Rape and Sexual Assault Cases on College Campus

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Rape and Sexual Assault Cases on College Campus
Sexual assault is a prevalent problem in many colleges, and many victims do not have adequate resources to access justice (Goldberg 13). Females are the main victims and males particularly students are the main culprits. In a study conducted by White House Task Force, about 20% of female college students suffer from sexual assault (Mantel 916). The same data indicate that only a few female students have the courage to disclose their story. The fear of reporting sexual abuse incidents result from the fact that most of the victims feel that even when they report, the attacker will not receive meaningful punishments. Although these crimes warrant a jail sentence, most of the perpetrators walk freely in the compound where they committed a crime. Mantel (2014) affirms that 25% of colleges do not provide adequate training to staff on how to address sexual assault issues and a third of these institutions do not offer specialized education to professionals responsible for investigating and offering verdicts on sexual abuse cases (Mantel 918). Current mechanisms do not deliver justice to the victim but mainly benefit the criminals. Some of the shocking forms of punishment include writing apology letters to the college administration or an order to leave campus housing. In some instances, the culprits undergo sessions of counseling funded by schools. Slamming these forms of punishment on heinous crime will not serve justice to the victims. The actions made by rapists will probably haunt victims for the entire of their lives (Guerette and Sandra 34). However, the colleges’ unjust decisions to let criminals walk freely without a meaningful punishment is the worst thing to happen in sexual assault cases. Federal Bureau of the investigation, an organization tasked with security services and domestic intelligence in the United States, considers rape as one of the most abominable crimes, only second to murder. It is therefore totally abysmal that a crime regarded as one of the most heinous acts is disciplined by college administration who only sanction inadequate punishments (Guerette and Sandra 40). It is apparent that an increase in sexual assaults incidences in colleges is attributable to mishandling, dismissing, and inadequate punishment to aggressors, subsequently promoting a culture where rape is viewed as a norm in society. One of the most effective ways of destroying the harmful rape culture and eradicating sexual abuse in colleges is through prevention and awareness campaigns as well as cooperation between school administrations and authorities to bring perpetrators to book (Gillibrand 30). Colleges that are not seeking justice for rape and sexual assault victims are devaluing them.
Many universities and colleges assign untrained workers with tasks to address the issues connected to rape and sexual assault crimes. By doing this, they create an outcome of partial consequences, whereby victims do not receive the justice they deserve. Mantel (2014) indicates that some of the punishment devised by such employees are unreasonable. She states that despite the presence of sufficient evidence, aggressors receive some ridiculous pen...