The document provides information about P.A.A.V.E., the Peers Advocating for Anti-Violence Education program at Jean Nidetch Women's Center. It discusses their 18-hour training on domestic violence and sexual assault. It then covers topics like rape culture, sexual assault, domestic violence and provides definitions. It discusses analyzing media and its influence. Statistics on sexual assault and domestic violence are also presented.

1. P.A.A.V.E. Presentation
Jean Nidetch Women’s Center

2. Jean Nidetch Women’s Center
We provide:
• Workshops and
presentations
• Events on campus
• Advocacy for violence
prevention and breast
cancer awareness
• Academic involvement

3.  Peers Advocating for Anti-Violence Education
 Formerly known as SAFE Team,
began in 2002
 Completed 18-hour training on domestic
violence and sexual assault

4.  Rape Culture and Media Analysis
 Sexual Assault
 Domestic Violence

5. Definitions
 Rape Culture: The culture of media that we live in that, in certain ways,
conditions us to condone rape…to operate under certain unhealthy and
potentially dangerous ideals about sex and sexual assault.
 Media Literacy: The ability to access, analyze, evaluate (think clearly), and
create media in all forms (print, TV, movies, internet, etc.).
 Sexual Assault: Forcing a person to participate in unwanted sexual activity
using violence or threats.
 Domestic Violence: is one person’s choice to use power to systematically
take control of another person’s life including: emotional insults, economic
deprivation, threats, coercion, & physical and sexual violence.

6. Why is analyzing the media important?
 Media messages affect our thoughts and actions
 Media convey ideological and value messages
 Media messages reflect the values and viewpoints of media
makers
 Most media are controlled by commercial interests

7. Gender Representations

8. Violence and media connection
How is this an example of rape culture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eIM8V7tR1c&feature=related

9. Conclusion
Analyzing the media with consideration
to gender is crucial to understanding
the larger context in which violence
operates.

10. Statistics
 Only about 42% of rapes/sexual assaults were reported to law
enforcement in 2007
 1 out of 6 American women have been the victims of an
attempted or completed rape in their lifetime
 About 3% of American men- a total of 2.78 million men –
have experienced an attempted or completed rape in their
lifetime
 98% of males who raped boys were heterosexual
 70% of female rape victims and 74% of male victims knew
their assailant
 90% of college women of rape and sexual assault knew their
attacker prior to the assault

11.  Nevada Revised Statutes: Sexual Assault
 “A person who subject another person to sexual
penetration, or who forces another person to make a
sexual penetration on himself or another, against the
victim’s will or under conditions in which the perpetrator
knows or should know that the victim is mentally or
physically incapable of resisting or understanding the
nature of his conduct, is guilty of sexual assault”

12. Definitions
 Sexual assault is a broader category that the Justice
Department uses to classify rape, attempted rape and
other violent felonies that fall short of rape.
 Consent?
 Mentally Unable?
 Physically Unable?

13. How do I get consent?
 Hypothetical situations…
 “What if we…”
 “How would you feel if we…”
 “What do you think about…”
 I statements…
 Coercion is NOT consent

14. What is consent?
Both parties are fully conscious.
Both parties have equal ability to act.
Both parties are positive and sincere in their desires.
Both parties have clearly communicated their intent.
Why don’t people get consent?
 Fear of Rejection
 May hear partner is a survivor
 May not know how

15.  Many different forms of violence in a relationship
 Often are dismissed as “isolated” or “random” acts of
anger
 Media images contribute to a social complicity of violence
and often portrays signs of violence in relationships as
signals of “passion” or “lust”
 Signs of abuse overlap and escalate

16.  Has the abuser…
 Called you stupid or insulted your intelligence?
 Criticized your appearance?
 Told you that you could never leave him/her?
 Told you that you could be easily replaced?
 Said that no one else would want you?

17.  Has the abuser…
 Ridiculed or insulted your gender as a group?
 Ridiculed your beliefs, morals, race, religion or heritage?
 Humiliated you in public OR private?
 Insulted or driven away your friends or family?
 Manipulated you with lies or contradictions?
 Threatened to hurt themselves if you left?

18.  Has the abuser…
 Held or restrained you to keep you from leaving?
 Slapped or pushed you?
 Locked you out of the house?
 Refused to help you when you were sick, injured or
pregnant?
 Forced or aggressively pressured you to consume alcohol
or drugs?

19.  Has the abuser…
 Forced you to strip when you didn’t want to?
 Been jealous or angry, assuming you have had sex with
someone else?
 Criticized you sexually?
 Forced you into unwanted sex?
 Withheld sex and affection?
 Insisted on uncomfortable or unwanted touching?

20.  Has the abuser…
 Taken credit cards/checks/money away as a form of
punishment?
 Forced you to hand over money or your paychecks?
 Refused to tell you about bills?
 Are they the only one “allowed” to work?
 Taken your name off crucial documents (insurance,
leases) to prevent your access to them?
 Drained your bank account?

22.  Can be short or long term
 Cutting/ self-mutilation
 Eating disorders
 Depression
 Alcohol and substance abuse
 Re-entrance into a violent relationship
 Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
 Academic Career

23.  Abuse in relationships is any pattern of behavior
that is used to coerce, dominate or isolate the other
partner to gain control
 Abuse knows no boundary concerning race, class,
gender, sexual orientation etc.
 Remember, violence may take a different form in
different communities but that does not make one
form more important than another

24.  Similarities
1. Abuse is always the responsibility of the abuser. It is
their choice.
2. Victims are often blamed for the abuse by their
partner.
3. It is difficult for victims to leave their relationship.
4. Victims often feel responsible for their abuse.
5. Abuse escalates over time.
6. The abuser is often apologetic after abusing, giving
false hope that the abuse will stop.

