An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation “easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party acc...
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Feb 08, 2010
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“A California appellate attorney looks at crime and punishment under our sex laws… Place expands the notion of guilt, examining its other dimensions—factual, ethical, moral—and asks whether we’ve allowed dubious science, conflicting cultural messages and out-of-control political passions to distort our sex laws...Place detects something desperate in all this, and in richly allusive, frequently witty prose, she asks important questions about what it is exactly we want from our criminal laws. A so
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Apr 02, 2010
Lynn
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There wasn't too much I didn't know in this book given my profession, but it's probably really interesting for someone who is open-minded and hasn't really thought about who qualifies as a "sex-offender" or questioned what the media tells us we "know" about recidivism rates and sexual predators who are strangers stalking our children.
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