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Counseling elderly female victims of rapeJohannes, Elaine Melton January 2011 (has links)
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The experiences of help received by children in the aftermath of rape.Itabor, Lindelani Lynette. January 2007 (has links)
The aim of the study was to explore and describe the experiences of children who have
been raped. It is a known fact that children are raped every day in South Africa, but how
the consequences are experienced by the child victims of rape is another matter.
Specifically, the researcher wanted to determine whether these children receive the
support that is their constitutional right and whether or not they are subjected tc
secondary victimization.
The sampling strategy employed was purposive sampling. This type of sampling wai
selected, as the researcher was looking for a particular type of participant, that is,
children who had disclosed rape. The sample consisted of six female children between the
ages of 5 and 17years. Participants' parents were consulted for their consent at c
counseling centre for abused children in Durban, where participants attended group
counseling and individual sessions.
The data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and analyzed usin^
thematic analysis. Unstructured interviews were tape recorded and transcribed. Thesi
transcriptions were coded for descriptive themes and were analyzed using thematic conten
analysis.
The research findings suggest that children have mixed views regarding the quality of the
help they receive; some had positive experiences and some had negative experiences.
Despite the fact that most participants experienced a sense of being interrogated and had
feelings of being not involved during discussions, two participants reported that although
rape is an atrocious experience there were positive consequences for them. For example,
getting attention from significant people in their lives was one of their positive experiences.
It was the experience of the researcher that there is a lack of research pertaining to the
experiences of children who are rape victims, especially research focusing on the quality
of support that rape victims ought to receive. Further research is recommended to clarify
and measure the prevalence of typical feelings and experiences of children who have been
raped / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007.
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Understanding Sexual Assault Survivors' Willingness to Participate in the Judicial SystemDavis, Mildred Ann 10 December 2014 (has links)
This dissertation examined the relationship between support services for adult survivors of sexual assault and judicial outcomes. Specifically, this study explored survivors' willingness to participate in the judicial process. Although "victim unwilling to participate" is the primary reason given by the police for cases not progressing to prosecution, we know little about most aspects of survivors' willingness to participate in the judicial process, especially beyond initial reporting of the assault. The steps to prosecution are dependent on one another yet a survivor's willingness to participate in these steps is a fluid process. The primary research question explored was Are there clusters of survivors according to their responses to specific items on a Willingness to Participate scale? Additional research questions focused on differences among possible clusters of survivors. A semi-structured interview protocol was completed with 46 survivors of adult sexual assault. Cluster analysis was conducted and three clusters emerged. Findings suggest that support services were helpful to those who were highly willing to participate but that willingness was insufficient to influence judicial outcomes. Future research concerning judicial outcomes in sexual assault cases should focus on strategies to dispel myths about rape among survivors, within the judicial system, and with potential jurors as a means of improving both survivor participation and judicial outcomes.
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Women's experiences of reporting rape to the police : a qualitative studyDu Plessis, Nina 12 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The issue of rape in South Africa has been widely documented and debated in the form of
academic, legal, governmental and media reports. The statistics that inform us both of the
incidence of rape and the number of women who report rape to the police have been
vehemently contested. Secondary victimization of rape survivors by police, medical and
legal officials, has been reported internationally in studies conducted in the United
Kingdom, the United States and South Africa. The present study explored 16 women’s
experiences of reporting rape to the police in historically disadvantaged communities.
Qualitative semi-structured interviews were aimed at eliciting information about the
nature of their experiences with the police and how their complaints were responded to
and dealt with by police personnel. Six categories and 18 themes emerged out of a
grounded theory analysis performed on the data. All of the participants were reportedly
dissatisfied with the manner in which they were treated or the way in which their cases
were handled by the South African Police Service (SAPS). The results implied the
existence of rape myths in police official’s attitudes towards rape survivors, and the need
to create awareness around the rights of rape survivors who report rape to the police, as
well as to educate police officers with regards to the sensitivity of the issue of rape.
Keywords: rape myths; secondary victimization; police; survivors; criminal justice
system; feminism; gender relations; rape in South Africa. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die onderwerp van verkragting in Suid-Afrika is deuglik debateer en dokumenteer deur
middel van akademiese, wetlike, regeering en media verslagte. Die statistieke wat ons in
kennis stel van die aantal insidente van verkragtings en die aantal vrouens wat
verkragting reporteer is gedurig in ‘n vurige en teenstrydige toestand. Sekondêre
viktimisering van verkragting oorlewendes deur die polisie, mediese en wetlike
amptenare, is geraporteer op internasionale vlak in studies wat gedoen is in die Verenigde
Koningkryk, die Verenigde State en Suid-Afrika. Hierdie studie dek die ervarings van 16
vrouens, vanuit historiese agtergeblewe gemeenskappe, se raportering van verkragting
aan die polisie. Kwalitatiewe semi-gestruktureerde onderhoude is gemik daarop om
inligting tot die lig te bring oor die natuur van hul ervaringe met die polisie, hoe daar op
hul aanklagte reaggeer is en hoe die polisie dit hanteer het. Ses katogorieë en 18 temas
was die resultaat vanuit ‘n gegronde teorie analisie wat gedoen is op die data. Al die
vrouens was ongelukkig met die manier waarop hul beweerde behandeling, of oor hul
sake hanteer was deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie Diens (SAPD). Die resultate het gewys
op die bestaan van verkragtingsmites in polisie amptenare se houding teenoor die
verkragting oorlewendes, en die behoefte om ‘n bewustheid te skep oor die regte van
verkraging oorlewendes wat verkragting raporteer aan die polisie, as ook om polisie
offisiere te onderrig ten opsigte van sensitiwiteit teenoor die saak van verkragting.
