Women and Crime; How to support victims of gendered violence or female offenders

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 Women and Crime; How to support victims of gendered violence or female offenders

Overview of problem

Violence is regarded as the process of using physical forces on individuals to create

damage, hurting, or killing someone or an individual. Criminal justice is significantly using

forces in administering justice and arresting offenders in the world. However, the excessive

forces affect women in society as they are discriminated hence the need to support the female

offenders on their violence. Gender-based violence creates direct harm to individuals in a society

based on their gender, resulting in gender inequality, abuse of harmful norms, and power.

However, the act of gender-based violence is a critical violation of an individual's rights and

threatening health life and protection issues (Bates et al., 2019). Gender-based violence

profoundly affects human rights with developmental and social impacts for the survivors'

communities, families, and society. However, female violence is a common violation of human

rights globally.

Why we should try to address

The issue needs to be addressed since it undermines the female offenders' dignity, health,

national and economic boundaries in the world. The victimized female's security and

anautonomy are affected despite the actions being shredded and silence prevailing (Bates et al.,

2019). The violent victims also suffer reproductive and sexual health consequences that can

result in unsafe abortions, unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases like HIV/AIDS,

traumatic fistula, and sometimes death. In the United States, sexual assault is typical for early

adolescents and violent intimate partners. For example, Heather Hlavka's case illustrates how
school-age ladies with young ages like eleven are exposed to sexual violence in a school setting

(Mulla, 2018).

Why issue occurs

Gender-based violence occurs because of conflicts and war that happen between partners,

creating intimate partner violence. However, hunger is also an issue that results in gender-based

violence affecting women. The issue increases due to empowering women and eliminating food

scarcity and hunger, but it causes conflicts and war. Lastly, harmful gender norms and

stereotyping create violence against women. The norms tend to make men see young women as

sex machines that lead to sexual harassment and sexual violence for intimate lovers.

What policy does and how help fix gap and limitations

Mitigating gender-based violence issues in the United States requires frank antiviolence

and an age-appropriate and sexual curriculum to address the issues. The strategies are effective

since they help in increasing and ensuring the sexual health of girls is improved that unwanted

pregnancies can be improved. Simultaneously, a Title IX policy is implemented to reduce the

issue that it targets the campus greatly affected in the United States. They debated that created

the policy prohibits sexual harassment and abuse for college students engaged in violence and

discrimination in the federally funded program in education. The Title IX policy was expanded

in April 2011 under Obama's administration from the civil rights office. It subjected universities

to protect female students from getting affected by gender-based violence (Mulla, 2018).

Moreover, the higher learning institution rape crisis is significant with an approximation of 19%

rape cases in the U. S and a18.3% rape cases for the older women in the public and other

populations. Despite the policies and recommendations to eradicate sexual violence among
women, self-care practices are established to be reduced by the young and women in society.

The women can raise their voices through social media to create awareness of respecting them

and creating gender-based violence awareness.

Who solution targets including parts of CJ system

Setting up the policies is essential in eradicating the challenge of gender-based

discrimination. The policies set are essential in protecting campus girls from the middle and low

class. The Title IX policy also protects the female gender in the United States since the girls are

greatly affected by sexual harassment and violence. Simultaneously, female minorities and low-

income women are inappropriately victimized, that the policies set targets them to enable them to

become free from rape and violence. The campus girls targeted with the policies are usually

between 20 – 24 years. They risk nonfatal domestic violence with their partners and experience

relatively high cases of rape when at 24 years (Menjivar et al., 2019).

Evidence how effective has been addressed the problem in places implemented

Title IX has been effectively implemented and advanced that it is utilized with higher

learning institutions to protect girls from crimes. The policy is effective since the young females

are safeguarded from possible harms of gender-based violence while at the school premises.

Creating awareness is a practice that partially worked as it met the targeted audience=s, who are

the young that like pending most of their time online. The utilization of social media managed to

attain reach to most youths as they are found to be online

Limitation of policy

The practices of demonstrating age-appropriate sexual health curriculum and frank

antiviolence have failed to be implemented in the United States. The failure results from
significant debates on sex-education in the U. S as it is believed to have a culturally fraught

nature. According to Mulla (2018), sexual assault in the United States is normalized in early

puberty." Intimate spouse violence is experienced by nearly a quarter of all women. It accounted

for about half of women's homicides, and marginalized racial and ethnic groups are often

demonized in state-sponsored sexual health interventions" (Wirtz et al., 2020). However, the

processes involved in addressing gender inequality problems in the society and as the SDGs

illustrate them to have a grappling requirement that is significant in female violence. Despite

implementing the Triple IX policies, males and older women are not safeguarded (Mulla, 2018).

This is because universities cannot protect the older female since most of them are not learning.

Creating awareness of gender-based violence for ladies is limited since most of the campaign

doesn't reach many people as they are less interested in online. Additionally, people tend to think

all social media news and posts are fake that they cannot believe in the awareness created trying

to reduce rape cases.

Conclusion

Violence is using excessive force to create harm, hurt, and sometimes kill others. Gender-

based violence is common in society in that the female gets to be abused sexually and gets into

personal conflicts in society. The issue is common for women that the issue is addressed by

implementing policies and practices that strive to attain gender equity and reduce gender-based

conflicts. The conflicts that result from gender-based violence are brought up by hunger, war,

and harmful norms and stereotyping for ladies. The policies implemented usually target females

and males as they are engaged in facilitating the violence common in society. Hence, it's efficient

to try to mitigate the challenges that result from gender-based violence among female students.
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