Rape and Extending the Sentence for Rape

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Rape is a crime that is committed when someone is forced to have sexual intercourse through physical force or duress. “683,000 rapes occur every year” (CVS) and the national average for people accused of rape is eight years in a federal prison. Rape is a serious crime as well as other crimes but rape is considered to be a more serious and heinous crime along with murder etc. There are also different phases of rape that the victim may go through depending on how they handle it. Eight years in prison is not a good amount of time for someone to serve for what they did, all of the things that involve the process of rape should be incorporated into the sentence: force, against someone’s will, and most importantly the physical and emotional trauma that comes along with it that only the victim has to deal with. When someone is raped the person who raped them should receive the amount of years in jail as long as it takes the victim to get over the rape meaning that the court system should allow the victim to decide the criminal’s sentencing based off of if the victim feels safe or not when the attacker is let out of prison. Victims also go through five different stages and those stages can/will have a huge effect on a person’s mental health and they may be considered unstable after the attack. The national average for years served for rape should not be just 8; it should be raised higher on the victim’s behalf.
There are a large amount of symptoms that come from rape, some may have a change in personality and friends and other may choose to drop out of school. Rape can have an effect on people that can harm them for life and for some victims in order for them to get over an attack is if they know that their attacker is incarcerated and w...

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...he criminal should be in the hands of the victim because they are the ones that have to go through the therapy, trauma and all of the other assets that come along with being sexually assaulted and if the victim cannot get over the rape and does not feel safe if their assaulter is not incarnated then they criminal should not be allowed out of prison. The national average for sentencing of rape is not going to end the problem if the victim cannot get over the assault.

Works Cited

"A National Shame." Crime Victim Services (CVS). N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Nov. 2013.
Kilpatrick, Dean G. "Mental Health Impact of Rape." Mental Health Impact of Rape. Medical University of South Carolina, n.d. Web.
"Web Info on Sexual Assault and Abuse." UIC Campus Advocacy Network. UIC, n.d. Web.
Berman, Laura, Dr. "Grieving Stages a Rape Victim Goes Through." Love & Sex n.d.: n. pag. Print.

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