Sleutelwoorde: verkragtingsmites; sekondêre viktimisasie; polisie; oorlewendes;
kriminele justisie sisteem; feminisme; geslagsverhoudings; verkragting in Suid- Afrika.
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A Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust counselling skills course :a qualitative evaluation.Van Niekerk, Zaidah January 2006 (has links)
<p>Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is an organisation that trains and supervises a team of women counsellors who provide a counselling service to women rape survivors. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the counsellors and the counselling co-ordinator regarding their perceptions on whether the training provided by the personal growth and counselling skills course is adequate in dealing with rape and its complexities.</p>
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A Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust counselling skills course :a qualitative evaluation.Van Niekerk, Zaidah January 2006 (has links)
<p>Rape Crisis Cape Town Trust is an organisation that trains and supervises a team of women counsellors who provide a counselling service to women rape survivors. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of the counsellors and the counselling co-ordinator regarding their perceptions on whether the training provided by the personal growth and counselling skills course is adequate in dealing with rape and its complexities.</p>
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Participation in the anti-sexual violence silent protest: a sexual citizenship perspectiveChitiki, Elizabeth January 2018 (has links)
There is a growing body of research on sexual citizenship that focuses attention on gender and which bridges the gap between public and private life in order to rethink citizenship from a feminist perspective. This is in contrast to understandings of citizenship that promote policies of sexual regulation and a heteronormative ideal of citizenship. My research takes the form of a qualitative case study. Using data from two focus group discussions, fifteen personal diaries, as well as social media posts, I analyse participation in the Silent Protest, an annual anti-rape protest, through the lens of sexual citizenship. I look at how participation in the protest promotes or inhibits inclusive and process-based understandings of sexual violence and sexualities issues. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and the results of the analysis are presented into two parts. The first part of the analysis discusses the politics of affect and witnessing as two processes through which allies’ understandings of sexual violence are shaped. The second part of analysis shows that the Silent Protest contributes to people’s knowledge and understandings of sexual violence in relation to sexualities in a range of ways. Examples of inclusive understandings are: (1) insights about rape in relation to gender and heteronormative inequalities, culture and patriarchal dominance; (2) understanding of critical sexual citizenship in relation to sexual violence; and (3) understanding of politics of recognition (the need for recognition of the importance of safe spaces for formal and informal support for victim-survivors and recognition of victim-survivors’ identities). However, some of the understandings are limited to emotion and affect dynamics. In some ways, therefore, the Silent Protest fails to promote understandings significant to inclusive citizenship, including understandings of entitlements to non-discriminatory sexual health care services and legal services.
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Exploring the perceptions of community members on contributing factors to rape in selected Mankweng CommunitiesMamabolo, Sekwaila Naum January 2022 (has links)
Thesis (M. A. (Criminology and Criminal Justice)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / This study was conducted to explore the perceptions of community members on contributing factors of rape in the selected Mankweng communities, namely: Mentz, Ga-Makanye and Ga-Thoka, following a qualitative research approach, with an exploratory research design. The non-probability sampling: Purposive sampling was adopted to sample 30 participants. Three Focus Groups Discussions (FGDs), consisting of 10 individuals formed part of this study and the Thematic Content Analysis (TCA) was used for analysis.
The consulted seminal studies were reviewed and coupled with the Differential Risk Model as the adopted theoretical framework, in order to identify different categories that would explain the contributing factors of rape in the selected study locations. From the studies on this subject and information gathered from the selected participants; four (04) major contributing factors to rape in the Mankweng selected areas emerged, demarcated as follows; 1) Structural factors which include men that are raised in families with strong patriarchal structures which are more likely to become violent and force themselves on women because they feel superior to women, 2) Socio-cultural factors which entail the societies that normalise women being violated and rape because they believe that women are inferior to men and should be submissive, 3) Psychological factors consist of all the effects that both the victims and the community endure due to the crime committed; and lastly, 4) Economic factors explain how women are exposed to chances of being raped because of material gains in exchange for sexual favors.
This study recommends that youth in the selected communities should be trained to become peer educators to learn more about rape, understand the associated effects/ impacts on society and potential victims, and programmes should be hosted within these communities to alert residents about the scourge of rape. The study further recommends that the police officials change their attitudes towards the community members and work with them in preventing rape from occurring.
