The ultimate loss: Rape and suicide in Qing China, 1744 – 1903 By examining 1841 rape cases in late Qing China, this paper studies the significance of suicide among rape victims. More than 40 percent of all rape victims committed suicide; the figure was much higher among those victims of ...
Stalking was first treated as a criminal offense by the state of California after the murder of a young actress who was shot to death by a man who had repeatedly stalked her before her death. Her murder, and within a month and a half, the murder of four battered women, demonstrated the...
One hundred and ten days after a minor girl was brutally raped and killed in Kerala’s Aluva, a special court here on Tuesday sentenced a migrant worker to death in the case that had sent shock waves across the state as cries for justice echoed. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said ...
Untold numbers of these women (whom the Japanese called “public toilets”) took their own lives when they learned their destiny; others died from disease or murder. Those who survived suffered a lifetime of shame and isolation, sterility, or ruined health. Because most of the victims came ...
Put aside for a moment Politico’s newreportthat Justice Neil Gorsuch failed to disclose that he’d sold his valuable Colorado property to a prominent lawyer with multiple cases before the court only nine days after he was confirmed, or Bloomberg’snew revelationsthat Harlan Crow, Justice Clarenc...