Essay --

According to the Victim oriented multi-disciplinary responses to statutory rape training guide, Law enforcement often assigns statutory rape cases a a lot lower priority than incest and forcible rape cases with young children. There is a belief among criminal justice officials that investigation and arrest are a waste of time because prosecutors will not prosecute except in or so egregious cases (Elstein & Smith, 1998). Statutory rape laws should be just as much of a priority as child abuse and forcible rape. Throwing away statutory rape cases is not effective regardless of how hard it is to prosecute. A boor does not know what is best for him or her it should not matter whether or not the victim is willing to testify. If proof that a minor is indeed knotty in a cases where his or her partner is considered an adult by law then that person should be convicted. It is hard to prosecute statutory rape cases because most of the victims are not willing to testify against their partners. The minors involved in the cases are usually in the relationship because they want to be not becaus...