An excerpt from this article: http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2014/05/05/due-process-and-sexual-assault-wendy-kaminer “Not Alone,” the White House entitled its task force report on campus sexual assaults. “Believe the Victim,” the report might as well have been called. It reflects a presumption of guilt in sexual assault…
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SB 967: CA Activists Seek to Redefine Consensual Sex as Rape
California activists seek to redefine quiet, consensual sex as rape through Senate Bill 967 By Hans Bader March 9, 2014 How does classifying most consensual sex as rape help rape victims? As a lawyer who has handled rape and sexual…
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Skewed White House Crusade on Sexual Assault
An excerpt from THIS article by Cathy Young: Last year, a University of North Carolina student who remained anonymous for safety reasons spoke to the campus newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, about feeling victimized by the school’s response to a…
When Men Are Raped
For some kinds of sexual victimization, men and women have roughly equal experiences Photo by Thomas Northcut/Thinkstock By Hanna Rosin – an excerpt from this article on Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/04/male_rape_in_america_a_new_study_reveals_that_men_are_sexually_assaulted.html Last year the National Crime Victimization Survey turned up a remarkable…
Constitution be dammed!
The White House recently announced detailed guidance for colleges on how to deal with sexual assaults. This won praise from advocates who are hell-bent on making their own rues with regard to justice in criminal matters, but renewed concerns from…
Blindsided: The exoneration of Brian Banks
Has Brian Banks’ dream of an NFL career been delayed or even destroyed by a false charge of rape and 5 years in prison? James Brown reports. A little more than a decade ago, Brian Banks was a star linebacker…
