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The Beginning And End Of Rape By Louise Erdrich

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Minority groups have always been marginalized and bellowed by our current justice system in society within these groups are women, this leads to questioning the role of the justice system in perpetuating violence in for example Native American groups. In the U.S. the justice system has failed to protect these women specifically Native American women from sexual violence, and what worsens the case is that more often than not their attackers are let off easy or escape punishment altogether because of federal, state and tribal jurisdictions. In the Round House by Louise Erdrich which is set in 1988 and in The Beginning and End of Rape by Sarah Deer one can see how the U.S. rape laws fail to provide justice to Native Americans who suffer rape and actually contribute to …show more content…

This is clearly seen when exploring the case of the character Mayla, along with Geraldine’s in the Round House and also analyzing the complications of criminal jurisdiction in Indian country explained in The Beginning and End of Rape. Rape is a crime that continues to obscure the world we live in this continues to be seen in multiple instances and carried through by various different individuals in multiple forms. This is an act in which a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration is carried out against a person without that other person's consent. Rape culture is one that our society is still blinded to and we come to at times ignore the instances it occurs in. That could be because maybe one refuses to believe a loved one could be capable of such monstrosity or at times a victim prefers to stay quiet rather than face the judgment of

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