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Category Archives: Acts of Violence
Janell Hobson on Rihanna’s New Video
Over at the Ms. Magazine blog, Janell Hobson writes about the reaction to Rihanna’s video for her new song, “Man Down.” Here is an excerpt from Professor Hobson’s commentary: While certain groups may be shocked at the image of yet … Continue reading
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Another Attack On Hotel Staff Member Results In Suspension Of Supervisor, Agreement To Provide “Panic Buttons”
The Hotel Pierre, site of another reported sexual attack on an employee, has suspended a housekeeping because that person apparently only entered the report into a logbook. A manager saw the report the next morning and called highers-up, who then … Continue reading
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“An estimated 100,000 to 300,000 American-born children are sold for sex each year. The escalating numbers have prompted national initiatives by the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies, and new or pending legislation in more than a dozen states, most recently Georgia, which enacted a toughened human trafficking law this month.”
That’s a sentence pulled from this NYT article.
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SlutWalks All Over the World
This article in the UK Guardian explains the recent history behind the SlutWalk, an in-the-streets form of women’s activism that also uses social networking sites to organize and mobilize: When a police officer from Toronto went on a routine visit … Continue reading
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Exception(al) Opinion: Supreme Court of Montana Opinion Might Mean Montana Has Broadest Abuse Exception to Court-Ordered Mediation
Mediation in child custody determinations is popular, partly due to the mediation principle of neutrality, which theoretically gives both parents an equal chance at a fair allocation of parenting time. However, not all divorce cases are appropriate for mediation. In severe cases of intimate partner violence there are … Continue reading
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Charges in the Tyler Clementi Case
From the Chronicle: A former freshman at Rutgers University at New Brunswick who allegedly used a hidden Web camera to broadcast his roommate’s sexual encounter with another man was indicted on Wednesday on 15 counts in a case that drew … Continue reading
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New Documentary on Women, War, Family and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Women Make Movies is distributing a new documentary film by Beth Davenport and Elizabeth Mandel. Here is the description of “Pushing the Elephant“: In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the violence that engulfed the … Continue reading
Rodriguez and Elchahal, “Violence Against Women Still a Problem”
Miraisy Rodriguez (far left) and Farrah Elchahal (left), two great students in Professor Caroline Bettinger Lopez’s Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami, published this op-ed in today’s Miami Herald: Eleven years ago, Jessica Lenahan’s three daughters were kidnapped and … Continue reading
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(Non)Consenting Adults: Illinois Opinion Finds Adultery Is Serious Provocation, Sexual Assault Is Not
I’m currently teaching 2nd degree murder in my Criminal Law class and was looking for a good Illinois case on the subject. In Illinois, a defendant who could otherwise be convicted of 1st degree murder can be convicted of 2nd … Continue reading
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There’s No Sex in Your Violence: Opinion Reveals Minnesota Only Allows Hostile Work Environment Claims Based On Sexual Harassment, Not Gender Discrimination
A female employee brings an action against a school district under the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), alleging hostile work environment based upon gender discrimination. The gravaman of her complaint is that her male supervisor made sexist statements about the … Continue reading
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If a Woman Fears for her Life, it’s not “Boyfriend Trouble”
Andrea Chang, a writer for the LA Times, reported here that some Target retail stores in urban centers employ social workers to provide advice upon request to store workers. It’s an innovative employee benefit which Target says helps combat “absenteeism … Continue reading
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Teenage Girl’s Fingers Hacked with a Knife for Complaining About Teasing and Threats
From India Today (here), this awful news of a girl whose fingers were were cut by her would-be molesters. A teenaged Dalit girl was publicly molested and her fingers chopped off in Lucknow on Tuesday. The class XII student was … Continue reading
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Manliness, Part IV: Blind Leading the Blind
Recently, there have been two events in the news that, while happening in two quite different parts of the United States, bear telling similarities. One concerns the vicious attacks by young and presumably heterosexual men against gay men in the … Continue reading
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Arundhati Roy, “Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds.”
The Hindu, a daily paper in India, reports here that a crowd of up to 100 people assembled outside the home of writer Arundhati Roy, shouted anti-Roy slogans and attempted to break into her home. The incident is reported to … Continue reading
Rape as the Ivy League’s Latest “Joke”
A lucky few of our readers may have missed the story about the Yale fraternity pledges who picketed the campus Women’s Center chanting, “‘No’ means ‘yes.’ ‘Yes’ means anal.” Let’s not think that awful taste and misogyny are specialties of … Continue reading
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Because Violent, Sexual Pathologies Attract More Readers than Stories about the Murder of Two Women
Today’s Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald profiles the convicted criminal David Russell Williams, former colonel in the Canadian military (here). The article focuses on Williams’s “sadistic sexual urges” and photographic evidence (reprinted with the article) showing Mr. Williams dressed in women’s … Continue reading
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Rape is Violence, not “Buyer’s Remorse”
Over at Politics Daily, correspondent Sandra Fish details the controversy surrounding Colorado GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck: [Buck], the Weld County [Colorado]district attorney, is facing criticism from a liberal group for not prosecuting an acquaintance-rape complaint five years ago, when he … Continue reading
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More Hazing Accusations Against Sigma Gamma Rho
This time, in California. Here’s what the NY Times reports: In the San Jose State case . . . a former student at the university, charged in a civil lawsuit, filed Aug. 31, that over a three-week period in 2008 … Continue reading
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Accomplices in Hatred, Allies in Hope
I attended high school from 1984-1987 in suburban New York. I confronted daily harassment between each period, each class. An innumerable group of male students would yell “faggot” and other insults so loud that I could not hold conversations. I … Continue reading
Manliness, Part II: What Is Courage?
