Does hyper masculinity lead to sexual assault? [Final]

-Hyper masculinity: Very bold, stereotypical male characteristics, e.g. strength, aggression, loud.

Now knowing the description, we can now also ask the questions, does hyper masculinity lead to sexual assault? Is the stereo type even true?  

Many agree that both of these questions are true. For reasons such as this; in sports, males specifically are able to release a large majority of their testosterone, aggressive emotion, and other violent traits. This can lead to hyper masculinity. Actions such as these can bring out the raw male stereo type, which in turn also can lead to homophobia in sports as well. 

What about outside of sports/work environments?  Not all people who are considered to be hyper masculine are large sports players - they can range in any size. 

Statistics from 2009 show that 1 in 5 women have the chance to be sexually assaulted in some form before they graduate post secondary. Most of these women are sedated from alcohol, ketamine, or some other drug; most of the time this would happen in a partying area, such as a college or high school party. 

What causes the majority of males to do this, though? The media most likely has a very well played roll in this question. 

If we take a look at various movies for produced by Disney, for example, it gives us an excellent look at how the male hero character in the movie always rises above and gets some sort of prize - most likely a gorgeous princess. Young boys grow up watching this, letting it subconsciously sink into their heads. 

Therefor, when they grow older and produce the hyper masculinity trait, they too feel as if they deserve the princess. 

Certain thoughts can obviously lead to aggressive actions and sexual assault. This of course could be changed, or at least lower the risk of sexual assault by quite a chunk if we educated our children on sexual assault at an early age, instead of letting television teach them right and wrong.

We cannot only push this topic on women. Men too are sexually assaulted, and while the statistic for male sexual assault is lower than a woman's, they often do not want to tell others, as society does not really choose to accept that males can be sexually assaulted as well.
In the documentary titled 'Sext Up Kids', created by the CBC Doczone, the forty-five minute long presentation does a great job of showing its audience just how the media plays an out of control roll in sexual assault.

The documentary shows us how the media is now using children as models for sex. Toddlers - little girls and boys dressing up in sexual outfits designed for adults.
But it's not just the toddlers being brainwashed. It's the teens as well; on modern television most viewers have access to soft core porn - right on the commercials.
Now we have kids at an early age growing up dressing sexually, acting sexually, and visually embracing a sexual upbringing entirely. And our teenage audience basically watching sex themselves on television, and via pornography.

Another theory would suggest we still have our pre-historic instincts, meaning we take what we want, just like an animal would. Because of doing so, we managed to maintain a population in order to survive.
In conclusion, if you take the social/sexual media and how/what children watch on television and add our prehistoric instincts, it might equal a higher percentage of sexual assault in the near future - unless we can better educate our children on healthy sex, and proper right from wrong. 

Sources

http://lefthookjournal.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/hypermasculinity-and-sexual-abuse-the-silent-lessons-of-penn-state/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/why-campuses-are-too-often-the-scene-of-sex-crimes/article14718995/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carina-kolodny/the-conversation-you-must-have-with-your-sons_b_3764489.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

Criminology 12: Dec.11-12, Questions 1-4

1.) Despite Canada's reputation of being a happy go-lucky nation, even we Canadians have our fair share of hate crimes. While they may not be brutal murders on the streets, or terrorizing an entire community for the sake of it, we instead suffer from a different style.
For example, our young students today have a very high awareness of anti-bullying and homosexual awareness, yet crimes continue to happen. But they are not savage, like others. These crimes could possible be,
-Slandering against homosexual peoples.
-Victimizing a specific ethnic persons.
-Being crude/assaulting an ethnic group.
-Disturbing/Dismantling religious objects.

2.) After the terrorist act on friendly soil, 9/11, the Canadian and American governments were immediately ready to respond. After the devastating attack, all new security systems were to be implemented within all airports. New sensors, cameras, security equipment, etc. But not just the local airports were being upgraded - people themselves took arms and began buying rifles, pistols, and other firearms.
The military generally focused on all aspects of arsenal upgrade - vehicles, weaponry, new explosive proof vests, etc.

