Interest Group Conflict

1
Interest Group Conflict

• America is composed of lopsided interest group
  conflicts
  
• Law is not neutral
• Law is used in interest group conflict more than
  for general well-being
  
• Deviant behavior is a rational learned response
• Supported by traditions and rewards

2
Homicide and guns

• The muder rate is declining but..
• Blacks are 6 times more likely than whites to be
  murdered
  
• 94 percent of Black murder victims were by Blakc
  offenders
  
• 43 percent of murders committed by friends or
  relatives
  
• handguns account for over 50 of the homicides in
  the US
  
• NRA gun control is unconstitutional, people kill
  people, only outlaws will have guns

3
Why the NRA wins

• Congressional monopoly
• The drop in the homicide rate
• Statistics do not exactly express a causal
  relationship between lowering homicide rates and
  gun control
  
• States with concealed weapons allowanaces have
  traditionally lower homicide rates

4
Rape

• NCVS states that 51 percent of female victims
  dont report
  
• Unfounded
• Intoxication
• Delay
• No signs
• No exam
• Relationship
• weapon

5
Rape

• Contributing factors
• The image of men
• The image of women
• The dating game
• Rape as a violent act that happens to be
  sexual
  
• The Davis prison study
• Griffin and cultural expectations

6
Dimensions of Rape

• The confusing stats
• The per persons rate is misleading because 93 of
  rapes are perpetrated upon women
  
• 18 out of every 6,000 women are raped each year,
  reported in NCVS or UCR
  
• Younger women are three times more likely
• For college females, 9 out of 10 offenders were
  known to women
  
• 62 percent by an intimate, relative or
  acquaintance
  
• 83 percent of stranger rape of white women was by
  white men