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Sexual Violence Prevention
Victoria L. Banyard, Mary M. Moynihan, and Elizabethe G. Plante conducted a meta-analysis based on 46 studies. They study how exposure to pornographic materials is connected with various negative outcomes such as an increase in sexual violence. A review of the journal "Sexual violence prevention through bystander education: An experimental evaluation," affirms the consistency of the link between sexual aggression behavior and explicit sexual materials.

The recent work of Banyard, Moynihan, and Plante attempts to integrate laboratory experimental strategies and cross-sectional survey studies to give a convincing and useful model of the possible outcomes of explicit sexual materials on behavior and sexually aggressive attitudes. Their studies suggest that men scoring high on some risk factors like higher hyper-masculinity, hostility towards women, a high frequency of hostile and sexual fantasies, a high rate of attraction towards impersonal sex and dominance motivation are likely to get exposure to various explicit materials.….

Sexual Victimization of College Women" by Fisher, Cullen and Turner (2000), considers sexual violence against young women in the United States. College campuses provide rich grounds for such investigation, since there is a large concentration of young women in these locations. Because of the prevelance of almost exclusively young populations on campuses, the authors claim that such young women are at greater risk of sexual assault than others of their age in the general population.
The population included a sample of 4,446 women from 2- or 4-year colleges or universities with an enrollment rate of at laest 1,000, where participants were attending during fall 1996. Surveys were administered telephonically. Both participants and schools were randomly selected. Letters were sent to each participant to explain the purpose and nature of the study. A response rate of 85.6% was obtained.

The study design incorporated a two-stage format of NCVS. First, a series of….

Health Promotion Program Proposal
Sexual violence has been a longstanding issue around the world. Women and children face rape, molestation, sexual assault each year. In the United States alone, the annual national average for rape and sexual assault victims is 288,820 (age 12 or older). While the figures for child molestation may be higher than anticipated, the reported sexual assault cases reveal the majority of victims range from ages 18-34 at 54%. The age group at the highest risk for sexual violence is 12-34. Women are at highest risk of experiencing attempted or completed rape with statistics revealing 1 out of every 6 women in America have been or have almost been raped. Of the rape victims reported, 90% are adult female and 82% of juvenile victims are female (AINN, 2016).

The age range of 16-19 is the more dangerous for a female as they are 400% more likely to be raped….

English Comp
How Pornography Promotes Sexual Violence Against omen

Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access, not to free sensuality from moralistic or parental inhibition.... Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller, Against Our ill: Men, omen and Rape

Defining and regulating pornography has been a difficult task for the United States where free speech is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and is the backbone of what defines us as a free society. ebster's Dictionary defines pornography as: writings, pictures, etc. intended primarily to arouse sexual desire. (Neufeldt et al.) Though different people may argue over the definitions and reasons for pornography "the producers, sellers, and consumers of pornography have a clear understanding of its meaning. For them it is a written or visual product showing sexual anatomy and/or sexual activity designed to….

For instance, according to Begley, "Men who were promiscuous back then were more evolutionarily fit since men who spread their seed widely left more descendants. By similar logic, evolutionary psychologists argued, women who were monogamous were fitter; by being choosy about their mates and picking only those with good genes, they could have healthier children" (2009, p. 52). Although modern men and women may not look like Cro-Magnums, they all want to act like them deep down inside because of these primordial drives. In sum, Begley concludes that, "We all carry genes that led to reproductive success in the Stone Age, and that as a result men are genetically driven to be promiscuous and women to be coy, that men have a biological disposition to rape and to kill mates who cheat on them, and that every human behavior is 'adaptive' -- that is, helpful to reproduction" (emphasis added)….

Violence in Film to Some
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After all, when Marcellus is raped, the audience has witnessed the murder of two college students by Marcellus' hit men, and knows that Marcellus had a former ally thrown off of a roof for an unknown reason. In addition, it is because of Marcellus' orders that Vincent, whom the audience has grown to like, is killed at Butch's house. Marcellus is clearly not a good man, and yet, nothing in the movie suggests that he deserves to be raped by Zed and Maynard. It was significant that Tarantino chose Marcellus, the most criminal person in the movie, as the rape victim. It was even more significant that Tarantino chose Butch, the person with the most motive to see Marcellus injured, as Marcellus' rescuer. ather than dehumanizing people, the violence in the movie humanizes the monstrous Marcellus, both by depicting him as a victim and by showing him getting revenge.….