3.) While cash is starting to run short due to the new advances in debit/visa machines all over stores, this will not entirely stop criminals - at least not the determined ones.
Identity theft is a very well known crime today, through this crime, the theft of your personal identity cards/information can access various accounts, such as banking, email, or any other online account you may have over time. This can be ultimately more devastating than just stealing twenty-five dollars.
If society is advancing, so will the crime with it.

4.) Most people today are well educated of what a certain thug can look like. Then again, that certain thug might also know what his victim looks like; someone who is generally a young adult. If they don't have cash on them, they thief may take something else of value, such as a cell phone, or piece of jewelry.

Marc Lépine: Why and How?

History: 
Marc Lépine was born on October 26th, 1964, Montreal, Canada. He died on December 6th of 1989. This man even now, has been considered the deadly criminal ever in Canada, in regards to his sinister crime known today as the 'Montreal Massacre'.
The horrendous event began on December 6th, 1989. The same date as his death, one could probably predict his final outcome.

The Crime: How? 
During a school day at École Polytechnique, the University of Montreal, an educational institution at the time with over 6,000+ enrolled students - the school itself was focused on engineering, clearly a place for the brightest. But that was about to be interrupted by Marc, as he entered the building wielding a large hunting knife and armed with a Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic carbine. He killed fourteen women, all of which separated from the males of the school before he cried out,
"I hate women." and then later shot himself, leaving a suicide note as well.

Conclusion: Why?
Marc was described as a very shy, quiet man who was usually in an foul mood when around women, even commanding of them. Reports describe the killers father as a brutally abusive man; he was not known to have any sort of real love life.
Many do not know the entire reasoning for his heinous crime, however, it was clear the attack was targeted towards women.



Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-lepine-235980
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/marc_lepine/index.html
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/society/crime-justice/the-montreal-massacre/expert-describes-weapon-lepine-used.html
http://murderpedia.org/male.L/l/lepine-marc.htm

Clifford Olson: Why and how?

History: 
Clifford Robert Olson Junior was born during the second world war on January 1st, 1940, new years day. An incredibly rare date of birth, one that St. Paul's hospital in Vancouver, B.C. had to be cursed with.
This being said because the birth of Clifford Olson was not one of a hero, but of a serial killer.
People who may have known him at the time would have perhaps described him as relatively daft, or child-like. During his younger years, a ten year old Clifford was already a recognizable name around Vancouver's crime list. By the age of seventeen, Olson would have been in and out of prison along with court sentences on a regular basis - and for twenty more years, he would continue to be a criminal offender.
However much changed during his arrest in the 1971-1981 time frame. While in prison, Clifford Olson had a bad reputation with not only the inmates, but the guards as well. He was a master of manipulating the prison system, using it to write complaints off to the government, often times speaking of how bad the conditions in prison were and how annoying the other inmates were.
Of course, the other inmates caught word of this, making Clifford Olson a marked target. Over his sentence, he was stabbed seven times; and as prison protocol would have it, Olson was moved to Prince Albert's in 1976. This is where he would discover and befriend Gary Marcoux.
During his time spent with Marcoux, Clifford would learn of his horrible crimes in raping, molesting, and murdering a young girl. This is also where Olson would find a new love for child pornography. He died in September of 2011.

Overview of murders: How?
Clifford Olson was found guilty of eleven murders, while he boasted over thirty, police could only find evidence of around eleven.These murders consisted of eight young girls and three young boys, mostly in the pre-teen/teenager time frame. He mainly went about killing these young children by manipulating them somehow to come with him to a secluded location before he had his way with them, and killed them in some way.

Conclusion of Olson: Why?
Over his time spent in prison, he was tested on various psychological reports and tests. He was a sociopath, pedophile, anti-social behavior, as well as a pathological liar. Something most serial killers have in common.
He had no reports of feeling remorse, guilt or stress, but did however love making an image for himself through the evil crimes he committed.

