how women are prey to different types o violences

1. Victimization of Women
A. Scope of the Problem

2. A Culture of Victimization
• Sexual victimization occurs in a social context in
which there exist a male dominated power
structure.
• Violent tactics are used against women in order to
frighten them into submission. The ultimate goal
is domination and control.
• Sexual terrorism is one form of victimizing
women and is defined as a system by which males
frighten, thereby controlling and dominating,
females.

3. Components of “Sexual Terrorism:”
• Ideology
– The ideology of sexual terrorism is patriarch or rule by
the father.
• Propaganda
– This ideology is disseminated in all expressions of
popular culture such as films, television, music,
literature, advertising and pornography.
– It would be a way of persuading people to perform such
act of violence
– Worse form of propaganda towards women is
pornography

4. Components of “Sexual Terrorism:”
• Amorality
– The perpetrator believes that such expressions
of violence against women are normal.
• Voluntary Compliance
– An elaborate system of sex-role socialization
practices that instruct women to be passive
victims.
• society's perception of the terrorist and the
terrorized

5. Pathology of the Perpetrator
• Masculine ideologies and need for power.
– Meta-analysis (Murnen et al., 2002).
• History of abuse or witnessing of abuse
– (e.g., Christopher, Lutz-Zois, & Reinhardt,
2007; Daigneault, Hebert, & McDuff, 2009;
Walker, 2000).

6. • If you could be assured that no one would
know and that you could in no way be
punished for engaging in the following act,
would you
1. Rape a woman?
2. Force a woman to do something sexually that she
really didn’t want to do?

7. Forms of Sexual Terrorism
• Wife battering
• Child sexual abuse
• Rape
• Child sexual abuse

8. Characteristics of sexual
terrorism
• Violence against female cuts across
socioeconomic lines
• Crimes of sexual violence are the least likely to be
reported
• Crimes of violence against females have the
lowest conviction rates
• Blaming the victim of sexual violence is pervasive
• Sexual violence is not taken seriously