WGS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Major Crimes Act, Public Law 280, Crow Dog
14 Feb 2018
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Origins of sexual assault legislation in us. Assault of women is property crime against white husband. Successful prosecutions hindered by burden of evidence on accuser (resisted to the utmost, women had to become violent) Believed that women could not conceive child unless they had pleasure in the sex, so if child was conceived, wasn"t rape. Exclusion of women of color due to intersections of gender and race. Men of color more likely to be punished for raping, men of color less likely to get justice. Amnesty international reports on the failure to protect indigenous women in the us, published 2007, inspiration for round house. Na/an women are 2. 5x more likely to be raped or sexually assaulted. 86% of reported cases report the perpetrators are non-native men. Indigenous women are more likely than other women to suffer additional violence at the hands of their attacker.
