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[link] Street harassers never say…
Photo via empoweredafrolatina. If I had a nickel… From feministing: Street harassment is an everyday reality for damn near all women. It doesn’t let up when you get older. You just get more creative...
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[link] Roe v Wade at 40: if the law was settled in 1973, the controversy is...
[Roe vs. Wade at 40. Posts: #1; #2; #3] #4 from commentisfree: Tuesday mark[ed] the 40th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the deeply polarizing US supreme court decision that created a constitutional right...
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[video] Inside Mississippi’s last abortion clinic as it faces closure
[Roe vs. Wade at 40. Posts: #1; #2; #3; #4; #5] Forty years ago the US Supreme Court gave women the constitutional right to an abortion. But in some places today it is harder to get an abortion than at...
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[image] 10 Pro-Gun Myths, Shot Down
Myth #2: Guns don’t kill people—people kill people. Fact-check: People with more guns tend to kill more people—with guns. The states with the highest gun ownership rates have a gun murder rate 114%...
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[link] Britain’s spending on ramming people in jail is nonsensical at a time...
From telegraph: Our prison system is failing. It is failing because of decisions taken by successive governments of both political hues. When we look for solutions today, however, the ideas are flowing...
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[link] Breaking the cycle: A young offender describes his attempts to go...
I’m analysing some of my research data – on young offenders – at the moment. The data contain a lot of similar stories. From the independent: I was carrying most of my worldly possessions in two black...
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[link] It’s not just the Met police that is failing women…
From liberalconspiracy: I don’t know how much national press coverage this story will get but the Birmingham Mail is reporting another sorry case of a Police officer falling down on the job: A “rogue”...
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[research] Violence against women in intimate relations: A contrast of five...
This is a good (methodologically and theoretically sound), and important, study. (The full text is available, if you would like it. Comment below etc.) Abstract: This paper explores the correlates of...
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[link] Rape suspects ‘should not be named’
Why are we going back to this again? According to McGowan (below) those accused of rape or other sexual offences should not be named until they have been convicted. We all know what this is about: it’s...
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[link] Early day motion 105 – anonymity for defendants in rape cases
By the way, here is why this motion was withdrawn when it was tabled in 2010. Early day motion 105 – ANONYMITY FOR DEFENDANTS IN RAPE CASES That this House believes that the Government’s proposal to...
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[research] Trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons
A University of Cambridge Study has found that trafficked women are extremely vulnerable in UK prisons. Females who have been trafficked into the UK to work as prostitutes, drug mules or domestic...
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[quote] South Africa’s macho society, where attacks on women are the norm
“ Black South African men are expected to prove their manliness by carrying knives and having lots of girlfriends,” said Rachel Jewkes of the South African Medical Research Council. “White Afrikaners...
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[link] To be the victim of rape shouldn’t have to be a life sentence
From the telegraph: Let me start with a trio of quotes from three famous feminists on the subject of rape. They are not easy quotes, and these women were all roundly attacked, mainly by other women,...
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[link] Human Trafficking and Exploitation is a Global Issue
In many ways, we would like to think that the days of indentured servants and slavery are a thing of the past. But human trafficking–the selling and buying of people for the purpose of sexual...
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[link] Arrested for Your Politics in America? It’s Already Happening
In the US, due process – one of the defining features of a democratic judicial process – continues to be badly bludgeoned: Obama fights tooth and nail to push through NDAA, which would allow...
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[research] Content analysis of rappers’ lyrics – what they’re really saying...
I’m no fan of hip-hop, it has to be said, but this is very interesting. Hip-hop music is frequently described as violent and anti-law enforcement, with the implication that its artists glorify...
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[link] The War on Sex Workers
On August 30, a 19-year-old woman in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was arrested after a prospective client called 911 on her. He claimed she raised her fee for services after their initial online contact. The...
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[link] Oscar Pistorius case: South Africa is a country at war with its women
It is much too risky to speculate about what exactly happened when model Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead in the home of Oscar Pistorius. But the South African sports legend has been charged with murder,...
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[round-up] Monday feminist round-up (25th February 2013)
- The nature vs. nurture debate terrifies me, frankly, because research findings which conclude on the side of “nature” are inevitably used to forward some sort of “criminality as pre-determined”...
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[video] Southwark Sapphire rape unit ‘failed victims’–“encouraged” them to...
Police officers at a specialist rape unit in south London “encouraged” victims to withdraw their allegations in order to improve detection rates, the police watchdog has said. Video here: BBC News....
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