My topic is the same since blog #1: rape culture on college campuses. I am arguing that rape culture still exists and thrives on college campuses. I Googled "campus rape culture" and found lots of articles talking about campus rape culture. It's a really popular conversation around college campuses right now so it's easy to find information about it. I found a lot of statistics from credible sources such as the Department of Justice and Bureau of Justice Statistics. Statistics will help solidify my argument. I will rely on a lot of statistical and factual websites for this paper, along with some professional websites and organizations who are well informed about sexual assault and violence specifically on college campuses. I found a book called The Hunting Ground which I have actually seen the documentary film for, so it might be an interesting book to use since I am familiar with it. Some ideas I've gotten is that sexual assault and rape are big discussions in college campuses currently and even in the Department of Education with policies being made. A few important issues are advocating for victims and decreasing the rape culture/"acceptance" seen on campuses. I think the biggest controversy is that some people don't believe rape culture even exists or isn't as big a problem as people think.
Relevant links to come back to (will update and add as I continue researching):
https://books.google.com/books?id=kJ8gDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=campus%20rape%20culture&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=campus%20rape%20culture&f=false - This link is important because it's to The Hunting Ground book that will have a inside story and information about sexual assault.
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/campus-sexual-violence - This link has many relevant statistics, so it'll be important to back up my argument.
http://www.statepress.com/article/2017/02/spopinion-rape-culture-is-normalized-on-campuses
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/089124396010002003
http://www.equip.org/PDF/JAF2392.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Blurred-Lines-Rethinking-Consent-Campus/dp/0544702557/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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ReplyDeleteThis article addresses how fraternity men are particularly prone to be sexual victimizers of women on college campuses. They do a study at a midwestern university to get this information. I am sure there is probably a lot of great info that you can use on why rape culture is still so prominent on college campuses.
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This book would be a great aspect to look into. It is a guide for police officers and how to handle acquaintance rape on college campuses. Lack of police presence and of training university officers about rape could be another reason for such high levels of campus rape.
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ReplyDeleteI have Grigoriadis's Blurred Lines out from my local library and find it overly superficial (in its journalistic hurry to move from case to case), though it might be useful for surveying a variety of cases that relate to our confusing moment regarding consent on college campuses. I looked especially at its treatment of "the mattress girl" case, which Grigoriadis returns to several times, but rarely with any deep analysis. I get the impression that she is satisfied with saying "its complicated" and "confusing" -- and though that is true, and the cases she raises are all interesting because of that, you would still need to find more academic approaches to aid your analysis.
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