Sources
http://home.cogeco.ca/~mrcarle/OLSON.HTM
http://www.allserialkillers.com/clifford_olson.htm
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/09/30/18764721.html
http://www.torontosun.com/2011/09/21/timeline-for-killer-clifford-olson

Victimization.

Question 2: Dec2
-Victim Household's can often tell us whether or not the residence has a higher chance of being part of victimization, however homes with an annual salary of over $60,000 have a higher chance of property theft - apartments remain at the low for crime. Most likely due to the multiple witnesses living inside one building.

-Social Status within Canada can also determine your chance of being victimized. Statistics show that where the wealthy are often targets of property theft, the less fortunate are often times victims of sexual assualt.

-Repeat Victimization often begs the question of whether or not prior victimization increase, or decrease the chance of being a victim in the future - or a criminal. Often times households with experience in victimization will encounter it again most likely.

-Race/Martial status can often times attract certain discomfort. For example, compared to most places in Europe, when most ethnicity enter Canada, they may find themselves being discriminated as part of a hate crime. This can even happen with trans-gender marriages.

Question 3:
"Is school the most dangerous place for youth today?"
To some degree, I will have to agree. While not all schools are terrible, some actually very respectable, the amount of public schools with issues related to bullying, drug use, along with other troubles, school is without a doubt one of, if not the most dangerous place for youth today.
Mind you, that does not mean it will forever be a dangerous place. People just have to not be jocks and prostitots.

Crim. 12: Impact of Crime

 Constable Jogn Zivcic from Toronto Police Force finds himself in critical condition Monday afternoon after following a serious car crash.
After being in critical condition until Tuesday morning, John passed away with his family at his side. His coworkers on the force, along with friends all grieve and send prayers out for his family, though his family will grieve way more than his friends; they may even suffer from this traumatic loss. For example, as most victims of crime suffer a long or short term side effect, this family could now suffer depression, long-term stress, etc.

In a fake story, rather one that was made up as a prank, a husband fakes his own death in a car crash in order to propose to his fiance. Now, while this is only a prank, we can still take a look at the side effects of the loss.
She obviously reacts to the crime and grows hysterical/emotional. Much like anyone would do after losing a loved one; again, the side effects could following as PTSD and even depression.


http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2013/12/02/21309286.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4520472/man-fakes-own-death-proposes-to-girlfriend.html

Social Learning Theory

Social Learning Theory suggests that people develop motivation to commit crime and develop the skills to do so by the people they are associated with. (http://sociology.about.com 2013)
An example of this would be to take a well known, low-class area, perhaps Detroit. Look at that city, as it is very well known for its criminal reputation. And in order for most residence to make a living or survive in such poor living conditions, most, as the theory would suggest, develop a new found sense of motivation to acquire certain items for personal, or even party gain.

Perhaps those criminals become drug lords, crime syndicate leaders within the area; and after a time, people who are in debt to those big time criminals will work for them, also committing crime. In another example, there could be three large criminal gangs in the area, all with 'workers' in them. Certain actions may be taken to eliminate the competition, creating more violence and crime.

While observing examples similar to the ones above, you can grasp a stronger idea of the Social Learning theory. Although, this theory may not apply to -all- cases of crime.
Further into the theory, it states that the 'differential reinforcement of crime', meaning people can teach others how to engage in crime by reinforcing or punishing certain behaviors.
It also states that crime is more likely to occur when it is infrequently punished, results in large amounts of reinforcement [money, approval, etc.]

However, that is not all the whole Social Learning theory suggests. It also tells us that over a wide range of surveys, they not believe people commit crime by teaching others to favor a crime. While most participate in 'soft drugs', gambling, and other forms of under age substance abuse.
Overall the theories meaning is crime spreads through people, by teachings. It's like a plague.
(http://criminology.wikia.com/wiki/Social_Learning_Theory)
(http://sociology.about.com/od/Sociological-Theory/a/Social-Learning-Theory.htm)