According to Uwujaren and Utt (2015), intersectionality is the connected nature of race, class and gender. These categories apply to any individual or group and are interdependent systems of oppression and discrimination (p.2). By applying an intersectional view to men and women, we can see that race and normative femininity both play large roles in how people are treated when they are victims or offenders of crime. Chann and Chunn (2014) state that racialized men and women are assumed to be more likely to commit crimes and less likely to be viewed as “real victims” compared to white men and women. That being said, the concepts of intersectionality, racialization and normatively femininity are apparent in the media attention to the cases of…
In some schools across America, the mass murder of Native Americans in California during the nineteenth century is taught as an inevitable, necessary evil (Discussion). However, this notion is false. The mass murder of the Native Americans was systematic and calculated, carried out by white settlers through attacks on the lives, livelihoods, homes, and cultures of the natives. According to both Raphael Lemkin and the United Nations, these actions were genocidal. In the work, Murder State, by Brendan Lindsay, Lindsay, using the definitions created by Lemkin and the United Nations, effectively categorizes this mass extermination of the Native Americans in California as a genocide.…
“Murder at the Margin” starts off with a professor from Harvard University Henry Spearman, who taught economics, him and his wife both, were going on vacation to Cinnamon Bay. While on a ferry that was taking them to the island, they meet an old coworker, Professor Mathew Dyke who teaches theology at Harvard. While the Spearman’s were on the islands they meet different type of people. They met a Supreme Court retiree Justice Foote and his wife. Then Mr. and Mrs. Doakes but Mr. Doakes had a strange breakfast ritual.…
Likewise, the Cambodian genocide also had countless murders take place. In the same P.P.U.I. article, it states that, “Civilian deaths in this period, from executions, disease, exhaustion and starvation, have been estimated at well over 2 [million] (“Cambodia 1975”).” The majority of the population was put into farms to work as laborers and were starved and tortured.…
much outside the local press. This supports the overriding conceptions of appropriate and ideal victims. The young girls were archetypal ‘ideal victims’, as they were bright, young girls from devoted, middle-class domestic backgrounds, each holding model school records. Whereas, ‘David’ and ‘Patrick’ were both ‘working class young boys who had grown up on a rough West Midlands council estate’, the boys had been troublesome within school and ‘David’, had been caught stealing. While ‘Holly’ and ‘Jessica’ grasped the hearts of a nation, being noted in such widespread news reports, ‘Patrick’ and ‘David’’ did not appeal the same media or public interest.…
During World War II, Japan committed countless crimes against the civilians of the nations they occupied, from the Nanjing Massacre to the issue of comfort women were few of the most major crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Nanjing Massacre involved the mass murder of 300,000 people and the rape of around 20,000 women. During this duration of time, the comfort women were also introduced, which involved the forced prostitution of Asian women from the Philippines, Korea and China to “pleasure” the needs of the Japanese soldiers. Although heinous, the Japanese history textbooks has been found to deliberately downplay their wartime crimes, or outright omit the existence of the crime. Its Asian neighbors remembers it as an indisputable…
In Source 3 it tells us about several things on females and about how restricted the physical integrity is. Firstly, the attitude towards violence tells us the percentage of women who think it is alright for a husband or partner has a right to beat his partner or wife under certain circumstances, which is 0.15 percent of women. Secondly, the prevalence of domestic violence means the widespread of domestic violence and according to the data, 0.31% of women have experienced domestic violence. Laws addressing rape 0.25 means that there is a specific legislation, marital rape is included and perpetrators cannot escape prosecution if they marry the victim, although the implementation is not effectively enforced. There is much more data that can be interpreted but those are some of the most important.…
The Family violence do not discriminated any race or age. This subject has many branches, but let us focuses in the branch of family homicides. What is a family homicide? Homicide means the action of killing another person. There are different types of homicides that happened in a family, for example, “Infanticide means the killing of a child by a parent”.…
Freedom is a word that lots of people desire. Freedom is not only meant physically free, it also points to the freedom of the soul. It seems like we are always restricted by something: unlimited homework, family, even children in the future. As the result, we should be more independent. I cannot say that freedom has the necessary relationship with independent, but somehow, we can link them together.…
Torture and Gendered violence in Abu Ghraib INTRODUCTION As the British journalist Fisk (2010) mentioned in " Robert Fisk: The truth about 'honour' killings”, most female prisoners held at Abu Ghraib were raped, and some of them even got killed after returning home because their families felt shamed. On the other hand, Zurbriggen (2008) points out that male prisoners in Abu Ghraib also suffered from sexualized torture and abuse from female American soldiers.…
5. Gorris, E. A. P. “Invisible Victims? Where Are Male Victims of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Law and Policy?” European Journal of Women 's Studies,…
According to Ariany (2013, p.537-538), CEDAW is the least respected human rights treaty, since many states parties made their reservations to CEDAW. Bangladesh, Egypt, Iraq, the Kingdom of Bahrain, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Maldives, Morocco and Oman made reservations to CEDAW, due to its contrary to Shari’a. While Algeria, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Turkey and Yemen made reservations to CEDAW due to religious justifications. And the most reserved article is Article 16 on marriage and family life. In addition to that, Englehart and Miller (2014, p.22-23) explain that CEDAW has small contribution to human rights’ attainment, due to its weak enforcement, compare to other UN human rights treaties.…
In any case, avoiding the beggar was the dumbest decision the man could have made. The beggar undoubtedly noticed the man’s behavior and probably felt lonely and abandoned because of it. More so than he usually does, that is. The indifference of man, which he so easily brushed aside for the sake of his own convenience, could very well end up costing the beggar his eternal salvation.…
Plausibly, the most important reason for opposing honor killing is religious. Most people plea that Islam is the cause of such shameful acts since there are a lot of killing cases done by Muslim people or in Islamic countries. Yet, according to Amin (2016 ), honor killing is not acceptable, and it is not mentioned in Quran or hadiths. Also, religious authorities disagree with it and forbid it. Iftikhar(2016) reported Imam Zaid Shakir who said that in Islam there is nothing called honor killing and killing blameless women just because they did not follow their parents’ wishes is like cold-blooded murder and “ there is no legitimate Islamic religious authority who can argue”.…
Sexual harassment in the workplace is a hazard encountered in the working place across the world. It reduces the quality of working life, jeopardizes the well-being of both working men and women, and imposes costs on firms and organizations. The issue pertaining to sexual harassment in the workplace has been addressed by several international groups like the United Nations (UN), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the European Union (EU), the Caribbean community (CARICOM), and the organization of American States (OAS) as a human right violation, a form of violence, and discrimination. Since sexual harassment in the workplace pollutes the working environment and can have a devastating effect upon the health, confidence, morale and performance…