The company should then establish clear procedures with regard to reporting of cases and the way they are handled, this can be done by establishing a competent body to handle this issue. The last step is enforcement of the policy, when all this is done then the policies will help safeguard the employees and at the same time reducing on company liabilities since there will be few cases to handle.
Who should be responsible?

Most companies have handed over the responsibility of protecting employees against sexual harassment to the employees themselves claiming that it is them who allow it to happen. Similarly, many individuals have raised the same argument and made recommendations supporting such a move. This should not be the case and is actually one of the factors that have led to the widespread of this vice. Matters are made worse when individuals are given the task of collecting evidence….

Violence at Schools in South
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..This perspective is from the U.S.A.; in Europe, violence in school and the concern about violence may not be at similar levels, but it is undoubtedly a topic of major concern (Smith, 2003, p. 1).
This article also makes the important point that school is intended as a developmental and educational environment and that violence in its various forms negatively effects and detracts from the goals of education.

Another general work that adds to the underlying body of knowledge on this topic is Stealing the Show? Crime and Its Impact in Post-Apartheid South Africa by Mark Shaw and Peter Gastrow (2001). Among others, this study makes a cogent assessment of the way that crime and violence is measured and reported in South Africa.

Most researchers assume that official crime statistics -- that is, those collected and released by the South African Police Service -- provide a poor indication of levels of crime in….

Table of Contents I.  Opening
II.  Titles
III.  Related Topics
IV.  Outline
V.  Introduction
VI.  Essay Hook
VII.  Thesis Statement
VIII. Body
A.  Background
B.  Harvey Weinstein
C.  Other Accusations
IX.  Conclusion
X.  Works Cited
XI.  Closing

Opening
In this essay about Sexual Misconduct and the Fall of Hollywood, we examine how the allegations of sexual impropriety by some of Hollywood’s power players has led to a major shake-up in the entertainment industry.  This essay will contain a list of some of the Hollywood players accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault, the allegations against them, and at least partial lists of their known accusers.  The essay will also delve into an examination of the casting couch phenomenon.  Although these sexual misconduct allegations may have come as a surprise to much of middle America, there is substantial evidence that many of Hollywood’s rich and powerful were well aware of the sexual abuse and failed to use their positions to protect the vulnerable.  This example essay will….

Sexual Assault Treatment Center
Describe the social problem for the community

Sexual assault is a criminal sexual act, either physical or otherwise, committed by a perpetrator against a victim (usually a child) using physical, intimidation/force, or emotional manipulation. Sexual assault subjects the victim to the perpetrator's demands through use of coercion, force, manipulation or explicit/implicit threats. Sexual assault is considered criminal because the act is committed against a victim without seeking his or her consent. Sexual assaults are also considered wrong and criminal regardless of the relationship between the perpetrator and the victim or the religion, culture, sex, sexual orientation or age of the victim. In case the victim is a child, sexual assault is termed as sexual abuse. In sexual abuse an adult uses his or her position of power to satisfy their desires. As mentioned earlier, sexual assault can be with or without physical contact and it may involve anything….

Sexual Predators Prosecution
TOO HARSH AND DISADVANTAGEOUS

Sexual Predators' Prosecution

Sexual predators are persons who sexually victimize other persons (ILGA, 2009). They may be rapists, molesters, peeping toms or sexual deviants. A sexual deviant is convicted for rape, attempted rape, child molestation or abuse, incest, sodomy or indecent sexual assault or exposure. A judge may, however, convict a sexual predator for a crime unrelated to the sexual act. If the offender takes a child from home without parental consent, he may be convicted for kidnapping. As of 2009, 17 States have laws that penalize sexual predators, specifically a sub-class of sexually violent predators or SVP. Of these 17, Illinois adopted and enforces the broadest definition of SVP as sex offenders who victimize persons below 18 years old, regardless of past convictions. The other 16 define SVPs as those who victimize others below 12 years old and who have prior sex convictions and/or whose….

Every aspect of sociology is somehow affected by sexual politics and this can be seen in every postmodern representation of sexuality. Media is particularly dependant on sexual politics as a thematic representation and as a guiding force for human emotion. This is particularly true with regard to dramatic representations in film. The two films discussed above can be seen as examples of this thesis and illuminate both postmodernism and sexual politics in the modern world.
orks Cited

Cohen, Eric S. "To onder Again." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life May 2000: 23.

Films That Go Thud; Some Actors Can Survive Bomb or Two." The ashington Times 5 Aug. 2003: B05.

