PSY 3122 Lecture 8: Sexual Assault
19 Dec 2016
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In the usa it is crime and punishment de nitions are mandated by individual states. Prior to the change in laws, you couldn"t rape your wife because she was your property/chattal. Rape had to be between a man and a woman as de ned by sexual intercourse. Gay, minor, non-intercourse behaviours were not classi ed as rape under the law. 25% of individuals who are involved in sexual assault under the age of eighteen are perpetrators, showing that the other 75% were involved with someone older than them. With law changes, rape de nitions were no longer limited to heterosexual inter-course. Before, rape could only be de ned if there was semen in the vagina so if condoms were used, or another object was used it wouldn"t count as rape under the law. Crown attorneys: like cases where nuns or dead people were raped because no one will argue that or claim that it wasn"t sexual assault.
