Sexual Offender Laws and the Labeling Theory

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Sexual violence is perceived as a gendered crime of power. The law claims that rape is a crime. However, when rape cases are brought before the legal system, they are hit with the allegation of “rape myths” and the victim’s legitimacy is questioned and undermined by legal representatives and jurors; thus the public. This has resulted in rape being the most under reported crime. The aim of this paper is to examine the reasons why society blames the victims rather than the perpetrators and to explore why they commit sexual violence offences.

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The term sex offender is generically used to describe someone who has been convicted of crimes involving sex, and these crimes include rape, molestation, sexual harassment, and pornography production and distribution. A sexual offender usually differs from a sexual predator because sexual predators usually seek to obtain sexual contact with another person in a methodically “predatory” manner. There are also pedophiles, and they are a categorically distinct form of sexual offenders, as their crimes are geared toward children. Also, they are considered to be sexual deviants. Pedophilia itself is defined as “a sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object.” There has been many cases in the news about pedophiles and pedophilia.

K. M. Scott is a world renowned published author who has discussed finding on how the world we live in today is very much considered sexualized due to media content. Anyone is able t... ... middle of paper ... ...cle/592 • McKay, B., & McKay, K. (2009). The problem with porn and relationships. The Art of Manliness, Retrieved from http://www.artofmanliness.com/2009/05/11/the-problem-with-porn/ • Noble, S. (2010). The history of modern pornography.

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I believe that people who search out porn that has violence in it have been abused themselves. Should an experiment be conducted on regular people with no history of violence, they would either not be turned on by pornography that consists of violence or rape. It is likely that some people, including some of the men in the experiments, were turned on due to the act of sex more than the act of women being abused sexually. Works Cited Russell, Diana E. Dangerous Relationships: Pornography, Misogyny, and Rape. (Sage Publications, 1998.)

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