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ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care?   |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007 |
Letters Exporting Drug Prices... Assault Behind Bars... An Epidemic of Meddling... The Folly of Southern Hospitality... etc. |
Reason
January 2004
Cathy Young |
Kobe's Rights: Rape, justice, and double standards The case of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. |
Reason
February 2002
Cathy Young |
Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws... |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons... |
ifeminists
April 20, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
False Rape Claim Hurts Real Victims Instead of publicizing sexual violence against women, this case has spotlighted the problem of false accusations against men. |
ifeminists
August 5, 2003
Carey Roberts |
Promoting False Allegations of Rape False allegations of rape are far more common than most people imagine. |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
ifeminists
April 14, 2009
Carey Roberts |
Abuse Excuse: How Liberalism Keeps Women in their Place Liberals have become the unapologetic predators of women, gleefully playing on their fears and psychological vulnerabilities, all in the name of curbing domestic violence. |
ifeminists
February 16, 2005
Wendy McElroy |
Spousal Rape Case Sparks Old Debate When indications of violence are absent, it is reasonable for the legal system to require a higher standard of evidence to convict a husband of rape. |
ifeminists
April 26, 2007
Carey Roberts |
VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
ifeminists
September 8, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Kobe Bryant: Alice-in-Wonderland Justice The dismissal of rape charges against the basketball superstar has triggered a lively debate how the decision will affect sexual assault cases in the future. |
ifeminists
June 28, 2006
Leving & Sacks |
California Spousal Rape Bill Will Harm Innocent Men False accusations of violence or abuse are endemic in family law cases. The California Senate and the Assembly Committee on Public Safety recently approved a misguided bill which will make the problem worse by easing the way for spurious spousal rape allegations to be used against fathers. |
ifeminists
January 26, 2005
Norma Jean Almodovar |
Who Will Rescue Us from Those Who Wish to Rescue Us Against Our Will? Radical feminists and religious conservatives insist that no distinction be made between consenting adult commercial sex and true sexual slavery. Does anyone believe that arresting a prostitute "for her own good" is of any value whatsoever? |
ifeminists
August 9, 2009
Tony Zizza |
What if Ben Roethlisberger is innocent? False allegations of sexual assault and rape are in no way - a game. |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
ifeminists
April 7, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Lies of Faux Victims Cast Doubt on Real Ones Will you be willing to believe the next woman (or man) who claims to be a victim? |
Reason
April 2004
Cathy Young |
Abuse Revisited A feminist challenges the conventional wisdom about domestic violence. Mills concludes that using the "big stick" of the law as our dominant (or only) response to domestic violence ill-serves both women and men. |
ifeminists
November 26, 2007
Darrin Albert |
The Hazards of Duke The Duke rape case reveals some specific hazards that may prove pragmatic for society to exercise some restraint and/or caution: The Crying Wolf Effect... Herjury... Avoidance of Preventative Measures... etc. |
ifeminists
July 29, 2003
Ed Ward |
Kobe's Number Called, Learns No Man Is Safe in Western Civilized Nations On July 1, 2003 Kobe Bryant learned about the current draconian laws that can be applied, at a minimum, any time a man does not have video and audio surveillance of a one on one encounter with a female. |
ifeminists
January 31, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
Continuing to Defame the 'Duke 3' as Rapists Every day it becomes clearer: the three Duke University students accused of kidnapping and sexual assault are innocent. Why does defamation of the accused continue? |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
Salon.com
January 23, 2001
Ashley Fantz |
The jail from hell If you ever go to Memphis, you better walk right. A chilling report on one of the worst places in America... |
ifeminists
August 19, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Law Needs New Category of Sexual Assault On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that when a woman rescinds consent during sex, the man becomes guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. Such laws trivialize the crime of rape and encourage false accusations that, in turn, threaten the credibility of actual rape victims. |
IDB America
February 2005
Milagros Belgrano Rawson |
A Hospital That Understands Women How a group of clinicians in Buenos Aires pioneered a program for treating victims of sexual crimes. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
| AskMen.com |
Infinite Jail Terms For Sex Crimes? The Supreme Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that permits sex offenders to be kept behind bars after they complete their prison terms. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
ifeminists
May 11, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
A Feminist Defense of Men's Rights Women are individuals and anything that weakens individual rights based on a shared humanity harms women as much as men. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Charles Taylor |
The ultimate violation Two writers -- a philosopher and a working-class Southern man -- describe the horror of violent rape and their long journeys back from darkness... |
ifeminists
January 14, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
When Is It Rape? On Jan. 6, the California Supreme Court ruled that if a woman rescinds consent during the sex act, the man is guilty of rape if he does not stop immediately. The prosecution of rape used to be skewed against women. Now it seems to be skewed against men. |
Reason
June 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Missing Pedophiles New research indicates that the idea that the Internet has fostered a "shocking increase in the sexual exploitation of children," as Newsweek put it in 2001, appears to be unfounded. |
ifeminists
February 25, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Statistics from the Ministry of Truth The DOJ's recently declared that domestic violence has been cut in half over ten years. Men's advocates reply that the figures do not include violence against male victims. But larger issues are involved, like the manipulation of information (and us) by the government. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Eric Lassiter |
"Scared Straight" for the business set MBA students take a mandatory trip to prison for a lesson on ethics from corporate criminals... |
ifeminists
November 1, 2007
Amy Alkon |
We Get Hate Mail While some may view a woman's violent behavior toward her philandering husband as justified, others do not. |
Reason
August 2002
Thomas Szasz |
Sins of the Fathers Is child molestation a sickness or a crime? |
ifeminists
January 12, 2008
WolfmanMac |
A Tale of Two Rapes More common in today's society is the the false cry of rape driven by emotional motivation. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Bruce Shapiro |
Prison politics Under Gov. George W. Bush, Texas has the largest -- and fastest growing -- incarcerated population in America. |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
ifeminists
April 8, 2009
Wendy McElroy |
False Rape Claims Hurt Women Rape usually carries a stiff sentence and extreme stigma. The highest level of evidence and credible testimony should be required before ruining a man's life in that manner. |
Salon.com
August 9, 2002
Margot Magowan |
The "shame" of rape Why does the media hide rape victims who fight back instead of honoring them as heroes? |
ifeminists
July 22, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
False Rape Charges Hurt Real Victims If the charge against Kobe Bryant is proven false, a backlash against women reporting violence may occur. The highest level of evidence and credible testimony should be required before ruining a man's life in that manner. |
ifeminists
July 18, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
Looking Through a Paradigm Darkly Ayn Rand is arguably one of America's most important women novelists, and her heroines are among the strongest and most independent female characters in American literature. Yet modern feminism tends to dismiss Rand's work contemptuously. |
American Family Physician
March 1, 2001
Sheela L. Lahoti |
Evaluating the Child for Sexual Abuse Because the examination findings of most child victims of sexual abuse are within normal limits or are nonspecific, the child's statements are extremely important... |
Reason
July 2002
Cathy Young |
License to Kill Men and women, crime and punishment. |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
ifeminists
June 9, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric. |