As Bridget pointed out, in the news recently, we have seen a terrible episode involving young, presumably heterosexual, men who tortured gay men in the Bronx. It is an appalling example of hypermasculinity where violent cruelty is its own reward. … Continue reading
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“Survivors Speak: Essential Leadership in Combating Demand for Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sex”
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How to React to Violence and Intolerance?
Xavier Le Pichon writes in Ecce Homo of the 6th century B.C.E., an era that gave rise to Buddha, Lao Tzu, Confucius and the Second Isaiah: As humans increased their capacity of transformation of the world and consequently increased their power, … Continue reading
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Horrific Bias Crime in NY
From today’s New York Times: He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty … Continue reading
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Reflections on What to Make of Tyler Clementi’s Death
Like many people, I’ve taken hard the recent suicides of so many gay teens, including Tyler Clementi. I got choked up last Thursday afternoon in front of the University of Connecticut Law School faculty when I mentioned his death as … Continue reading
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Cell Phone Drive to Benefit Domestic Violence Victims
This year, Domestic Violence Awareness Month coincides with the ABA’s National pro bono week which occurs from October 24 through 30, 2010. The ABA’s Domestic Violence Commission is encouraging women’s bar and law student associations around the country to host … Continue reading
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Be an Affirming Teacher or Peer: No More Silence, No More Bullying, No More Discrimination
From a joint statement issued by GLSEN (Gay Lesbian and Straight Education Network), PLFAG (Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and The Trevor Project (crisis and suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth): Recently, there has been heightened media attention surrounding the … Continue reading
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The Emotional Darkness of Hate: Suicide at Rutgers
Last week Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge. The (Newark) Star-Leger reports here: Freshman Tyler Clementi was enrolled at Rutgers University for a little more than three weeks when he asked his roommate … Continue reading
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Robin Runge’s Upcoming Radio Appearance on “Domestic Violence and the Law: China vs. the U.S.A”
On Sunday, August 8, 2010, at 5:00 p.m. (Central), Feminist Law Prof Robin Runge (North Dakota) will appear on Prairie Public radio station’s “Why?” program talking about her work in China on violence against women. Here’s the station’s official description of the … Continue reading
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Checked Baggage with a Murderous Message?
Most of us have had the experience of wondering which one of the ubiquitous and indistinguishable black suitcase is ours at the baggage claim. However, this takes the need to make those bags easily identifiable to a new low. Novelty … Continue reading
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Northern District of California Permits Defendants to Interrogate Title IX Plaintiff About Whether She Consented to Teacher’s Sexual Behavior When She Was 15
A plaintiff claims that she was 15 years-old when she was subjected to sexual molestation by her then 38 year-old teacher at a charter school. Accordingly, she brings a Section 1983 action (1) against the school and its director/principal for failure to train and … Continue reading
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Frances Criminalizes “Psychologial Violence”
France has passed a criminal ban on psychological or verbal abuse of a spouse or live-in partner. The New York Times reported: The French Parliament gave final and unanimous approval on Tuesday to a law that makes “psychological violence” a … Continue reading
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Demonstrably Durable: Indiana Case Reveals Indiana Courts Still Recognize Demonstrably False Accusation Exception To Rape Shield Rule
"Under common law, evidence of prior false allegations of sexual misconduct is admissible if the allegation was demonstrably false and similar to that with which the defendant was charged, or if the complaining witness has admitted that the prior accusation … Continue reading
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Female genital cutting . . . in a U.S. hospital?
(Trigger warning) This post at Feministing — about a doctor who cuts young children with “abnormal” clitorises, and then tests their subsequent sensory perception with a vibrator (!) — is just incredibly disturbing.
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Where Will We Be? Another Hate Crime Murder Trial in New York
Two men now stand trial in Brooklyn for the 2008 deadly beating of José O. Sucuzhañay, an Ecuadorean immigrant. The victim’s brother, Romel Sucuzhañay, was attacked also, but he not seriously injured. The prosecution’s theory in the case? That the … Continue reading
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SCOTUS rules in U.S. v. Stevens that law banning “crush porn” is unconstitutional infringement on free speech.
