PTSD IN FEMALE RAPE VICTIMS

PTSD in female rape victims

PTSD in female rape victims

Introduction

For some time, the social sciences, especially law, criminology, psychoanalysis and psychology, have begun the study of victims and the processes of victimization in the criminal phenomenon, therefore, these studies have opened a field has been called "victimology." No wonder this sudden interest. On the one hand, certain social phenomena of victimization have reached an important place in the concerns of much of society. More than in the first or second world wars, the effects of war on American veterans in the wars in Korea, Vietnam or the Persian Gulf have been monitored showing the aftermath, sometimes quite serious, that experience of extreme violence has left these soldiers. However, the field from which to structure the knowledge of victims is larger. The aftermath of violence that has left the operation of neoliberal policies is established in virtually the entire planet and sets its singularities according to history and social and cultural characteristics of each society. Rich and poor, strong societies technologized or profound underdevelopment, all show a sharp increase in social violence. And while the increase in violence is clearly associated with poverty and frustration of large social groups, it certainly is also determined by a large and complex network of conditions that make essential an accurate and detailed the ways in which installed in the social fabric and their effects on it.

Elsewhere (Walters, 2005) has developed some angles of this issue of violence? We have shown that it is clear from the normal social forms and is a component of any society of our time. Social offenders groups bear no structural differences in relation to other groups who express discontent and disagreement with the society in which they live. However, we also noted that these groups or collective criminal require the creation or construction of a set of meanings and their registration and adoption of an imaginary country from which justifies and makes possible the exercise of extreme forms of violence . This registration means in a world of imaginary social institutions dominated by mythological perspective of a world upside down gives these groups a correlation that requires and justifies the extreme violence with which they act. From this perspective, the generation of large groups and criminal networks is a long process of several generations, in which work on social resentment establishing a strong analyzer real value of existence and human life. Put another way, resentment evident in the criminal groups is also a reflection, perhaps distorted, but rather grotesque, the real value of human life in neoliberal societies. (Walters, 2005)

However, if from the center of criminal groups could be clearly enrollment in an imaginary universe that not only justifies but demands the full exercise of extreme violence as a condition of existence and meaning, our eyes should land on the pole the victim, perhaps with the expectation of finding an imaginary universe juxtaposed to the pole of criminal ...