The Red zone campaign is a campaign that bring awareness to student at the university of Regina as far as sexual assault is concern. The campaign is responsible for the establishment of a safe and free environment of all sort of sexual assault or violence. Sexual assault is defined as every sexual acts, with or without physical contact, are sexual assaults when they are committed without the consent of the person. Whether a kiss, touching, oral-genital contact (oral sex and cunnilingus), penetration (vaginal or sodomy), voyeurism, sexual harassment or rubbing. First, sexual assault is a problem because it goes beyond a person's rights and freedoms and ignores their will. Moreover, at the moment when this act is produced, several consequences …show more content…
result from it and certain social issues are connected to it, which makes it a problematic. This sexual issue is a form of social control. The attacks are mainly committed on women. In fact, according to Canadian Women’s Foundations, 82% of victims are women and in 98% of cases reported to the police, the perpetrator was male. As a result, we try to keep women in fear and in unequal power relations with men, which feeds the stereotype where men are better than women. This causes a major social problem when men think they are more important, where they think they have more value as a citizen. The woman is then perceived as an object that can be controlled and as inferior to the man. It is important to situate sexual assault as part of the broader issue of violence against women. The campaign reveal that there is a huge epidemic of sexual assault that is not declining in fact and that sexual violence used to remains and still remains underestimated, unrecognized, unidentified, often denied or even tolerated by society that is still highly unequal and discriminating in relation to women and that conveys many prejudices about sexuality (with a confusion between sexuality and violence, confusion between desire and stress-related arousal, with a sexual vocabulary belonging to the war registry, a majority of sexual insults, a banalization of sexual violence against women such as prostitution and pornography).
Through this campaign the university of Regina is willing to deal with this issue accordingly by providing a secure environment where university members can feel at home, protected, works safely, teach, live, learn safely while not having to worry about someone violating their integrity and dignity without their consent. They also want to create an environment where reporting sexual assault is safe and comfortable as well as educating people about prevention activities related to sexual assault. As we can see, sexual violence has a catastrophic impact on the quality of life of victims, with a deterioration of their personal, family, friendly, loving, social, academic and professional lives, so providing a safe environment can minimize these consequences (Uregina.ca, …show more content…
2018.) It is important to situate sexual aggression as part of the broader socio-cultural issue of violence against women in Saskatchewan, which is at the heart of our society, which through its history has perpetuated unequal relationships between men and women.
Many myths and prejudices are maintained in our society about the notion of sexual aggression. The red zone campaign is the right outlet and one of the only way to solve this epidemic in Regina or Saskatchewan by bringing awareness to members of university of Regina community where every community member can express themselves in an environment free of any kind of offence or violence that make other people’s life
uncomfortable. Although all women are likely to experience sexual assault one day, it is reported that some women are more vulnerable to abuse. Other forms of discrimination may be added to the sexism that women live in our society, such as being part of a visible minority or being Aboriginal, living with a physical disability or intellectual disability, and being lesbian-bisexual. There are many biases about women living in special circumstances, such as those with a mental health problem. Prejudices that can make these women vulnerable to sexual violence. To conclude, Violence against women affects all groups in Canadian society. It occurs in public, in the family and between intimate partners, and can strike women at any stage of their lives. This is a complex problem that is related to women's equality in society. Ethnicity, culture, age, type of relationship and economic status can all influence the rate and consequences of violence against women. True justice for rape victims will when everybody in society decide to take the issue more serious and become concern about lowering the massive rape culture rate that is increasing everyday.
The trial of 19 year old Owen Laurie has brought into light the alarming rate in which Sexual assault is rising. The issue that rages on in Colleges is said to be making its way to high schools and primary school. In a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Division of Violence Prevention, 19% of Undergraduate women experienced
Sexual assault is the act of sexual intercourse without consent of the other person according to the New South Wales Consolidation Act of 1900 (Austlii 2011) and is also described by the Australian Standard Offence Classification as ‘non-consensual’ acts or intents of sexual nature (ASOC 2008, p. 31). It has become one of the most predominate crimes creating social harm in Australia. Social harm is defined as the negative influence through consequences impacting the individual on the living conditions of the surrounding public (Cain & Howe 2008, p. 26). Sexual assault poses a social threat to all aspects of the community, spreading insecurity in the 9000 victims across Australia and 1900 victims in NSW alone as indicated in the Australian Bureau of Statistics Crime Victimisation Report (ABS 2011, p. 40). This is supported by the victimization rate of all sexually assaulted victims between ages 10 to 14 being 4 times greater than all the other age groups (ABS 2010).
Sexual Assault on campus has become an epidemic, for many different reasons but one major factor that contributes is when a sexual assault occurs on a University and nothing is done. By allowing the perpetrator to get away with his or her crime your “Okaying” them and in a way giving approval which can lead
Sexual assault is defined as “any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient.” (“Sexual Assault”, 2nd heading). An average of 237,868 Americans (ages 12+) are sexually assaulted per year. This translates to an american being sexually assaulted every two minutes. This does not even include all of the children who are victims of sexual assault. The government has tried to combat these appallingly high statistics with various pieces of legislature, including Title IX.