25.  Differences
1. There are limited resources available for abused and
abusive LGBTQ people.
2. Homophobia in society denies the reality of some
same sex relationships, including their very existence,
let alone abuse.
3. Shelters for women may not be sensitive to a victim of
same sex assault.
4. Gay/Bi/Trans men have even fewer options for help.
5. Reporting may result in a feeling or experience of
being excluded from the LGBTQ community.

26.  The Role of Alcohol
Alcohol is the most common drug used to facilitate
sexual assaults- particularly among college students. As
opposed to other drugs (such as GHB and Rohypnol) that
are often given to victims without their knowledge, alcohol
is often consumed consensually.
Perpetrators often take advantage of victims who are
already intoxicated, or purposefully get a target drunk in
order to facilitate a sexual assault. These perpetrators most
often have had much less to drink than the victim and in
some cases have not consumed alcohol at all.

27.  MYTHS  FACTS
1. Battering occurs more 1. Violence occurs in all
frequently in certain ethnic racial and ethnic
or socioeconomic groups groups and in all class
2. Violence is caused by levels of society
substance abuse 2. Substances can trigger
3. Women who stay in violent violence but batterers
situations are not good are violent even when
mothers sober
3. Many mothers choose
to stay because there’s
no where else to go
and often, to protect
children

28.  FACTS
 MYTHS
1. 25-50% of all women
1. Violence only affects
a small part of the are abused. Battering
population deaths are more
common than cancer
and car accidents
4. Fights in relationships combined
are normal and 2. Disagreements occur
natural but “heated” arguments
must be analyzed for
signs of violence

29.  Myths  Facts
6. Sexual assault is a crime of
6. Sexual assault is a crime
violence. Assailants seek to
of passion and lust.
dominate, humiliate and punish their
victims.
“Rape is primarily an act of violence
with sex as the weapon” (Burgess
&Holmstrom).

30.  Facts
 Myths
7. Many convicted sexual
7. Persons who dress assailants are unable to
or act in a "sexy" remember what their
way are asking to be victims looked like or
sexually assaulted. were wearing. Nothing
a person does or does
not do causes a brutal
crime like sexual
assault.

31.  Safe House (Domestic Violence Support)
 702.451.4203
 Abuse Crisis Center / DV Hotline
 702.646.4981
 Rape Crisis Center
 366-1640
 More information available at:
 The Jean Nidetch Women’s Center, UNLV
SSC A, 255 – 702.895.4475

32. Violence and Immigrant Women
The two most common forms of abuse experienced by immigrant
women are intimate partner violence and exploitative work conditions.
•Domestic violence and sexual assault commonly occur in the home,
at immigrant detention centers, and on the job.
•Exploitative work conditions include, but are not limited to:
•poor wages
•unlimited work hours with no rest days and limited breaks
•lack of health benefits
•isolation from the outside world
•substandard physical environments.
Immigrant women might also experience sexual, physical, emotional, or
psychological abuse at the hands of their employers.
www.ncrwbigfive.org

33. EMOTIONAL ABUSE
 Lying about her immigration status.
 Telling her family lies about her.
 Calling her racist names.
 Belittling and embarrassing her in front of family and friends.
 Causing her to lose face.
 Telling her that he has abandoned her culture and become
"white," or "American."
 Preventing her from visiting sick or dying relatives.
 Lying about his ability to have the immigration status of his
lawful permanent resident abuse victims changed.

34. ECONOMIC ABUSE
 Forcing her to work "illegally" when she does not have a work permit.
 Threatening to report her to INS if she works "under the table.“
 Not letting her get job training or schooling.
 Taking the money her family back home were depending upon her to
send them.
 Forcing her to sign papers in English that she does not understand --
court papers, IRS forms, immigration papers.
 Harassing her at the only job she can work at legally in the U.S., so that
she loses that job and is forced to work "illegally."

35. SEXUAL ABUSE
 Calling her a prostitute or a "mail order bride."
 Accusing her of trying to attract other men when she
puts on make-up to go to work.
 Accusing her of sleeping with other men.
 Alleging that she has a history of prostitution on legal
papers.
 Telling her that "as a matter of law" in the United States
that she must continue to have sex with him whenever
he wants until they are divorced.

36. USING COERCION AND
THREATS
 Threatening to report her to the INS and get her deported.
 Threatening that he will not file immigration papers to legalize
her immigration status.
 Threatening to withdraw the petition he filed to legalize her
immigration status.
 Telling her that he will harm someone in her family.
 Telling her that he will have someone harm her family members
 Threatening to harm or harass her employer or co-workers.

37. USING CHILDREN
 Threatening to remove her children from the United States.
 Threatening to report her children to the INS.
 Taking the money she was to send to support her children in her home
country.
 Telling her he will have her deported and he will keep the children with
him in the U.S.
 Convincing her that if she seeks help from the courts or the police the
U.S. legal system will give him custody of the children.
 In many countries men are given legal control over the children and he
convinces her that the same thing will occur here.

38. USING CITIZENSHIP OR
RESIDENCY PRIVILEGE
 Failing to file papers to legalize her immigration status.
 Withdrawing or threatening to withdraw immigration
papers filed for her residency.
 Controlling her ability to work.
 Using the fact of her undocumented immigration status
to keep her from reporting abuse or leaving with the
children.
 Telling her that the police will arrest her for being
undocumented if she calls the police for help because
of the abuse.

39. INTIMIDATION
 Hiding or destroying important papers (i.e. her passport, her
children's passports, ID cards, health care cards, etc.)
 Destroying the only property that she brought with her from her
home country.
 Destroying photographs of her family members.
 Threatening persons who serve as a source of support for her.
 Threatening to do or say something that will shame her family or
cause them to lose face.
 Threatening to divulge family secrets.