Brock Turner Rape

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Since the beginning of time, the main purpose of life was to reproduce to ensure genetic survival. Males who struggled to find a mate would force a female (or a few) to mate with him. Although it is no longer the time of the primitives, males still force themselves on females. The issue of rape is at large, but if there was a reason behind the rape of women, it could be prevented. There are a number of factors that contribute to rape including: psychological influences, social influences, and rape culture. Psychological influences that contribute to the rape of women include mental disorders and higher aggression levels in men. There are, “A wide variety of psychiatric and personality disorders have been diagnosed among sexual offenders, most frequently some type of antisocial …show more content…
Brock Turner was only given six months in jail because, “I have also considered the fact that he was legally intoxicated at the time of the incident. Pursuant to the evidence at trial, this does affect judgment… And there is one character letter from Leslie Rasmussen...‘Brock has been a peer of mine since elementary school,’ and she talks about how she came to know him. And then she writes, [as read] ‘If I had to choose one kid I graduated with to be in the position Brock is, it would never have been him. I could name off five others that I wouldn’t be surprised about’” (Persky). Aaron Persky was the judge who decided the ruling. He gave Turner a light sentence because he was intoxicated at the time of the crime, and he had a friend, who just so happened to be a girl, who had never felt threatened by Brock Turner. This was essentially stating that because Brock Turner did not rape one girl, he did not mean to rape the other and would never do it again. The Brock Turner case is an example of rape culture. Rape culture is the justification or normalization of rape. Rape culture allows for people like Brock Turner get away with their heinous crimes. Every woman is affected by rape

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