Constitutional Law Ip 1

Abstract

There are date rape statics in this paper to prove this is a crime that needs to be addressed. Date rape is a real problem that needs to be stopped. Date rape is different from any other type of rape and this offense is hard to prove because the victim is usually the only witness and it must be proven that the sex was not consensual. The use of date rape drugs is very common with this offense and can be very dangerous for the victim. One of the worst issues with date rape is how the jury and the court system views the victims of this crime, a lot of times the victims are not taken seriously.

RAPE STATICS UCR

In 2011 the number of arrest that were made for sex offenses that also included rape were seventy seven thousand three hundred and twenty six according to the UCR report.

1. 1.In 2009 77,326 arrests were made for sex offenses to include date rape, this is according to the UCR report, (Estimated Number of Arrests United States, 2009, 2009).

2.The strength of this reporting for date rape is that the statics' are not over exaggerated. The number is actually lower than the actual incidence of rape.

3.The downfall of the UCR date rape is that the only recorded incidents of is the ones that arrests were made, (Estimated Number of Arrests United States, 2009, 2009).

2.RAPE STSTICS WITH THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM SURVEY 1.Rate of rape and sexual assault per 1,000 age 12 or older, 2009, According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

2.0.3 females per 1,000 were raped, (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

3.0.3 females per 1,000 were attempted, (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

4.This is a total of 0.6 females per 1,000, (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

5.Sexual assault of females was 0.2 per 1,000. (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

6.This is a total of 0.8 females per 1,000 that were attempted rape, or sexually assaulted, (Rape and sexual assault, 2009).

Date rape is defined as forcible sexual intercourse by a man on a woman while or during a voluntary social engagement in which the woman did not intend on having sexual intercourse and resisted the sexual advances by the man verbally or physically, (Date Rape, 2011).

Stranger rape is a rape in which the victim did not know the rapist, (Stranger Rape, 2011). This is different from date rape due to the victim during date rape knew the rapist and was on a voluntary social engagement with the rapist, (Date Rape, 2011).