Green, J. Ronald. "Always Already: Affinities between Art and Film." Afterimage 25.5 (1998): 8.

Hausladen, Gary J., and Paul F. Starrs. "L.A. Noir." Journal of Cultural Geography 23.1 (2005): 43.

Kipnis, Laura. Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy….

2010). That said, Perry notes that "we know surprisingly little" about whether the training actually creates "positive change"; and given that lack of specific knowledge, the authors present what they call the "best training practices" that are available for HR departments and managers (187).
The "best practices" factors that have proven successful in preparing HR professionals in matters of sexual harassment include: a) "Pre-training factors" (an assessment of who needs the training; how will the training take place; and what will the content be); b) "Training Design and Delivery Factors" (this is an area where there is no one good answer; in some situations "passive" methods might be best and in other situations "experiential" methods might be better); and c) "Post-training Factors" (once learning has taken place, thee needs to be "reinforcement" to keep trainees motivated to use what they learned during the training exercises (Perry, 190).

Meanwhile, Canada certainly hasn't….

Violence and Victims
Journal: "Violence and Victims" by Springer Publishing Company

Violence and Victims is a social work journal that informs "clinical decisions, legal actions and public policy" (Springer Publishing, 2011). It is a peer-reviewed journal that includes subject matter on "theory, research, policy, and clinical practice in the area of interpersonal violence and victimization" across a myriad of professional disciplines to the likes of medicine, law, sociology, psychology and social work (Springer Publishing, 2011). Some important topics, issues and questions that are discussed include subjects like how to assess a violent offender, how to counsel victims of violence, among other topics.

The editors of this journal include a myriad of different doctors from all over the United States. The editor-in-chief is from the University of Washington of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute, while others that are associate editors and on the editorial and advisory board are various individuals with university and….

Sexual Harassment
The term sexual harassment refers to unreasonable intrusion into a person's personal space in relation to comments or actions of a sexual nature. There are laws dating back to the 1960s under the Civil ights Act that target this issue in the workplace. This law was enacted to prohibit this type of behavior at work in addition to providing a framework or guidelines for employers to resolve the issue. There are several types of harassment considered unlawful and the focus here is to understand and determine how employees can respond to sexual actions in the workplace that create a hostile work environment (Employment Law 2011).

There are several circumstances in the workplace where sexual advances or comments are considered inappropriate, unreasonable, even hostile according to Employment and the Law (2011). Comments that repeat innuendo of a sexual nature such as dirty jokes, lewdness or slurs against the opposite or same….

Pornography is a controversial topic.  Discussions of pornography incorporate issues of free speech, morality, women’s rights, sexual violence, domestic violence, and misogyny.  Many people believe that images of pornography are harmful and degrading, even if the pornography is not violent. However, the issues are not as clear-cut as they seem at first glance. Many people believe that pornography has some positive benefits that go beyond any thrills it offers. 

Here are some essay titles and topics to explore: 

  1. Does Porn Cause Rape? 
  2. Pornography and Erectile Dysfunction
  3. Socially Active Smut 
  4. Erotica and Pornography: Same Thing, Different Name, or Two Different....

## Thesis Statements on Feminism and International Security: Examining Women's Roles in War and Peace

Thesis Statement 1:

Feminism challenges traditional understandings of gender roles in international security by recognizing women's experiences and contributions in both conflict and peacebuilding.

Thesis Statement 2:

The inclusion of women in peace negotiations and decision-making processes enhances the effectiveness and sustainability of peace agreements.

Thesis Statement 3:

Militarized masculinities perpetuate gendered power imbalances and contribute to the escalation and protraction of armed conflicts.

Thesis Statement 4:

Feminist approaches to security prioritize human security, addressing the needs of marginalized groups, including women, and emphasizing non-violent conflict resolution.

Thesis Statement 5:

....

Yes, here are a few recent news articles related to gender roles and rape that could make for interesting essay topics:

1. The #MeToo movement and its impact on changing traditional gender roles and perceptions surrounding rape and sexual assault.

2. A recent study showing how traditional gender roles contribute to victim blaming and the underreporting of rape cases.

3. The controversy surrounding the sentencing of convicted rapists and how societal perceptions of gender roles may influence these decisions.

4. The portrayal of rape and sexual assault in popular media and how it reinforces or challenges traditional gender roles.

5. The intersection of race, gender,....

1. The role of power dynamics in sexual violence: How do issues of power and control contribute to acts of sexual violence?

2. The intersectionality of sexual violence: How do factors such as race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status intersect to shape experiences of sexual violence?