According to Campus Sexual Assault: Suggested Policies and Procedures “the consequences of sexual assault can be very serious.” This means that it can lead to many outcomes which one could be hospitalization. The effects on sexual assault on a person can be very traumatic and it can be difficult for some people to overcome it. Another concern that they have stated is pregnancy, STD’s and HIV. The reason they are concerned about this which could certainties be a consequence of sexual assault is because not many girls want to go through with this because they were violated and they might not be able to take care of this child well. They might have to worry if they got an STD’s from them because they might as well have a sexual transmitted disease and who knows where this person went. HIV is the biggest consequences because as yet they couldn’t have found a cure and it is not curable at all so they are stuck with HIV for rest of their
In order to deal with the occurrence of sexual assault in our society, we must examine its causes more deeply. We must understand the sociology of sexualized violence in order to effectively explain its groups and individual dynamics.
According to RAINN, (2009) approximately 10 per cent of all victims of sexual assault and abuse are adult and juvenile males. In terms of the nature of assault, real figures include a compendium of reported incidents ranging from unwanted sexual touching to forced penetration. To qualify this statement, it must be understood that the percentage does not reflect a vast number of crimes that go unreported due to issues that will be discussed in the present paper.
For the case of physical assault she believes the response would be “swift and merciless” with the involvement of police. While it may seem to be black and white the issue of sexual assault falls deeply into a gray-zone, as victims are to emotionally damaged to testify or refuse to turn to police for help. Thus, new federal guidelines, which implement climate surveys and training sessions. These steps attempt to right the major problem, which is the campus culture, not the clubs. Flanagan’s piece is quick to generalize as she compares the “final clubs” to the greek letter organizations at major schools. This generalization fails as the total population of the greek systems at major state schools completely outnumbers many private universities, especially a small highly selective one such as
Assault is a noteworthy legitimate and societal issue over the world. Here are some key statistics about sexual brutality:
In this research paper, we will evaluate how sexual assault is handled on a college campus. What system is used and how does it
Sexual assault is defined as any type of sexual contact or behavior that occurs without the explicit consent of the recipient. Falling under the definition of sexual assault are sexual activities as forced sexual intercourse, forcible sodomy, child molestation, incest, fondling, and In the United States 80% of sexual assault victims are under the age of 30. Of that 80%, 44% are under the age of 18 (RAINN, 2016). That leaves 36% of victims between the ages of 18 and 30. These percentages become even more alarming when that 80% is of about 293,000 victims of secual assualt each year (RAINN, 2016). It is estimated that 1 in every 6 women in the US has been or will be victims of sexual assault in their lifetime. The risks of sexual assault increase on college campuses. Women ages 18-24 who are enrolled in college are 3 times more likely than women in general to suffer from sexual violence (RAINN, 2016). One would think that with all these women being sexually assaulted, one would hear more about it, or perhaps the police stations would constantly be busy. This is not the case. Sexual assault is one of the most unreported crimes, with 68% still being left unreported (RAINN, 2016). This could be because of every 100 rapists, only 2 will spend a day in jail. Of the 32 out of 100 that would be reported, only 7 are referred to an arrest (RAINN, 2016). Why would men or women want to report sexual assault when the system that is supposed to protect them fails so often, and why does this system continue to fail?
Rape is currently on the rise on American college campuses and it is the most common committed crime among college students today. In their time in college 1 out of every 5 women and 1 out of every 71 men will experience some form of sexual harassment as reported by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center. These numbers are growing each year and have raised a lot of concern in the administrative level of higher education institutions. In an effort to try and prevent these occurrences universities have begun to implement mandatory curriculum to educate students on the subject and have even begun to hold campus wide events and create clubs to spread awareness and show support because of the repetitive nature of this crime. While it is good
Every semester, a student attending a college campus will have at some point experience some inappropriate, unwanted attention. There is always someone at school who tends to make someone uncomfortable, be it through eye contact, persistent advances, or just uncalled for innuendos. Of course, we do our best to ignore it, or to just report the bothersome activity, but that can only do so much without someone finding a way around such things. Someone is always going the extra mile to get what he or she wants, even if it’s at the expense of the victim. We can’t turn a blind eye on our friends, our family, or our associates in these dark, sexual assault situation. Campus sexual assault is a problem with plenty of factors regarding it.
According to a statement addressing the sexual victimization of college women The Crime and Victimization in America states that, “ One out of four women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.” This disturbing fact has not minimized throughout the years, instead it is continuing to worsen throughout college campuses. Sexual assault is not an act to be taken lightly. Society must stop pinpointing the individuals who commit these crimes one by one, but rather look at the problem as a whole and begin to understand the main cause of sexual assault and possible methods to reduce these acts of sexual coercion.
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