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Secondary victimisation in the court procedures of rape cases : an analysis of four court casesViljoen, Charmell S. 03 1900 (has links)
Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2003. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Violence against women is a serious offence. Emotional and physical abuse can
happen to our daughters, sisters and wives. Rape is a form of violence against
women. It violates a woman's privacy, dignity and it makes her feel as if she has lost
control. The criminal justice system is there to protect the citizens of a country and
this protection should extend to women when they have been violated. The criminal
justice system has different structures, for example the courts, medical services and
police services. The staff of the criminal justice process do not have an inherent duty
to care about rape survivors but they can be trained to treat survivors with
consideration and sympathy to counteract the effects of the rape and secondary
victimization experienced by rape survivors. It is important that there are guidelines
for the staff of the criminal justice system to assist them in rape cases.
This thesis explores whether women experience secondary victimisation during
court proceedings. To assess whether it occurs, court transcripts were analysed with
a focus placed on the background of the court case and the verdicts of the judges.
Findings indicate that secondary victimisation do occur during court cases. Rape
survivors feel as if they are on trial and not the rapist. Survivors furthermore believe
that they will have to live with the label that they had been raped and humiliated.
The thesis recommends that officials of the criminal justice process should receive
extensive training, and looks at the Sexual Offences Court in Wynberg as an
example of an improved system for rape survivors. It is recommended that the
procedures of the Sexual Offences Court should be evaluated on a regular basis to
address secondary victimisation problems that may persist. Communication is very
important during the rape trial. The rape survivor has to be informed about her case
and about the location of the rapist at all times. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geweld teen vroue is 'n ernstige oortreding wat plaasvind in ons samelewing.
Emosionele en fisiese geweld kan gebeur met ons dogters, vroue en susters.
Hierdie vorm van geweld laat vroue voel asof hulle beheer verloor oor hulle lewens
en dit het ook 'n impak op hul self respek en selfbeeld.
Die Kriminele Sisteem van Suid Afrika is daar om die belange van sy inwoners te
beskerm. Dit het verskillende afdelings byvoorbeeld, die mediese dienste, die polisie
en die hof verrigtinge. Die lede van die Kriminele Sisteem werk met verskillende
individue wat voel dat die hof die uitweg sal wees wat geregtigheid sal laat geskied.
Die lede van die Kriminele Sisteem het nie 'n persoonlike verantwoordelikheid
teenoor die verkragtings oorlewendes nie, maar hulle moet sensitiwiteit en empatie
betoon teenoor die dames wat verkrag was. Die gedrag van die personeel speel 'n
groot rol in terme van hoe die vrou wat verkrag was die aangeleentheid verwerk.
Die fokus van die studie is om te kyk of vroue wel sekondêre viktimisering ervaar
wanneer hulle besluit om voort te gaan met die hofsake. Hof transkripsies was
gebruik om te kyk of vroue wel benadeel word. Daar was gekyk na die uitsprake van
die regters sowel as die agtergrond van die hofsaak.
Daar was bevind dat sekondêre viktimisering wel plaasvind gedurende die hof
verrigtinge. Vroue voel asof hulle verantwoordelik is vir die verkragting wat met hulle
gebeur het. Die verkragter word nie gesien as die persoon wat oortree het nie.
Hierdie gevoelens van self blamering vorm deel van sekondêre viktimisering wat
veroorsaak dat vroue sommige kere voel om nie verder te gaan met die hof saak
nie.
Die verskillende lede van die Kriminele Sisteem moet gedurig opleiding verkry wat
hulle in staat sal stel om die gevoelens van die slagoffers in ag te neem. Die howe
wat spesiaal opgerig is om verkragting sake te verhoor moet geevalueer word sodat
dit 'n sukses kan wees. Kommunikasie moet bevorder word tussen die verskillende departemente en nie -regerings organisasies wat 'n rol speel gedurende die hof
sake.
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Experiences of forensic nurses regarding the provision of care to victims of sexual assault in selected public hospitals of Limpopo Province, South AfricaRavhura, Grace Tshilidzi 07 1900 (has links)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of forensic nurses when providing care to victims of sexual assault in selected public hospitals of Limpopo province.
Methods: A qualitative, explorative, descriptive and contextual research design was employed in this study. A sample of 7 registered nurses was purposively selected to partake in in-depth unstructured interviews.
Results: Four themes associated with the experience of providing care to victims of sexual assaults emerged during data analysis. These included (1) psychological experiences of nursing victims of sexual assault, (2) physical challenges associated with implementing the forensic nursing specialty in a clinical setting, (3) psychological coping strategies to deal with challenges experienced, and (4) the experience of managerial support.
Conclusion: Participants reported negative psychological and physical experiences of providing care to victims of sexual assault, which resulted to occupational stress. Recommendations of forensic nurses support guidelines and further research were made. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health Studies)
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