Background Information on Marital Rape in Singapore Under Singapore law, women are now protected from rape by their own husbands (otherwise known as marital rape). However, the very limited scope of the marital rape exemption should be acknowledged and hence addressed in the paper. Previously, there was a blanket ban against women crying rape by their husbands. This is known as the marital rape exception or marital rape exemption. The law has been changed such that a man who forces his wife to
from the women and shot the women. He calmly left the classroom and walked around the building shooting any women he saw. He then committed suicide. This report will analyze the event from a psychological, sociological and anthropological perspective. It will conclude that the psychological perspective is the most important in this case. Anthropology is the study of human species and its various cultures. In our culture the media regularly portrays women as objects instead of people. Women are often
Violence is a worldwide issue and many cultures face tremendous problems because of the effects it can cause. Violence is a term used to explain a type of harm done onto someone or a group of people and can be in many forms such as sexual, emotional, physical, etc. When looking at violence in a cultural perspective and narrowing in on Canada it is known that the Aboriginals face a great deal of violence, both in the past as well as today. Treatment of Aboriginal peoples in Canada has never been completely
Robert William Pickton’s behaviour can be analyzed using the psychological perspective of psychoanalysis. According to Sigmund Freud, the Id is driven by impulses, and in Pickton’s case, we can assume that his impulses were sexual, as the women he murdered were prostitutes (McLeod, 2013, “The Psyche,” para. 2). Pickton may have resorted to these specific women to satisfy his needs, while Pickton’s sexual impulses led to his Id satisfying them. While the Id is driven by impulses, the ego develops
A Sociological Perspective on Abortion (Hook) Among the countless issues that divide our nation today, abortion is one the most burdensome. Many people within our society choose to see the benefits of this philosophical issue without considering the consequences and others decide to only indulge themselves in the consequences of this procedure, without ever considering the benefits that it could have. Although abortion is currently legal within the United States there are many aspects of this procedure
less remembered. The tragic consequences seen today against females clearly indicate that it has a strong history. But traditionally the scenario is that Criminology is masculine branch of social science because it attributes the study largely of male crimes and male victimization, with very little attention paid to role of gender and especially about women. The theories that this branch of social science deals are
producers, authors and the press as everyone is fascinated in wanting to know how another individual can be so deranged. Investigators are persistently searching for answers in wanting to know why a serial killer kills, and whether psychological, sociological or biological factors play a role in becoming a killer (Gratrix, 3). It is often believed that a serial killer is not born, but rather formed through a series of events that may take place in one’s life. One’s childhood and social
relegating women to outsiders and event to outcasts in society, is called androcentrism. According to A.B. Sammons " Androcentrism develops when male views and behaviour are taken as the norm, and are used to explain both
target audience. However, women have taken the position of victims of such stereotyping when it comes to how society has been portraying them within not only the past sixty years, but beyond the times from when mass propaganda was introduced to the public. However, advertising has been used as a strong tool to outline stereotypes, and also depict women
meaning of the story involves the leaving of people out. They symbolize the oppressed members of society - those who are diseased, poor, unusual, and radically different. On the other hand, the parents take on the role as the antagonists, working against their sons. They fail to show the nurturing that the boys require. The parents symbolize the upper class, healthy, or acceptable people. These members of society always seem to be oppressive towards the lower members of society, such as the idiotic