
Malcom Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"
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The Stanford Rape Case: A Classic Example of Campus Sexual Abuse
I wanted to write about sexual abuse as a classic example of campus sexual abuse cases. Many of them don't follow the trajectory of violent rapes, stranger rapes. They're about people who meet at the party under relative benign circumstances have a conversation and then something goes wrong. I started to dive into the Stanford rape case. It's impossible to talk about how do we prevent this in the future with the fact that she was victimized. How do we prevent people from being so drunk that on the one hand they greatly increase their chances of being a criminal? On the other hand, they increase the chances of being an victim.
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