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positive trends are evident among victims of this category of crime, reporting levels remain strikingly low. Statistics published by the RCNI demonstrate that an increasing number of users of its service are reporting the crime committed against them to police, with 18% reporting in 2007 and 27% reporting in 2009 (Hanly et al., 2009 : 11). The number of victims of sexual violence reporting to police in 2014 had risen to 33% (RCNI, 2014 : 23). Interestingly, 3% reported exclusively to another formal authority including the Redress Board, Health Services Executive
better explored and depicted than in Mad Men , a show about marketing executives that focuses on the daily gendered discrimination of the American workplace, and which finds its grizzly culmination in rape. That such sexual violence is barely acknowledged, never mind pivotal, speaks to the relative normalisation of abuse as part of the everyday fabric of life in 1960s America. The ‘mad women’ of Mad Men may have been on the verge of second-wave feminism, but theirs is an experience that is, on the whole, deeply uncomfortable for the audience. 15 To watch the show
(ed.), Breaking Bad and Philosophy , p. 9, summarising B. Faucette, ‘Taking Control: Male Angst and the Re-Emergence of Hegemonic Masculinity in Breaking Bad’, in Pierson (ed.), Breaking Bad and Philosophy , pp. 73–86. 47 Ibid . 48 Wille, ‘“I am the one who knocks!”’, p. 18. 49 Faucette, ‘Taking Control’. 50 Pearson, ‘Introduction’, p. 9. 51 Logan, Breaking Bad and Dignity . 52 Ibid . 53 S. Joy, ‘Sexual Violence in Serial Form: Breaking Bad Habits on TV’, Feminist Media Studies (2017), 2. See also A. Gunn, ‘I have a character issue
disciplines, as part of the cultural and reflexive turns, and with wider social shift around feminist politics and the body (e.g. abortion, contraception and sexual violence). This ran concurrent with a ‘welling up’ of curiosity about the social implications of emotions (Davidson and Milligan, 2004 : 523), and recognition of their ‘power to transform the shape of our lives, expanding or contracting our horizons’ (Davidson, Bondi and Smith, 2007 : 1). What emerged was an attuned interest in not how the body and mind sit apart, but how they co-exist and converse. Emotions
victim support organisations’ (Kilcommins et al., 2010 : 172). For victims who do not report, the various support organisations are an important source of information, advice and services. There are a wide variety of support organisations in Ireland that offer specialist support to victims of all types of crime. The most prominent support organisations are perhaps those that support victims of sexual violence (e.g. Rape Crisis Centres, or OneinFour, which supports adult survivors of child sexual abuse) or domestic abuse (e.g. Women's Aid, ADAPT or AMEN, which
committees, reappointed at the start of each session. The House also makes use of temporary or ad hoc committees, appointed usually for the lifetime of a session. As we have noted, it uses ad hoc committees for post-legislative scrutiny. It also utilises them to examine particular issues. In the three sessions from 2014–15 to 2016–17, it appointed committees on affordable childcare, the Arctic, digital skills, social mobility, the built environment, sexual violence in conflict, charities, financial exclusion, and the long-term sustainability of the National Health Service
lower than North Korea. 22 And, in a statistic that defies belief, at the height of the Syrian Civil War, Syrians were still likely to outlive residents of eight Baltimore neighbourhoods. 23 Children in Baltimore suffer some of the worst urban rates globally for sexual violence, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, and depression. Baltimore still has the highest incarceration rate in the country. 24 But, shockingly, in many respects this is a national story. By several measures, Baltimore is not an outlier: it is a typical city for racial income
: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999); S. Sarah Soh, The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008); Naoko Kumagai (translated by David Moble), The Comfort Women: Historical, Political, Legal and Moral Perspectives (Tokyo: International House of Japan, 2016). 45 Pingchao Zhu, Wartime Culture in Guilin, 1938–1944 (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015). 46 Bradford A. Lee, Britain and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–39: A Study in the Dilemmas of British Decline (Stanford: Stanford
States v. Morrison (2000, another 5–4 ruling), the Court struck down a core provision of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which stated: ‘All persons within the United States shall have the right to be free from crimes of violence motivated by gender’. This allowed women to sue their attackers in federal court. The Constitution, the Court asserted, did not permit the federal government to make laws on matters, such as sexual violence, that were the prerogatives of the states. As Chief Justice William
excitement was probably his, rather than theirs’. Walkowitz, although writing from an academic standpoint, still wrote with half an eye on the present, in that she expressed the belief that lessons could be learnt from the past. Today, as in the past, feminists struggle to devise an effective strategy to combat sexual violence and humiliation … In this cultural milieu, we feminists have to come to grips with the painful historic contradictions of feminist sexual strategies not only for the sex workers … but for ourselves. 66 This passage indicates that