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Title: State Contexts and the Criminalization of Marital Rape Across the United States
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Spousal exemptions from rape prosecution persist in many US states criminal codes thereby compromising womens rights to bodily self-control and personhood. Power resources theorywhich emphasizes that given limited resources, groups act strategically to achieve goalsand gender stratification perspectives guided an event history analysis of the likelihood of marital rape criminalization in US states between 1978 and 2007. Findings suggest criminalization is influenced by the expected marginal benefit of law reform, womens relative socioeconomic resources, and racial heterogeneity. This research highlights the importance of considering how existing laws, group resources, and intersecting social cleavages influence the expansion of womens rights.
Url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X14001811
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Authors: Jackson, Aubrey L.
Periodical (Full): Social Science Research
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Volume: 51
Pages: 290-306
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Crime and Deviance, Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity
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