Research Proposal on Rape

Background and Rationale

To keep children of our society safe and prevent them from suffering from the negative psychological effects of sexual assault in childhood, it is mandatory to teach todays children about healthy relationships and with whom they can feel protected. Also, it is now felt even more important to tell anything suspicious about someone close who wants to harm them and not to keep it a secret even if the person insists or threatens. Various reports worldwide have cited that sexual violence towards children is mostly from their acquaintances or people they know well, in which men abuse females more. In contrast, males have been mistreated by both genders equally. Hence, children of both genders and adolescents are the primary subject of child rape and sexual violence that needs crucial attention for the social and health welfare of the entire community.

Sexual assault could be defined in terms of rape, sexual violence, incest, and commercial sexual exploitation of the victims without their consent, in which children have suffered as well (Murray, Nguyen, and Cohen 321). Each year 1 in every ten children, either girl or boy, have been forcefully involved in a sexual act (Sexual Violence). These are the statistics that have been estimated worldwide, but it is expected that there might be a higher number of cases that go unreported. One hundred twenty million girls have been forced to get involved in such shameful acts by those close to or knew well in the family.

The children suffer physical pain when they have to undergo sexual assault or rape and long-term psychological effects that have serious counseling implications even when they are adults. The psychological effects could be witnessed in the form of anger, crying, rage, sorrow, social isolation, grief, depression, feebleness, vulnerability, panic attacks, anxiety, nightmares, or in extreme cases, suicidal attempts. 33% of the women and 18% of men have been victims of child rape that had cost them their peace even after decades have passed (Hall and Hall). Further, there could be adverse reactions to childhood rape as well, such as the same child when grows up to being an adult might get involved in more powerful sexual actions, exhibiting the unequal power relation between the powerful and the suppressed ones as his trust was betrayed back in the old days (Wohab and Akhtar 144). On the other hand, there could be severe employment complexities for adults who have suffered from sexual violence during their childhood. There could be a serious downfall in their job performance as childs fears could come back to life when they sense something similar at the workplace, showing bad work performance. Additional signs could be the inability to focus, low attention, loss of motivation, anxiety, stress, vulnerability, and lesser association with work peers, leading to social isolation at work. Symptoms of depression could develop at this stage for people who have suffered in their childhood, which could direct them to be reckless towards themselves or people living around them, particularly their family members.

The proposed research topic could be important since it has both macro and micro impacts. In macro terms, each countrys government might have to revise their economic budgets each year to treat children victimized. Research from 2014 suggested that globally $7 trillion economic costs have been incurred on children who have been physically, psychologically, and emotionally assaulted in sexual terms. This requires serious attention from...

Certain ethical issues need to be taken into consideration before conducting mixed-methods research. Two types of ethical concerns should be taken into account as two research methodologies are involved; qualitative and quantitative research. For qualitative research, which is a systematic literature review and its thematic analysis, it is necessary to identify suitable orientation, identify the accurate purpose of the study, search for the relevant and correct literature, evaluate and screen evidence from the shortisted reports, making substantial connections from the past studies with the current research question, and communicating it as well as concisely with the targeted audience of the research report (Suri 42).

Similarly, ethical issues related to the involvement of human participants for the quantitative research section of the current proposed mixed-methods investigation include providing respect for the individuals, doing no harm to them, and offering justice on both individual and societal levels (Yip, Han and Sng 685).

It would be seriously taken care of that participants are informed about the research and its purpose so that their consent is obtained. Even after knowing the cause, any participant who chooses to opt-out of participating in the survey would not be forced to fill out the questionnaire at any cost. Moreover, the possibility of causing any harm would be eliminated to ensure it is entirely the subjects decision to participate. In addition to that, maintaining confidentiality is another important aspect of research involving human participants.

The names, initials, or personal data would be omitted from the survey. They are guaranteed that their names are not used anywhere in the identifiable materials as this may cause discomfort to them. Invitation to participate in survey completion by giving any form of incentives or valuables would also be avoided so that the responses…