Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster Author Interviews, Early America, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

“Party Games” and “Pulling Train”: Understanding the Brett Kavanaugh Gang Rape Allegation

By Desiree Abu-Odeh 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

The history of responses to campus gang rape can help us understand recent allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska

By Brian Trump 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.

‘No One Helped’: Marcia Gallo on the murder of Kitty Genovese

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

As “inner cities” are being deployed as symbols of unchecked violent crime and social disintegration, the history Gallo traces is vital.

Child Sexual Abuse? A View from England in the Later Middle Ages

By Alan Kissane Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Sexual Violence

Bringing sex offenders to justice was as challenging in the Middle Ages as it is today.

The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.