother. They were poor, and took great joy in tormenting Kien and Jimmy. His cousins were glad to have others around who were considered “lower” then they were. Tormenting Kien’s family made the cousins feel better about themselves. When the boys were given a dog, the cousins kicked it to death while laughing. It was mostly males, but there were also female figures who took part in the violence surrounding him. His aunt was a person who had the power to stop the violence, but she only encouraged it. She got a sense of power by having Kien’s family being so destitute and dependant on her.
All around present day pop culture, the demonstration of prostitution is regularly seen as questionable concerning many different moral issues. Prostitution could be characterized as "To offer (oneself or another) in sexual intercourse for money,” and is normally given as an underground administration. Although the practice is unlawful in most places,it has been denoted as a "suitable" occupation hotspot for some people throughout the world. Most of the people who do tend to sell themselves to others for money are, for the most part, women. However men do sometime turn the wrong way and end up in the streets confused themselves. Prostitution raises numerous moral issues coming about, because of the corrupting of one's body through offering a sexual administration that is broadly accessible. The typical discussion as to whether this form of “making money” is ethically wrong concentrates on if the corrupting of one's body could really be acknowledged as assault, and if the people who partake in prostitution might be perpetually forced into this calling, whether it be bad circumstances or them just being unwilling to find another occupation.
Prostitution is common lewdness for hire, the act or practice of a woman who permits a man who will pay her price to have sexual intercourse with her. It is a universal phenomenon with moral, social, cultural, psychological, medical, and other aspects. Although male prostitution is also found, that involving males exclusively is best considered as part of the general problem of HOMOSEXUALITY.
Rape is non-consensual sexual intercourse that a male performs against a woman whom he is neither married to or cohabiting with. The definition of rape changes by geographic location. In some countries a woman must prove she is pure in order to find the perpetrator guilty. Rape used to be more of a violation to the man than to the women. It was a violation of the man’s rights if his wife or girlfriend was raped. When a woman is raped her devotion to her family is questioned. Rape is a violent act, an act of possession, not a sexual act. The myth that men who rape women are sexually pathological has begun to be dispelled and replaced with an understanding that rape is an act of anger, power and control rather than lust.
The parable begins by describing a man from the country who seeks to obtain “the law”. The man is easily relatable because there are no significant physical or emotional details about him. The man spends a majority of the parable with the doorkeeper. The doorkeeper is described
story is a young boy. The motive to kill is that he sees the boy’s
The young boy is taken to work in a field and beaten when he does not perform to his master’s expectations. The Asian man is underground forced to work in a dirty mine with unsafe working conditions. The woman becomes a maid and is severely punished for dropping the silver. A narrator tells the three people’s stories of how they were tricked into slavery.
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In the today’s society, social media has gone out of hand. Most people these days have a cell phone, Ipad and/or laptop and most definitely a television at their home. Therefore, access to pornography has become extremely easy and can be available to any individual in less than 5 minutes. The best definition of pornography can be explained as sexually explicit words or images intended to provoke sexual arousal. The easy access to porn has raised many people to question if porn is harmful, if it should be censored, and if it is unsafe. Many debates have been going on about porn concerning freedom of rights, speech, and entertainment and right of privacy. The main people to have argued on this point are Catherine Mackinnon and philosopher J.S. Mill.
Little do most know, but on “[a]verage [prostitution] arrest[s], court and incarceration costs amount to nearly $2,000 per arrest. Cities spend an average of 7.5 million dollars on prostitution control every year, ranging from 1 million dollars to 23 million dollars.” Prostitution is the oldest known profession. Currently in 49 countries and counting prostitution is legal. Here in America there is a stigma following the label prostitute. We would rather resort to underground markets of sex labor. Endangering health, rights, and economics. Legalizing prostitution can reduce health hazards by giving heath care, also by giving rights to those that choose prostitution as their profession. In the long term this
If there is no consent, it is an assault. It is the right of every human being to have control over their own body. Victim blaming perpetuates the rape culture and the teaching that some people are not responsible for their own actions. Victim blaming does nothing but hurt survivors. No one chooses to be hurt, and the after effects can affect a survivor for years to come.
In the short story “A Hanging” by George Orwell, an execution is about to occur in Burma. A man who is has committed an unnamed crime is about to receive the ultimate punishment of death. The story describes in great detail his short walk to the gallows where he will face his death. Everyone in the prison camp knows what is to come and all have a somber feeling in their hearts. The jail superintendent wants the death to proceed quickly so that the day can go on as normal. As a young magistrate watches the painful walk, he notices the prisoner walks around a puddle. At that point he realizes the prisoner is still human. “This man is not dying, he is just as alive as we are alive,” he says. After the execution, the men all share a drink in laughter with the body hanging only a few yards away.