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“Rape Culture” and the Implications for Liberty on College Campuses
College campuses are placing a stronger emphasis on reducing sexual assault. Unfortunately, universities and colleges often adopt heavy-handed policies to punish alleged offenders based on abstractions...
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Impacts of Sexual Assault on Civil Society Go Beyond Statistics
Today’s article is a qualified mae culpa. One of the first comments on an earlier post on campus rape and sexual assault challenged the veracity of a datapoint used frequently by anti-sexual assault...
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Title IX Privacy Ban Thwarts Campus Sexual Assault Policies
College sexual assault gains a higher national profile, and colleges and universities are bringing their sexual assault and harassment policies in line with guidelines issued by U.S. Department of...
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The Stanford Sexual Assault Case and the Limits of the Incarceration State
Between 12% and 20% of women are sexually assaulted while in college; between 3% and 10% might be raped or experience attempted rape. Perhaps the most striking void left in the aftermath of the Brock...
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A Civil Society Agenda for Campus Sexual Assault
Unsafe On Any Campus? College Sexual Assault and What We Can Do About It As studies refine our understanding of college sexual assault, more and more observers recognize that sexual assault and rape...
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How Rage Fuels the Incarceration State
Brock Turner, the Stanford University student convicted of sexual assault last summer, left jail after serving three months of his six month sentence, setting off a firestorm of outrage and protest in...
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Rolling Stone Defamation Conviction Reveals Danger of Dogma When Addressing...
Former University of Virginia associate dean Nicole P. Eramo won her defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone magazine, and the implications are significant. Successful defamation suits are rare in the...
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Revenge Thriller Promising Young Woman Challenges Thinking About Sexual Assault
According to Wikipedia, the film Promising Young Woman (2020) “follows a woman who takes revenge against men who have wronged her.” This isn’t accurate. The movie is actually darker, and much better,...
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