Essays Tagged: "Statutory rape"

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

lson, who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape. It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off from hav ...

(3 pages) 156 1 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

is ability to undermine the rules and regulations of his ward. After being sent to jail for alleged statutory rape, McMurphy fakes insanity to relieve himself of backbreaking prison labor. After the p ...

(3 pages) 101 0 3.0 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

lson, who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape. It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that he could get off from hav ... played jack nickolson admitted into mental institution medical testing after having been convicted statutory rape obvious that only faking thought that could from having serve sentence work camp pret ...

(4 pages) 62 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Sex Offenders and their actions

do commit usually falls into two categories. The first is having sex with underage males, which is statutory rape, and the second one is where these females punish the male teen or child and this pun ...

(5 pages) 103 1 3.6 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sex & Sexuality

Profile of Randle McMurphy from "Cuckoo's Nest"

mentally ill? Most certainly not. But is he dangerous? Evidently yes. McMurphy is under custody for statutory rape of an innocent, 'willing' 15 year old girl. Presumably, he pretends to be mentally un ...

(3 pages) 25 0 5.0 Feb/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Statutory Rape.

According to the "criminology textbook", the term "statutory rape" refers to sexual relations between an underage minor female and an adult male. Altho ... ." The state mandates that a male, 21 or over, having sex with a female, 14 and under is considered statutory rape. However, if the male was under the assumption the female was of legal age, should he ... held liable? I feel he should not, and, let us examine some of the reasons why this law was enacted.Statutory rape laws have a checkered past. The primary purpose was to protect the virginity of young ...

(3 pages) 101 3 4.3 Aug/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Human Rights

The Problem: Statutory Rape.

There are a few problems with the current law on statutory rape. First of all the law is confusing. The current law is: "when someone of or over the ... meone of or over the age of consent has sex with someone below the age of consent, it is considered statutory rape." (http://www.loveandlearn.com/questions). What is the official age of consent? There ... th Dakota it is 18 (http://www.ageofconsent.com). The second problem with the current law regarding statutory rape is that it gets a lot of young couples into major legal trouble. The third is that th ...

(3 pages) 42 0 4.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

Injustice

a fair trial? In 1992, my friend's brother who was 26 years old at the time when he was accused of statutory rape. The victim was a 17 years old girl. For the purpose of this essay, I'd like to refer ... this case. His attorney did nothing to defend him in Court but took the fee. Sone was convicted of statutory rape and sentenced to 3 to 5 years in the State Prison. Sone had served three full years, ...

(3 pages) 21 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

e Randle Patrick McMurphy was admitted into the hospital instead of spending a sentence in jail for statutory rape. McMurphy was quite a hit with the patients he was a gambler and introduced many new ...

(3 pages) 13 0 0.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Trials of the Scarlett Letter

Trial 1 In trial number 1 the jury found the defendant John proctor guilty to the charge of statutory rape, and innocent to the assault charges, innocent to child neglect charges. When finding ... d innocent to the assault charges, innocent to child neglect charges. When finding a verdict on the statutory rape charge the jury looked at the defenses reasoning that was John Proctor was not in his ...

(2 pages) 1007 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Should child rapists be eligible for the death penalty?

refore, committing these acts upon a child is considered unlawful sexual intercourse, also known as statutory rape. Capital punishment, also know as the death penalty or execution, is "the killing of ...

(8 pages) 20 0 0.0 May/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues > Death Penalty

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest – Some Thoughts on The Movie

son,] who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape is an interesting character that reveals to us the nature of the human mind. It is ob ...

(4 pages) 5 0 0.0 Apr/2011

Subjects: Literature Research Papers