From the NYT: The Supreme Court, with only one dissenting vote, on Tuesday struck down a federal ban on videos that show graphic violence against animals. The ruling cheered free speech advocates, but it raised concerns that more animals will … Continue reading
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Invasion of Privacy: Court of Appeals of Texas Finds Trial Court Properly Excluded Evidence of Alleged Victim’s Prior Nonconsensual Sexual Acts Under Rape Shield Rule
Texas Rule of Evidence 412(a) provides that In a prosecution for sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault, or attempt to commit sexual assault or aggravated sexual assault, reputation or opinion evidence of the past sexual behavior of an alleged victim … Continue reading
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Special Commission’s Recommendations to City of Cleveland on Responding to Sexual Assault Victims
In response to the shocking murders of several women in Cleveland, Ohio (see here), that city’s mayor appointed a Special Commission on Missing Persons and Sex Crime Investigations. That Committee has issued its final report here. The Cleveland Plain Dealer … Continue reading
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“Maryland’s roadblock to helping victims of abuse”
WaPo article by Eileen King: The Maryland House Judiciary Committee has a reputation for being not only a place where good bills go to die but also where witnesses can expect little sympathy for having suffered from violent or sexual … Continue reading
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Georgia judge obstructs effort by Hustler to pornify photo of murdered hiker; Georgia law preventing distribution of certain crime scene photos has also been proposed.
From CNN: Photos of the nude and decapitated body of a murdered hiker, sought by a writer on assignment for Hustler magazine, will not be released, a judge in Georgia ordered Wednesday. The decision came as state lawmakers considered legislation … Continue reading
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The Rape Sieve Rule?: According to Dissent, Opinion Abrogates Every Rape Shield Statute in the Sixth Circuit
Some 35 years ago, the Michigan state legislature determined that a criminal defendant accused of rape may not introduce evidence about the victim’s past sexual behavior, because the victim’s past willingness is not relevant to the question of present consent. … Continue reading
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Nobel Women’s Initiative – Video Stream: International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women of Burma
HERE! More information here. “The Tribunal is a women-directed and women-centered justice and advocacy initiative. Judges will hear testimony from several women of Burma who will share their personal stories of surviving human rights violations and crimes under miliatry rule … Continue reading
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Egerman on “Avoiding Confrontation”
Mark Egerman (Staff Counsel, National Abortion Federation) has posted to SSRN his working paper, “Avoiding Confrontation,” a a feminist critique of evidence law. Here is a portion of the abstract: This article takes seriously Justice Scalia’s facetious aside in Giles … Continue reading
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Women and Sexual Abuse in Prison
The March 11, 2010 edition of the New York Review of Books contains poweful essay by David Kaiser (Chairperson, Just Detention International) and Lovisa Sannow (Executive Director, Just Detention International). In “The Rape of American Prisoners,” Kaiser and Sannow … Continue reading
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Words Hurt: Garfield on Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress
Leslie Yalof Garfield (Pace) previously blogged here about France’s consideration of a criminal ban on psychological or verbal abuse of a spouse or live-in partner. See related news items here (BBC), here (Time Magazine) and here (NPR). Professor Garfield has … Continue reading
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Friedman and Norman on Maryland DV Protective Orders
Joshua L. Friedman (Attorney Advisor, U.S. Social Security Administration) and Gary C. Norman (Staff Attorney, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) have published their article, Protecting the Family Pet: The New Face of Maryland Domestic Violence Protective Orders, 40 U. … Continue reading
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Hazing Accusations at Rutgers New Brunswick
Six members of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority at Rutgers-New Brunswick have been arrested and charged with aggravated hazing. According to one local news source (here), the hazing consisted of paddling and restricting pledges’ food intake. According to the New York … Continue reading
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A story about having the same conversation about pornography over and over with men.
By Sam Berg, excerpted from here: Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism Winter 2010, Issue #45 “Hi: I’m a writer at The Oregonian in Portland, working on a story about the sex culture … Continue reading
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“For those who buy and sell children for sex and cheap labor, Haiti is ripe with opportunity.”
That is the second sentence in this short essay in The Atlantic. Here is an excerpt: In Haiti … human trafficking is a problem at the best of times. Even without the pandemonium unleashed by a 7.0 earthquake, an estimated … Continue reading
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Killing an Abortion Doctor Might Be Voluntary Manslaughter, Not Murder
That is, according to the Kansas judge presiding over the trial of Dr. George Tiller’s murder. Apparently, murdering someone in cold-blood for performing a lawful medical procedure for women who seek it might be a form of “deadly force … Continue reading
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Advocate for battered women named first “CNN Hero” of 2010
Upon being named the first “CNN Hero” of 2010, Wynona Ward, the founder of Have Justice Will Travel, said:”I think it’s wonderful to get the exposure for our program, but it’s even more important that people realize domestic violence is … Continue reading
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