'Hidden Rise in Violent Crime' in U.K. Has More to Do With Data Manipulation Than 'Growth in Violence Against Women'
No, the data doesn't show some sort of secret sexual-violence crime wave nor a reversal of decades-long crime trends.
No, the data doesn't show some sort of secret sexual-violence crime wave nor a reversal of decades-long crime trends.
Little girl gets patdown for accidentally smuggling a juice box past airport security.
East Carolina University's new consent policy is quite broad.
State police show notable restraint, seeing the incident as an occasion for education rather than prosecution.
The criminalization of prostitution is at the root of the risk sex workers face.
Propaganda film wants to be immune from criticism.
Victims were poor women of color
Media is catching on to the junk science that forms the core narrative of the campus rape crisis.
Plenty of people enjoy rough sex and even "rape" porn without ever committing real-world sex crimes.
Members of the media were wrong to believe Jackie. They're wrong to believe The Hunting Ground, too.
How influential sexual assault expert David Lisak used a misleadingly edited video to sell his serial predator theory of campus rape.
As a proponent of gender-blind law, I understand why D.C. police must take the incident seriously. And yet...
Twenty other students were suspended for receiving the video on their cellphones.
Teenagers who swap nude photos of themselves should not be branded as sex offenders.
Someone think of the child (predators)
Nearly 1,000 officers were fired for sex crimes or sexual misconduct from 2009 through 2014, and a third of the incidents involved children.
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes another terrible campus due process bill.
Leftist political mag Mother Jones is serving as a mouthpiece for sex-trafficking propaganda from religious nonprofit Covenant House.
Nearly one in five Harvard rape reports determined to be unfounded.
But grant hungry activists and vice squads want you to think they are.
And the results will be just as disastrous, for "perpetrators" and "victims" alike.
Men can now be counted as victims and the crime turns not on force but consent.
Teen loses cell phone privileges, constitutional rights.
Rape kit testing is important but the initiative threatens to set up yet another front in federal bureaucracy.
Research from group dedicated to "eradicating prostitution" gets presented as unbiased portrayal of men who've paid for sex.
New study on campus sexual assault suffers same problems that plague so much research on this issue.
Is it possible for two teens to sexually exploit each other?
Judges say Lynn ordinance is pre-empted by state law but also note "grave societal and constitutional implications."
A step in the right direction?
Looking at pictures should not be treated like a violent crime.
His sentence could have been much longer under federal law (and much shorter under state law).
Another convoluted campus-rape case out of Virginia highlights the limits of letting school bureaucrats handle assault investigations.
A Reason event on prostitution, sex trafficking, and the law
Mary Koss comes out swinging against David Lisak's serial predator theory.
The columnist thinks you should go out of business if some of your customers are criminals.
Proposed changes to U.S. sex-crime laws seek to set new sexual norms by criminalizing ordinary behavior.
Defending the constitutionality of civil confinement, Mark Dayton exposes the fallacy at its core.
Miscellaneous "sexual contact" goes from Class B to Class A misdemeanor when it takes place on train or bus.
A guide via The Washington Post and campus activists everywhere.
"We do not imprison citizens because we fear that they might commit a crime in the future," he says.
The police "said that this is a common thing," stated the Facebook post gone viral. And yet...
Invasion of privacy charges could lead to juvenile lockup or state prison for Cape May teens.
The Detroit Free Press takes a skeptical look at a system that treats public urinators like predators.
Excessive PDA, excessive sentencing
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