Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police academy instructors often tell recruits learning to handle sexual crimes about a woman who was severely beaten and raped. The victim was incapable of discussing the incident for a month and a half afterwards, and she could not talk about her assailant for three months. After she did describe him, the man was finally arrested...
...matter how good the officer-victim rapport, the process can take time. Sullivan says she does not expect immediate results when she begins an interview, adding that many victims are hysterical--"they couldn't even tell you their name." She tries to calm them and see that they receive treatment for cuts, bruises and possible veneral disease or pregnancy. While she gets a detailed account of the attack--state law recognizes different degrees of rape, so she must determine exactly what kind of attack occurred--another unit officer may collect evidence, such as hair, semen or a cigarette butt. Although...
University Health Services also provides counseling as long as the victim wants it, Nadja B. Gould, a psychiatric social worker, is on call 24 hours a day to give immediate, confidential counseling. Rape victims, Gould says, often tell her they feel numb, off-balanced and slightly paralyzed. "One use of counseling is to get people back to using their coping mechanisms and regaining their sense of self-esteem. How that happens is different with each woman," Gould says...
...With the victim's permission, the rape is reported to the sensitive crimes unit, President Horner and Marlyn Lewis, assistant dean for coeducation, who handles sexual harassment cases. Gould says all the Cambridge victims she has counseled were willing to report attacks, although a few preferred to remain anonymous. But, she adds, only one in five rapes nationwide is reported. And Sullivan says that at Harvard, "I hear rumors of rapes, but I never see the victim. I just hear it through the grapevine...
...viewer of his/her violent instincts? Innumerable studies in the last 50 years say yes, no, maybe to all three questions. It obviously depends on the state of the individual viewer (frustrated, placid, volatile), the style of violence (restrained, perfunctory, Iyrical, lingering, graphic), the filmmaker's attitude toward the victims and violators (a likable killer, empathetic victim, etc.), and other assorted immeasurables...