Rape

Introduction

Rape is when someone uses force or threat to carry out a sexual intercourse or similar sexual act. This can be done in many different ways. Someone may hold another person and forces apart the legs. It may also be the victims of abuse feel threatened and give in, but the perpetrator needs to use violence. It can also happen through anal sex, oral sex, or by any of the objects or fingers into the vagina or anus. To have sexual intercourse with a person who is in helpless condition is also counted as rape. It may be, for example if you are drunk, drugged, or have a disability or illness that makes one unable to say no or resist and defend their selves. Although sexual intercourse or other serious sexually abusive acts against children under 15 years is defined as rape - regardless of whether the perpetrator has used violence and threats.

Discussion

It is described as "violent" in the legislation is physical violence but need not be serious violence. Suffice it to someone using her body pressing down anyone or push apart the person's leg. It is described as "hot" is not necessarily something that has been said, it could also be a situation that can be seen as threatening. To "find themselves in a helpless state" means for example that you are very drunk or drugged, that you are sleeping, unconscious, or that due to mental disability, illness or injury cannot protect themselves (Seigel, 2012) .

Rape or sexual assault is prosecuted, the detection rate is about 80% - but there are a large number of unreported cases unreported. In Germany, every year more than 8000 cases are made public. The highest reporting rate is at unknown assailants, but about three-quarters of the perpetrators come from the family or friends. About 8 to 15% of women are raped in young adulthood; the number of attempted rape is almost twice as high. Rape is a crime that violates the sexual autonomy of the victim. Thus, sexual acts are referred to which a person has been forced against their will by force or threat of force or by taking advantage of a helpless state. Forced sexual intercourse is considered complete when the penis has penetrated at least in the vestibule - an ejaculation does not have to be done. Sexual intercourse was not enforced; there is still the fact of a sexual assault (Koss, 162).

Rape of a child means that someone has sex with or perform another serious sexually abusive act with a person under 15. This requires not that there was violence or the threat of a court should be able to judge for rape. This also applies to children between 15 and 18 used by someone with special responsibility for them, such as a parent or a parent's partner. If the child is over 18 years old can a parent convicted of "sexual intercourse with an offspring." The minimum sentence for rape is two years in prison and the longest is ...