Sexual Assault and Immediate Punishment: An Annotated Bibliography

This annotated bibliography explores the complex issue of sexual assault and whether it should be punished immediately. It examines three research articles that offer different perspectives on the topic. The first article focuses on how jurors are influenced by schemas in sexual assault cases, p...Read More

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Research question: should the sexual assault be punished immediately?
Stuart, S. M., McKimmie, B. M., & Masser, B. M. (2019). Rape perpetrators on trial: The
effect of sexual Assault–Related schemas on attributions of blame. Journal of Interpersonal
Violence, 34(2), 310-336. doi:10.1177/0886260516640777
The author of this article is Stuart, McKimmie and Masser, (2019), who have shown that the
jurors are actually influenced by the multiple schemas in cases of unproven sexual assaults. This
paper is published in 2019 which serves within the timeliness. This paper does nit have any type
of grammatical error or typographical errors as it is a peer reviewed one. The authors have
pointed out the stereotypical offence of sexuality. This paper includes offence stereotypes and
victim stereotypes. As the victims stereotypically seem to be matter of most acquaintance
assaults. This paper is relevant because the topic is chosen here is the guilt of sexual assault
which escaped punishment. In this paper also address the same issue how it affects the juror held
schema on the attribution of blames in the cases of sexual assault. This paper however finds out
that perpetrator stereotypes cannot influence the perceptions the stereotypical transgression
scenarios.
Klettke, B., Mellor, D., & Hallford, D. (2018). The effects of victim age, perceiver gender,
and parental status on perceptions of victim culpability when girls or women are sexually
abused. Violence Against Women, 24(6), 650-667. doi:10.1177/1077801217717355
On the contrary the article by Klettke, Mellor and Hallford (2018) have put importance on the
victim culpabilities of the sexual assault cases. This study is published in the past year and does
not support the idea pf punishing the accused of the sexual assaults directly but focuses on the
various factors as the result of the sexual assault. This study is based on an online survey on 420
jury eligible participants. Biased on this research the authors have pointed out that the
victimisation or the blame of sexual assault highly depends upon age, clothes, promiscuity and
resistance of the abused. This paper contrary to the idea of punishing the accused is perfectly
relevant because the topic chosen here is the guilt of sexual assault which escaped punishment
and this particular paper throws light on the factors supporting the case of Ghomeshi where he
was cleared of his charges against him.
Watkins, K., Bennett, R., Zamorski, M. A., & Richer, I. (2017). Military-related sexual
assault in canada: A cross-sectional survey. CMAJ Open, 5(2), E496-E507.
doi:10.9778/cmajo.20160140
This paper by Watkins et al. (2017) has properly identified how the high profile or powerful
people in spite of being accused of sexual assault, can avoid punishment. This paper is based on
the cross-sectional survey where the accused of sexual assault are mostly military persons but the
abused or victims of these sexual assaults either get frightened to record their abuse or do not

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respond to the survey. This paper has assed the cases of sexual assault relating to the military
services and the case of mental disorders due to sexual harassment associated with the military
personnel. The paper is published in 2017, which captures the incidents of this time having more
or less same situations for one or two years. This paper as well as its subject has perfect
relevance with the research question, as this paper has defined the lifetime military associated
sexual assaults as the forced sexual activities or some annoying sexual touching that took place
on the deployment and in other military workplaces. All of these issues are associated with the
actions of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces personnel.