Last week, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a decision that a woman from Kansas could be sent to jail if she refused to testify against the man she accused of sexual assault. The 24-year-old woman initially filed charges in August 2012 against a 63-year-old Nebraska man for sexually assaulting her when she was 7 years old. Last year,…
Posted: May 17th, 2012
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Sex and Politics
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A Long Walk Home,
gender,
Law,
police and law enforcement,
Race,
Race and Sexuality,
racial justice,
Rape,
reproductive justice,
sex and sexuality,
sexual assaults,
Sexual Health and Rights
“Using the first person accounts of five African American, drug-using, street-walking, cross-dressing gay hustlers, Pettiway, a professor of criminal justice at Indiana University, breaks free of some criminologists’ tendency to view the marginalized as monolithically deviant, negative or hopeless. …His goal is to present them ‘more nearly as they experience themselves’ and to suggest policies…