It is extremely difficult, if not impossible to legislate for emotions. This is a conundrum, known to sociologists as a ‘wicked problem’. In other words there is no scientifically probative ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer and the ‘solution’ may in fact give rise to a consequential raft of other societal and institutional problems, not yet apparent. […]
I ADMIT to the fact that the timing of this article has a tinge of dramatic irony about it, falling so contingent as it does to International Women’s Day and National Justice Week. The subject of such irony? The fact that, in the UK, a woman cannot be convicted of raping either a man or another […]
Recently, a female college professor of ethics, in a top American university, was released from prison, having served less than half of a 12 year sentence. She had been convicted of sexually assaulting a 30 year old learning-disabled man who ‘had the mental capacity of a toddler’, and was non-verbal. The professor, married, with 2 […]
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