Criminal Law

By Germain Pole Pole Mulumeoderhwa

Rape is a blatant crime with devastating consequences for its victims. Perceived as a weapon of war often used in times of armed conflict, the most visible perverse effect of this atrocity, of which women are permanent victims in the eastern DRC, is the destruction of the victim's body, which ipso facto requires reconstructive surgery. Its effects are moral and physical. As a result, rape is a factor that hinders the reciprocal adaptation between a person and his or her environment, with stigmatization and discrimination constituting an obstacle to the maintenance of his or her psychological balance. However, unlike the evaluation of the physical damage for which the courts readily grant compensation. The evaluation of the moral prejudice resulting from the rape remains ambiguous because of their complexity, their nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6205764776
• ISBN13: 9786205764770
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"