RENDA: Unreasonable risk
By Emily Renda | March 6, 2014Women should not be conditioned to anticipate violence because of their activism or views
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Women should not be conditioned to anticipate violence because of their activism or views
As much as I want and believe that rape should be a single-sanction offense, it is legally untenable and impossible given the state of American justice today, which involves part of our very Constitution. To make rape a single-sanction offense involves either raising the standard of proof to a level that violates Title IX or sacrificing the viability of countless cases by mirroring the justice system, which only successfully prosecutes 4 percent of rapes every year (most of which, I will add, are stranger rapes with DNA evidence).
