Criminalization Tensions: Empirical Desert, Changing Norms & Rape Reform

The Impact of Rape Law Reform on the Processing of Simple and Aggravated Rape Cases

Preventing gun violence by changing social norms.

Fromapublichealthperspective,somesocialnormsare beneficial (eg,washingyourhands),whileothersare less so (eg, shakinghands,whichmay spreadgerms). Social norms can encourage or discourage violence. For example, traditional norms that men have a right to controlwomenand that sexual violence is aprivateaffair increase the likelihoodof intimatepartnerviolence. Social norms that encourage violence ca...

Infertility, cancer, and changing gender norms.

INTRODUCTION Recent improvements in cancer detection, treatment, and technology have increased survivorship rates. These same life-saving treatments, however, can lead to infertility or sterility. Oncofertility, an emerging field at the intersection of cancer and oncology, centers on providing cancer patients with the potential to preserve their biological fertility. METHODS We examine the hi...

External Pressures and International Norms in Latin American Pension Reform

What accounts for the striking of wave of pension privatization that swept across Latin America during the 1990s? Many authors argue that the international financial institutions (IFIs) successfully promoted this drastic change, forcing or persuading weak developing countries to enact their uniform blueprints. But the present analysis, based on field research in Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, El ...

Are all abortions equal? Should there be exceptions to the criminalization of abortion for rape and incest?

Politics, public discourse, and legislation restricting abortion has settled on a moderate orthodoxy: restrict abortion, but leave exceptions for pregnancies that result from rape and incest. I challenge that consensus and suggest it may be much harder to defend than those who support the compromise think. From both Pro-Life and Pro-Choice perspectives, there are good reasons to treat all abort...