1. OUR GROUP
MELINDA DORCAS
FOONG ZI MEI
SHARMILA DEVI
VINIY VINMALAR
YOHGALAA
CHOI JUN YI

3. WHAT IS RAPE?
Sex without your consent is
rape
If you are under 16 years of
age, sex with or without your
consent is statutory rape

4. Noor Suzaily Mukhtar Case
(2000)

5. Canny Ong rape and murder (2003)

6. WHY DO THEY DO IT?
Power Rapist Anger Rapist
- Goal to humiliate - Goal to torture
- No physical harm only - Physically harms the victim
verbal - To express rage and hatred
- To get self-confidence, towards women
show his manliness - To hurt women who have hurt
him
Eg. Recent Delhi gang rape case

7. TYPES OF RAPE
• Gang rape: By more than 1 rapist
• Date rape: Happens after a date
• War rape: Carried out by soldiers
• Spousal rape: By husband
• Statutory rape: Victim below the age of 16
• Prison rape: Happens in prison

8. DEVIANCE IN RAPE
• Rape is a behaviour that violates the standards
of conduct and expectations of society
• Rapist are considering enemies of society
• They are rejected and treated as outlaws in
society

9. CONCLUSION
• Rape is best viewed by functionalist perspective

10. STATISTICS

11. WHO DOES IT INVOLVE?
- Women in general regardless of age and race
- In Malaysia the trend is older men choosing
younger girls, below the age of 16
Many offenders are aged between 45 and
55. Ironically, 82% of respondents over the
age of 50 raped girls aged 16 and below.
The trend continues today with rape
victims becoming increasingly younger.

12. SHOULD WE CARE?
A high percentage of rapist are acquaintances,
‘friends’ and relatives
For every rape case that is reported,
nine go unreported
Approximately 69.4% of rapes
occurred in "safe" places (houses,
schools etc.)

17. Serial rapist (2005)

19. 3 MAJOR
PERSPECTIVES

20. Rape
View by using THREE PERSPECTIVES

21. Three Perspectives On Rape
• Funtionalist Perspective
• Conflict Perspective
• Feminist Perspective
• Interactionist Perspective

22. Functionalist Perspectives
• emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society
are structured to maintain its stability
Dysfunction
Manifest Latent
Function Function

23. Manifest Function
• Open, stated, and conscious functions
• Keep people aware
• Remind us not to walk alone and at remote area
 Examples: Car park, back street and etc.
• Provided job opportunity
 Examples: Police officer, doctor, nurse, judge,
psychologists, martial arts coach
and etc.
• Law being construct in country

24. Latent Function
• Known as the hidden function in as it reflects
hidden purposes
• Increases the sales on defensive items
 Examples: Pepper spray, alarm and etc.
• Provided opportunity to learn martial arts
 Examples: Wushu, Taekwondo, Karate, Judo
and etc.

25. Dysfunction
• Refers to an element or process of a society that
may actually disrupt the social system or its
stability
• Bring psychological effects to the victim
• Emotional and psychological effects
 Examples: Depression, flashbacks of memory,
borderline personality disorder, sleep disorder,
eat disorder and etc.

26. Dysfunction
Physical Effects
Sexually diseases Pregnant
transmitted
HIV

27. Conflict Perspectives
• Best understood in terms of tension between
groups over power or the allocation of resources
Conflict between
Rapist and
Society Rapist and
Rapist

28. Conflict Perspectives
• Rapist and society
 Rapist: Fulfill own desire
 Society: Rapist are deviance
• Rapist and rapist
 compare who's the strongest and more powerful

29. Feminist View
• Sees inequity in gender as central to all behavior
and organization
• Mostly female
• Desire to rape woman sometimes resulting in death

30. Interactionist Perspectives
• Generalizes about everyday forms of social
interaction in order to explain society as a whole
Interaction
Rapist and Victim and Rapist
Victim
Victim and Family and
Victim and Police Friends

31. Interactionist Perspectives
• Rapist and victim
Example: Try to get a chance to rape a woman
• Victim and rapist
Example: Beg the rapist
• Victim and police
Example: Make report
• Victim and family and friends
Example: Communicate

32. Nurul Huda Abdul Ghani (2004)

33. HOW TO KEEP
YOURSELF
SAFE?

34. Have pepper spray or chilli
powder with you at all times

35. Be careful when leaving your
house, getting into the car when
alone

36. Always trust your gut instinct
Be aware of your surroundings at
all times

37. Stay safe at parties and clubs

38. HOW DOES RAPE AFFECT ITS VICTIMS?
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – feelings of severe anxiety
and stress
• Depression
• Flashbacks – memories of rape as if it is taking place again
• Sleep disorders
• Eating disorders
• Guilt – Blame themselves for what happened
• Distrust of others – uneasy in everyday social situations
• Anger
• Feelings of personal powerlessness – victims feel the rapist robbed
them of control over their bodies

39.  Myth #1: Most rapists are strangers to provoke
 Fact: Most rapists are actually people known by the
victim (as shown in the statistics previously)
 Myth #2: Women provoke by dressing provocatively
 Fact: Women who dress decently (Eg. In long skirt,
baju kurung) have also been raped
 (As seen in Noor Suzaily Mukthar’s case)
 Myth #3: Women cannot be raped by their husbands
 Fact: It is considered as rape when a husband
threatens, forces or demands unacceptable sexual
acts and uses violence

40. STEREOTYPE AND PREJUDICE
IN SOCIETY
Corrective Rape
Use of rape against people who violate
social norms and gender roles
Eg. Lesbian women and gay men
Thailand
Ecuador
South Africa Zimbabwe

41. • MEN AS VICTIMS OF RAPE
• Victims of rape include men in a large number
and not only women as commonly believed
• Unfortunately, many of these cases go
unreported due to shame and the lack of
acceptance by society

42. • The video below is a rare
case were a son was raped
by his very own mother

44. FIGHT AGAINST RAPE !
PREVENT IT!
AND DON’T DO IT!