Sex Crimes FAQs

What are the aggravating and mitigating factors?

Aggravating factors are components such as criminal history and the seriousness of the crime proposing the demand for a more severe discipline. Mitigating factors then again, will support a more merciful sentence.

What are techniques used by perpetrators of domestic violence?

Typically, these techniques happen to be:

• Dominance: These individuals need to feel in complete control of the relationship. They are those who make family decisions, tell others what to do, and insist that others obey without opposition. Your offender may treat people like a servant, or even as their possession. Humiliation: The abuser will do everything in his power to make the victim feel bad about themselves. Insults, private and public degradation are often weapons used to erode self-esteem and make the victim feel powerless. Isolation: This tactic is used to increase the dependency of the victim, to cut any link with anyone else but the abuser and can even prevent the relationship with family or friends, or not let the victim attend school or work. You must have their approval for anything to be done. Threats: Abusers generally utilize threats to keep individuals frightened or alarmed. They might threaten to harm or kill you, your children, other relatives, or even pets. They may also threaten the victimized individual with suicide or false charges. Bullying: They might use a broad array of intimidating strategies designed to terrify and bring the exploited person into submission. Such tactics include making aggressive looks or alarming gestures, crushing things, destroying property, damage to pets or use of weapons. The discernible message is that overlooking these behaviors will only bring brutal, sometimes even fatal consequences. Denial of guilt: These people are masters at creating excuses to what is inexcusable. They justify their behavior on an awful day, terrible childhood and even on the casualty of their abuse. This person minimizes the abuse or may even deny the blame and turn it on others.

How can I help someone who has been a victim of a sexual offense?

To help someone who has endured such bad experience, it is essential to listen and make sure the individual feels comfortable. Going to the police, hospitals, receiving advice from group therapies and looking for a lawyer who will advise them properly in such cases is imperative. It is also very important to convey the fact that it is not the victim's fault and it is natural to feel angry and/or embarrassed.

How can someone know what happened was rape?

There are a few things to consider such as the ˜age of consent of the participant (based on state law), the mental and legal capacity of each individual to consent, and whether or not someone has forced or used physical force to make the victim have physical contact with him or her.

If the victim was unconscious or asleep is it still rape?

Rape can take place while the victim is unconscious or asleep, which means the person wasnt aware of what was happening therefore he or she didnt give consent. When the individual doesnt give consent its called rape.

What is kidnapping?

It means using force to take and confine someone against their will, which is a crime punishable in Florida by life sentence. These charges are aggressively pursued by law enforcement officials in the state as this is not a charge to be taken slightly. Individuals wrongly accused of this crime should find an experienced attorney to represent them.

What are the types of sexual harassment in the workplace?

There are two of them:

• Quid pro quo sexual harassment: where the employee is required to yield to the sexual demands otherwise he or she will lose his/her job. Hostile environment sexual harassment: this means being harassed by an employee because of his or her gender to the point where the atmosphere at work becomes a bit hostile.

Who is protected from sexual harassment in the workplace?

Under state and federal laws both male and female employees are fully protected against sexual harassment at work whether at a small or big company. Although under federal law both same sex and opposite sex harassment are prohibited, not all states have laws that defend same sex harassment.