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Books on: rape law

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Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law

Book by Kathryn Gravdal; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991

Subjects:

France--Social Conditions--987-1515, French Literature--To 1500--History And Criticism, Law, Medieval, Rape In Literature, Rape Victims In Literature, Rape--Law And Legislation--France--History, Sex Crimes In Literature, Women And Literature--France--History, Women--France--Crimes Against--History, Women--France--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500. 3. Rape -- Law and legislation -- France -- History...2. The Poetics of Rape Law: Chretien de Troyess Arthurian...1985 : 361-73, and "The Poetics of Rape Law in Medieval France," in Rape and...
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Law and the Language of Identity: Discourse in the William Kennedy Smith Rape Trial

Book by Gregory M. Matoesian; Oxford University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Conduct Of Court Proceedings--United States, English Language--Discourse Analysis, Rape--Psychological Aspects, Semantics (Law), Trials (Rape)--Florida--Palm Beach

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Matoesian uses the notorious 1991 rape trial of William Kennedy Smith to provide an indepth analysis of language use and its role in that trial and the law more generally.
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Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent

Book by Susan Ehrlich; Routledge, 2001

Subjects:

English Language--Discourse Analysis, Language And Sex, Rape--Language, Semantics (Law)

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Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguistics. Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and aquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions are often the ...
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Representing Rape is the first feminist analysis of the language of sexual assault trials from the perspective of linguistics. Ehrlich argues that language is central to all legal settings - specifically sexual harassment and aquaintance rape hearings where linguistic descriptions are often the only basis upon which juries and judges determine a verdict. In such contexts, language is not a neutral and transparent reflection of the world, but rather helps to construct the character of the people and events under investigation.The book is based around a case study of the trial of a male student accused of two instances of sexual assault in two different settings: a university tribunal and a criminal trial. This case is situated within international studies on rape trials and is relevant to the legal systems of the US, Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Ehrlich shows how culturally-dominant notions about rape percolate through the talk of sexual assault cases in a variety of settings and ultimately shape their outcome. Ehrlich hopes that to understand rape trials in this way is to recognize their capacity for change. By highlighting the underlying preconceptions and prejudices in the language of courtrooms today, this important book paves the way towards a fairer judicial system for the future.
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Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan

Book by Catherine Burns; RoutledgeCurzon, 2005

Subjects:

Rape--Japan, Sex Crimes--Japan, Sex Discrimination Against Women--Law And Legislation--Japan, Sex Discrimination In Justice Administration--Japan, Women--Crimes Against--Japan, Women--Violence Against--Japan

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Catherine Burns provides a detailed examination of judicial decision-making in Japanese cases involving sexual violence. She describes the social factors that heavily influence attitudes towards sex crime & includes an analysis of specific case studies.
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Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South

Book by Diane Miller Sommerville; University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Subjects:

Rape--Southern States--History--19th Century, Southern States--Race Relations--History--19th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

...permission: I Was Very Much Wounded: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South...between a Woman and a Female Child: Rape Law, Children, and the Antebellum South...Shall Suffer Death: Black-on-White Rape Law in the Early South 72 4 The...

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Journal Articles on: rape law

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Predicting the Effect of Italy's Long-Awaited Rape Law Reform on "The Land of Machismo."

Journal article by Amy Jo Everhart; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 31, 1998

Subjects:

Law reform--Forecasts, Rape--Laws, regulations, etc., Sociological jurisprudence--Analysis

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...the effect of Italys long-awaited rape law reform on "the land of machismo...Italys outdated and controversial rape law, a law written under the influence...achievements, including an overhaul of his rape law? More importantly, how are the men...
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Reveille for Congress: A Challenge to Revise Rape Law in the Military

Journal article by Alexander N. Pickands; William and Mary Law Review, Vol. 45, 2004

Subjects:

Coercion (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Duress (Law)--Laws, regulations and rules, Military personnel--Laws, regulations and rules, Rape--Laws, regulations and rules, Uniform Code of Military Justice--U.C.M.J. 120

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...for Congress: A Challenge to Revise Rape Law in the Military. by Alexander...The United States militarys rape law does not effectively prevent sexual...a signal to Congress that military rape law needs to change. This Note argues...
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Statutory Rape Law and Enforcement in the Wake of Welfare Reform

Journal article by Rigel Oliveri; Stanford Law Review, Vol. 52, 2000

Subjects:

Rape--Economic aspects, Status offenders--Laws, regulations, etc., Teenage parents--Economic aspects, Teenage pregnancy--Economic aspects, Welfare reform--Influence

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Statutory rape law and enforcement in the wake of welfare...statutory rape laws at all. I. STATUTORY RAPE LAW, PAST AND PRESENT Throughout history...some scholars to conclude that statutory rape law served more to protect girls chastity than...
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A Contemporary Look at the Effects of Rape Law Reform: How Far Have We Really Come?

Journal article by Ronet Bachman, Raymond Paternoster; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 84, 1993

Subjects:

Acquaintance rape--Analysis, Prison sentences--Analysis, Rape victims--Laws, regulations, etc., Rape--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...contemporary look at the effects of rape law reform: how far have we really come...diverse coalition, the intended goals of rape law reform have not always been clear...important intended consequence of rape law reform was largely symbolic and ideological...
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Turning Girls into Women: Re-evaluating Modern Statutory Rape Law

Journal article by Michelle Oberman; Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 85, 1994

Subjects:

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Analysis, Feminist jurisprudence--Analysis, Rape--Analysis

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...women: re-evaluating modern statutory rape law by Michelle Oberman...assumptions underlying modern statutory rape law by contrasting them both with other...Section I analyzes modem statutory rape law, and documents and evaluates the decriminalization...

