Key Terms
Acquaintance Rape: "Rape occuring between persons who are socially linked." (Brenner, 2013)
Bystander: Someone willing to intervene in an emergency situation. (Foubert, Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Brasfield, & Hill, 2010)
Rape:
(1) "A deliberate violent act or a manifestation of patriarchy." (Brenner, 2013)
(2) "A failure in the mutual process of recognizing another person's humanness - a rupture in the fabric of human recignition." (Brenner, 2013)
(3) "An unwanted sexual experience." (Foubert, Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Brasfield, & Hill, 2010)
Rape Myths: False beliefs ragarding sexual assault. (Hamlin, 2001)
Perpetrator: Person commiting the act of sexual violence.
Rape Myths: "Assumptions about the act of rape and victims that frequently reduce empathy for - and even shifts blame to the victims." (Reece, 2013)
Statutory Rape: When an adult engages in sexual intercourse with a person under the age of eighteen. (Roth, 2011)
Stranger Rape: "Rape where the victim and assaulter had little or no prior relationship." (Brenner, 2013)
Survivor: A "victim" from a more empowered standpoint. (Brenner, 2013)
Victim: Person whom is the receiver of sexual violence.
Victim/Perpetrator Framework: Key Assumptions: (1) The rape perpetrator acts freely and deliberately to harm (2) The rape victom is passive and in no way participates in or contributed to the actions of the perpetrator (3) In every rape, the harm is always traumaizing and directed exclusively from the perpetrator to the victim. (Brenner, 2013)
Victim Survivor: "Accounts for both what has been lost and what remains in the post-rape experience. Both of which are equally important and integral aspects of the healing process." (Jean-Charles, 2014)
Victim Survivor Narrative: A fundamentally processual mode, demonstrating that surviving rape is not an accomplished, but an extended-often unresolved
act. It recognizes that while sexual violence has occurred, the journey thereafter will be full of both successes and failures. Yet, both are vital to re-formation of self- healing is a multidimensional undertaking (Jean-Charles, 2014).
Bystander: Someone willing to intervene in an emergency situation. (Foubert, Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Brasfield, & Hill, 2010)
Rape:
(1) "A deliberate violent act or a manifestation of patriarchy." (Brenner, 2013)
(2) "A failure in the mutual process of recognizing another person's humanness - a rupture in the fabric of human recignition." (Brenner, 2013)
(3) "An unwanted sexual experience." (Foubert, Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Brasfield, & Hill, 2010)
Rape Myths: False beliefs ragarding sexual assault. (Hamlin, 2001)
Perpetrator: Person commiting the act of sexual violence.
Rape Myths: "Assumptions about the act of rape and victims that frequently reduce empathy for - and even shifts blame to the victims." (Reece, 2013)
Statutory Rape: When an adult engages in sexual intercourse with a person under the age of eighteen. (Roth, 2011)
Stranger Rape: "Rape where the victim and assaulter had little or no prior relationship." (Brenner, 2013)
Survivor: A "victim" from a more empowered standpoint. (Brenner, 2013)
Victim: Person whom is the receiver of sexual violence.
Victim/Perpetrator Framework: Key Assumptions: (1) The rape perpetrator acts freely and deliberately to harm (2) The rape victom is passive and in no way participates in or contributed to the actions of the perpetrator (3) In every rape, the harm is always traumaizing and directed exclusively from the perpetrator to the victim. (Brenner, 2013)
Victim Survivor: "Accounts for both what has been lost and what remains in the post-rape experience. Both of which are equally important and integral aspects of the healing process." (Jean-Charles, 2014)
Victim Survivor Narrative: A fundamentally processual mode, demonstrating that surviving rape is not an accomplished, but an extended-often unresolved
act. It recognizes that while sexual violence has occurred, the journey thereafter will be full of both successes and failures. Yet, both are vital to re-formation of self- healing is a multidimensional undertaking (Jean-Charles, 2014).