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Sentencing The Why Of White Collar Crime, Todd Haugh
Gender And Emotion In Criminal Law, Katharine K. Baker
Gender And Emotion In Criminal Law, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
No abstract provided.
A Separate Crime Of Reckless Sex, Katharine K. Baker
A Separate Crime Of Reckless Sex, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
This article attempts to make progress on both the problems of sexually transmitted disease and acquaintance rape by proposing a new crime of reckless sexual conduct. A defendant would be guilty of reckless sexual conduct if, in a first sexual encounter with another particular person, the defendant had sexual intercourse without using a condom. Consent to unprotected intercourse would be an affirmative defense, to be established by the defendant with a preponderance of the evidence. As an empirical matter, first-encounter unprotected sex greatly increases the epidemiological force of sexually transmitted disease and a substantial proportion of acquaintance rape occurs in …
Dialectics And Domestic Abuse (Reviewing Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women And Feminist Lawmaking (2000)), Katharine K. Baker
Dialectics And Domestic Abuse (Reviewing Elizabeth M. Schneider, Battered Women And Feminist Lawmaking (2000)), Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
No abstract provided.
Biology For Feminists, Katharine K. Baker
Text, Context And The Problem With Rape, Katharine K. Baker
Text, Context And The Problem With Rape, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
No abstract provided.
A Wigmorian Defense Of Feminist Methods, Katharine K. Baker
A Wigmorian Defense Of Feminist Methods, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
No abstract provided.
Once A Rapist? Motivational Evidence And Relevancy In Rape Law, Katharine K. Baker
Once A Rapist? Motivational Evidence And Relevancy In Rape Law, Katharine K. Baker
Katharine K. Baker
Feminist scholars and activists have long sought to reform rape laws and evidence rules in order to increase the number of successful rape prosecutions in the United States. In partial response to these efforts, and in an effort to decrease crime, the 104th Congress amended the Federal Rules of Evidence by adding Rule 413, which makes prior acts of sexual assault by alleged rapists admissible in criminal sexual assault cases. The new Rule 413 was meant to level the legal playing field between rapists and their accusers. Professor Baker argues that the new Rule is misguided because it fails to …