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Magazine Articles on: rape law

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Rape Victim Can Claim Privacy Invasion; Can't Use Statute

Magazine article; News Media & the Law, Vol. 15, 1991

Subjects:

Mass Media--Law And Legislation--United States--Periodicals

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...area papers ran stories reporting that a rape had occurred, but not identifying the victim...State." It is a misdemeanor to violate the law and the maximum penalty is three years in...Dorman may benefit from its enforcement, the law is primarily for protection of the public...
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Beyond 'No Means No': Redefining Date Rape

Magazine article by Cathy Young; Insight on the News, Vol. 9, August 16, 1993

Subjects:

Acquaintance rape--Laws, regulations, etc., Consent (Law)--Laws, regulations, etc.

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...extensive reference to radical feminist literature on acquaintance rape, held that "any act of sexual penetration engaged in by the defendant...act of penetration" meets the definition of force required by law, and that there was "no burden on the alleged victim to have...
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Back in 1993, Jose Ernesto Medellin, a Mexican National Who Had Spent Most of His Life in This Country, Participated in the Gang Rape and Murder of Two Texas Girls, One 16 and the Other 14

Magazine article; National Review, Vol. 59, November 5, 2007

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Gang rape--Cases, Murder--Cases, President of the United States--Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

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...Spent Most of His Life in This Country, Participated in the Gang Rape and Murder of Two Texas Girls, One 16 and the Other 14. Back...spent most of his life in this country, participated in the gang rape and murder of two Texas girls, one 16 and the other 14. The U...
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Rape by Soldiers-Isn't That Persecution? Many Women Asylum-Seekers Are Victims of Savage Sexual Violence, but Are Denied Refuge in the UK Because Their Cases Are Unrecognised by British Asylum Law

Magazine article by Natasha Walter; New Statesman, Vol. 135, May 15, 2006

Subjects:

Asylum, Right of--Political aspects, Refugees--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Refugees--Civil rights, Right of asylum--Political aspects, Women's rights--Political aspects

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Rape by Soldiers-Isnt That Persecution? Many...Cases Are Unrecognised by British Asylum Law. by Natasha Walter Angelique...despite good evidence about the way that rape is used as a method of political persecution...persecution for the purposes of asylum law. British asylum law follows the UN Refugee...
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Enforcing "Statutory Rape"?

Magazine article by Michael W. Lynch; Public Interest, Summer 1998

Subjects:

Rape--Laws, regulations, etc., Teenage pregnancy--Social aspects, Teenage sex offenders--Laws, regulations, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...partners that reinvigorated statutory-rape-law enforcement. In order to arrest the...Planning Perspectives. In "Can Statutory Rape Law Be Effective in Preventing Adolescent...the purpose of enforcing a statutory-rape law is to ensure that the same 20-year-old...

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Newspaper Articles on: rape law

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Ms Harman Is Right to Focus on Rape Law

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), August 5, 2009

Subjects:

Rape--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Ms Harman Is Right to Focus on Rape Law. HARRIET HARMAN deserves congratulation...policing than with problems in the law itself. Many victims say that police are slow in responding to a report of rape, inefficient in gathering crucial evidence...
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Binge Drinkers Need Rape Law Safeguards - CPS

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 26, 2006

Subjects:

Rape--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Binge Drinkers Need Rape Law Safeguards - CPS. Byline: By Richard...Police. The national conviction rate for rape is only six per cent. Under current interpretations of the law, drunken women are deemed to be capable...
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Judges Revolt over Rape Law to Protect Drunken Women

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 24, 2007

Subjects:

Judges--Laws, regulations and rules, Judges--Political activity, Judges--Political aspects, Rape--Laws, regulations and rules, Rape--Political aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Judges Revolt over Rape Law to Protect Drunken Women...would have to enforce the law, also opposed other aspects...attempt to increase the rape conviction rate, which...determined to change the law, describing the rape conviction rate as unacceptable...
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Rape Law May Be Toughened to Safeguard Drunk Women

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 16, 2006

Subjects:

Rape--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Rape Law May Be Toughened to Safeguard Drunk Women...court. Solicitor General Mike OBrien said the law must be changed to make it easier to jail rapists...alcohol involved. Fewer than six per cent of rape allegations end in successful convictions...
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RAPE LAW SHAKE-UP; Call for Change to Spell out Definition of Consent

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), December 19, 2007

Subjects:

Rape--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

RAPE LAW SHAKE-UP; Call for Change...called for a new definition of rape to be made law. The Scottish Law Commission...Their wider definition of rape is one of more than 60 recommendations...advisory body who review Scots law. They define consent as "free...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: rape law

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Rape , in Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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RAPE , in law in law, the crime of sexual intercourse...male is the victim. Issues surrounding rape and the law have been fiercely debated for years...testimony of the victim. In international law, rape was designated (2000) a war crime...
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Criminal Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...than death or imprisonment in the state prison is prescribed by law. The term "degree of crime" refers to distinctions in the culpability...immoral or wrong in themselves, or naturally evil, such as murder, rape, arson, burglary, larceny, and the like; the latter class embraces...
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Megan's Law

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of these laws was passed in New Jersey a year after the 1994 rape and murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka by a convicted child...family, lived across the street from them. The federal Megans law dates from 1996, and most states have passed some version of...
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Lynching

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...seemed to them capital, such as rape, horse stealing, and cattle rustling...tangible threat to the basis of the law. Between 1882, when reliable...accused of rape or attempted rape. Most blacks were lynched for...involved a degree of planning and law-enforcement cooperation. Racially...
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Assault

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...intent to kill, to do great bodily harm, to rape) as aggravated assaults and felonies, though simple assault remains, as at common law , a misdemeanor. Either malevolence or recklessness...jurisdictions. See W. L. Prosser, Handbook of the Law of Torts (3d ed. 1964...

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