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Identity Crises And Incarceration: Preventing Prison Rape By Channeling Expressions Of Masculinity, Daniel A. Nolan Iv
Identity Crises And Incarceration: Preventing Prison Rape By Channeling Expressions Of Masculinity, Daniel A. Nolan Iv
Daniel A Nolan IV
Prison rape is a well-known and widely publicized problem in the American prison system. Even with this high degree of visibility, the problem persists despite correctional officials’ best efforts. These efforts to combat prison rape have focused almost exclusively on preventing the physical act from occurring. While it might seem like a straightforward or obvious approach, this type of strategy does nothing to address why rape is so common among prison inmates. Solutions that merely prevent rape from occurring, without addressing the underlying cause, do nothing to change a cultural environment that rewards sexual assault.
This Article argues that the …
“Hands Off”: Sex, Feminism, Affirmative Consent, And The Law Of Foreplay, Dan Subotnik
“Hands Off”: Sex, Feminism, Affirmative Consent, And The Law Of Foreplay, Dan Subotnik
Dan Subotnik
No abstract provided.
Constitutional Concerns About Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Statute In New York State, Richard Klein
Constitutional Concerns About Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty Statute In New York State, Richard Klein
Richard Daniel Klein
No abstract provided.
Anonymous Reporting Of Sexual Assault Using Internet Technology, Janette A. Bertness
Anonymous Reporting Of Sexual Assault Using Internet Technology, Janette A. Bertness
Janette A Bertness
Abstract: This paper will discuss the current status of rape and sexual assault in the United States, problems associated with using scientific evidence to prosecute offenders, and suggest a method of anonymous reporting to boost prosecution and conviction of serial offenders.
Too Rough A Justice: The Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission And Civil Liability For Claims For Rape Under International Law, Ryan S. Lincoln
Too Rough A Justice: The Ethiopia-Eritrea Claims Commission And Civil Liability For Claims For Rape Under International Law, Ryan S. Lincoln
Ryan S. Lincoln
The developments in international law prohibiting rape during armed conflict have grown at a rapid pace in recent decades. Whereas rape had long been considered an inevitable by-product of armed conflict, evolution in international humanitarian law (IHL) has relegated this conception mostly to the past. The work of international criminal tribunals has been at the forefront of this change, developing the specific elements of the international crime of rape, and helping to change the perception of rape in international law. Violations of IHL, however, also give rise to civil liability. Despite the advances with respect to rape made in the …
Two Truths And A Lie: In Re John Z. And Other Stories At The Juncture Of Teen Sex & The Law, Michelle Oberman
Two Truths And A Lie: In Re John Z. And Other Stories At The Juncture Of Teen Sex & The Law, Michelle Oberman
Michelle Oberman
Laws governing adolescent sexuality are incoherent and chaotically enforced, and legal scholarship on the subject neither addresses nor remedies adolescents’ vulnerability in sexual encounters. To posit a meaningful relationship between the criminal law and adolescent sexual encounters, one must examine what we know about adolescent sexuality from both the academic literature and the adults who control the criminal justice response to such interactions. This article presents an in-depth study of In re John Z., a 2003 rape prosecution involving two seventeen-year-olds. Using this case, I explore the implications of the prosecution by interviewing a variety of experts and analyzing the …