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Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

Strict Scrutiny

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What Is the Legal Meaning of Passivity in the Criminal Law?

In most states the resistance requirement has now been abolished it remains in a in a few, but I do think that tracing that lineage and being able to see it in our recent history is really a helpful way of understanding why our culture continues to be safe fixated on the behavior of victims. It's hard to kind of escape the notion that this is so bound up in male sexual entitlement that we're sort of you know seeing that play itself out in all of these as you say legal definitions That really puts a whole lot of sexual violence in the lawful category even today.

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