3. The impact of rape culture on attitudes towards sexual violence: How does the normalization of sexual violence in society contribute to victim blaming and perpetuate rape culture?

4. Addressing the stigma and shame surrounding sexual violence: How can we work to destigmatize survivors' experiences and create a supportive and understanding environment for them to come forward?

5.....

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Literature Review

Women's Issues - Sexuality

Sexual Violence Prevention

Words: 650
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Literature Review

Sexual Violence Prevention Victoria L. Banyard, Mary M. Moynihan, and Elizabethe G. Plante conducted a meta-analysis based on 46 studies. They study how exposure to pornographic materials is connected with…

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Literature Review

Sports - Women

Sexual Violence Prevention

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Length: 2 Pages
Type: Literature Review

Sexual Victimization of College Women" by Fisher, Cullen and Turner (2000), considers sexual violence against young women in the United States. College campuses provide rich grounds for such…

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Essay

Health - Nursing

Sexual Violence Health Program

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Length: 10 Pages
Type: Essay

Health Promotion Program Proposal Sexual violence has been a longstanding issue around the world. Women and children face rape, molestation, sexual assault each year. In the United States alone, the…

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Term Paper

Women's Issues - Sexuality

How it Promotes Sexual Violence

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Length: 12 Pages
Type: Term Paper

English Comp How Pornography Promotes Sexual Violence Against omen Pornography, like rape, is a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access, not…

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Research Paper

Women's Issues - Sexuality

Sexual Factors That May Affect

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Length: 10 Pages
Type: Research Paper

For instance, according to Begley, "Men who were promiscuous back then were more evolutionarily fit since men who spread their seed widely left more descendants. By similar logic,…

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Term Paper

Film

Violence in Film to Some

Words: 1551
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

After all, when Marcellus is raped, the audience has witnessed the murder of two college students by Marcellus' hit men, and knows that Marcellus had a former ally…

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Research Paper

Careers

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

Words: 1971
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Research Paper

The company should then establish clear procedures with regard to reporting of cases and the way they are handled, this can be done by establishing a competent body…

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Term Paper

Criminal Justice

Violence at Schools in South

Words: 4378
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Term Paper

..This perspective is from the U.S.A.; in Europe, violence in school and the concern about violence may not be at similar levels, but it is undoubtedly a topic of…

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Sexual Misconduct and the Fall of Hollywood Essay

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Length: Pages
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Table of Contents I.  Opening II.  Titles III.  Related Topics IV.  Outline V.  Introduction VI.  Essay Hook VII.  Thesis Statement VIII. Body A.  Background B.  Harvey Weinstein C.  Other Accusations IX.  Conclusion X.  Works Cited XI.  Closing Opening In this essay about Sexual Misconduct…

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Capstone Project

Psychology

Analyzing Sexual Assualt Treatment Center

Words: 5492
Length: 14 Pages
Type: Capstone Project

Sexual Assault Treatment Center Describe the social problem for the community Sexual assault is a criminal sexual act, either physical or otherwise, committed by a perpetrator against a victim (usually a…

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Thesis

Criminal Justice

Sexual Predators Prosecution Too Harsh and Disadvantageous

Words: 957
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Thesis

Sexual Predators Prosecution TOO HARSH AND DISADVANTAGEOUS Sexual Predators' Prosecution Sexual predators are persons who sexually victimize other persons (ILGA, 2009). They may be rapists, molesters, peeping toms or sexual deviants. A…

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Term Paper

Film

Sexual Politics Loom Large in

Words: 1509
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Every aspect of sociology is somehow affected by sexual politics and this can be seen in every postmodern representation of sexuality. Media is particularly dependant on sexual politics…

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Essay

Careers

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Training Is Vital

Words: 1419
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

2010). That said, Perry notes that "we know surprisingly little" about whether the training actually creates "positive change"; and given that lack of specific knowledge, the authors present…

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Essay

Teaching

Violence and Victims Journal Violence and Victims

Words: 2270
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Essay

Violence and Victims Journal: "Violence and Victims" by Springer Publishing Company Violence and Victims is a social work journal that informs "clinical decisions, legal actions and public policy" (Springer Publishing, 2011).…

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Essay

Women's Issues - Sexuality

Sexual Harassment the Term Sexual Harassment Refers

Words: 1386
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Sexual Harassment The term sexual harassment refers to unreasonable intrusion into a person's personal space in relation to comments or actions of a sexual nature. There are laws dating back…

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