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Even when perpetrators in cold-case rapes are convicted, some face lighter sentences than contemporary rapists.
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Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Gentileschi had been raped, and her rapist was brought to trial and convicted but never punished or imprisoned.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Married to my rapist: The Indian women saying no
In July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government overhauled the country’s 164-year-old penal code with new criminal laws, but the exemption for marital rape stayed on the books.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
An unusual picture of the banality of abusive behaviour challenging ideas of rapists as rare and slightly monstrous exceptions.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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Gina Barton, USA TODAY, 26 Sep. 2024
Gentileschi had been raped, and her rapist was brought to trial and convicted but never punished or imprisoned.
—Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
Married to my rapist: The Indian women saying no
In July, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government overhauled the country’s 164-year-old penal code with new criminal laws, but the exemption for marital rape stayed on the books.
—Helen Regan, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
An unusual picture of the banality of abusive behaviour challenging ideas of rapists as rare and slightly monstrous exceptions.
—Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Rapist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rapist. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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