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- 1From:South African Journal of Psychiatry (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPersons with mental retardation face multiple emotional, cognitive and social challenges. Mental health professionals increasingly agree that individuals with mental disabilities are more vulnerable to sexual abuse and...
- 2From:Pediatric Nursing (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the article, "Child Rape in South Africa," by Eileen Meier, in the September/October 2002 issue, on page 533, the first sentence under the subhead "AIDS Role" should read as follows: "Africa is home to 70% of the...
- 3From:Sexually Transmitted Infections (Vol. 79, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedFollow up rates for victims of sexual assault have traditionally been low, ranging from 10% (1) to 31%. (2) Rates improved if a follow up appointment was arranged at a genitourinary medicine clinic (GUM) clinic--50% of...
- 4From:Hospitals & Health Networks (Vol. 70, Issue 11)A new emergency team at Long Beach Community Hospital Medical Center (Long Beach, CA) is aiming to make it easier for health care practitioners to assemble evidence needed to convict rapists. The Sexual Assault response...
- 5From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 91, Issue 3)behind my back the backyard a black wedding train made of catshit weeds and mud in its folds boys circle a girl facedown in the dandelions the ants bear witness to her fisted silence and the zipper's long scream birds...
- 6From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 92, Issue 2)I Not dead, per se. More like Monet's garden trampled by glass eyes that tower impossibly high like bed knobs like scepters that impale parades of pink & screams of red & I can't tell one color from the other let alone...
- 7From:Crazyhorse (Issue 95) Peer-ReviewedSomeone will cut off the braid tossed down from the tower Someone will sabotage the love, don't put your trust in love. Someone will steal the body Will promise glamor, will sweep innocence away, and repress the truth....
- 8From:New England Review (Vol. 42, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWhen my debut book, a story collection, was nearing its publication date, my publicist--a woman I'd met once--sent me a list of questions. My answers to these questions would be included in the press kit submitted to...
- 9From:The Quill (Vol. 90, Issue 8)Thursday evening, Aug. 1, news editors across the country faced the same question: Name the girls or don't name the girls? The girls were two teenagers from Lancaster, Calif. They had been abducted earlier that day....
- 10From:Sexuality & Culture (Vol. 4, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis study examined the link between ethnicity, early sexual victimization experiences and college sexual assault in a sample of 383 undergraduate women. One third of the sample (32.9%) had experienced some form of...
- 11From:Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (Vol. 23, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
LOST CHASTITY TO LOST HONOR: THE HEURISTIC SHIFT IN RAPE DISCOURSE BY THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan has shown a propensity to engage in behavioral analysis to assess whether a purported rape victim fit the bill of the prototypical profile of a female rape victim as defined by societal... - 12From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 95, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed"[A] withdrawal of consent effectively nullifies any earlier consent and subjects the male to forcible rape charges if he persists in what has become nonconsensual intercourse." (1) "John Z. wasn't guilty of rape; he...
- 13From:Sister Namibia (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAdvocate Suzette Schultz, who worked at the Office of the Prosecutor-General until recently, has said: "The current criminal justice system in Namibia leads to a second victimisation of the sexually abused woman or...
- 14From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 86, Issue 3)No cruelty is like the cruelty one turns against oneself after being raped one feels covered in slime and shit said the old woman grimly This place used to be a park now it is a parking lot ha ha for which I am in the...
- 15From:Clinical Psychiatry News (Vol. 31, Issue 5)NEW YORK -- Children and adolescents who are sexually abused by priests are extremely likely to suffer from depression and substance abuse later in life. Many have been suicidal, and most experience ongoing problems in...
- 16From:War, Literature & The Arts (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI couldn't run with the others. --Fifteen-year-old Congolese war victim AMY MARENGO'S poems have appeared in Amethyst Arsenic, Pressed Wafer, The Cancer Poetry Project 2 anthology, among others. She has received the...
- 17From:The Kenyon Review (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe autumn Bess and Maureen returned to the local high school, the Penwood rapist was released from prison. His crimes had been committed thirty-five years before, and now he was just Mr. Philbrick, an old man on...
- 18From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 87, Issue 2)It is still dark when my cell phone begins to buzz. When I flip it open, my mother's voice comes through a connection often interrupted by the apartment building's iron girders. We make some awkward small talk and then...
- 19From:Albany Law Review (Vol. 74, Issue 3)With homicide your victim isn't going to be interviewed; their trauma is over. In most property crimes sure there is trauma, your car was stolen. But nothing can compare to sexual assault. We don't get enough training...
- 20From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCOMFORT WOMEN AS ARTISTS This essay addresses the largely unrecognized art of a former comfort woman, Duk-kyung Kang (1929-1997), with a focus on the potential of her art to challenge colonialism. (1) Two main...