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 […]
One perhaps inevitable, if not entirely anticipated, consequence of the government’s lock-down measures, in response to COVID-19, is that reports of domestic violence have significantly increased. What has been described as ‘shocking statistics’ reveal a ‘surge’ in domestic violence incidents that has severely stretched the resources of the police and other emergency services, as well […]
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