Sometimes there are other ways to fight for justice in this world,” she said eventually. If clothing was anything to do with rape, rape rates would sky-rocket in the summer when skirts, shorts, and bikinis come out, but they do not. Its law commission has recommended specialist sexual violence courts, where there are no juries, just expert judges and lawyers, well versed in the myths that surround rape. The argument is that there are “powerful cultural conceptions” that are “unique to sexual violence as a form of criminal offending”. Some of these can include moral beliefs about how a woman should behave, and misplaced ideas about how sexual violence occurs, or what the “correct” response should be.

Source: Irish Examiner March 30, 2018 23:03 UTC