@article{ref1,
title="Toward a New Law on Rape",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="1980",
author="Schwartz, Michael D. and Clear, Todd R.",
volume="26",
number="2",
pages="129-151",
abstract="Forcible rape has become a major issue in the past decade, not only for political reasons but also because of the unique practical roadblocks placed in the path of prosecution by criminal law. A number of approaches to removing these obstacles are discussed here, based largely on the idea, acceptable from both a feminist and a practical standpoint, that rape law be &quot;normalized&quot; as part of a general assault code, rather than remaining a separate sex crime statute. Such a change would not only be an important political statement by the criminal law, but would also automatically remove most of the problems discussed in the literature. A suggested basic statute takes into account problems ranging from psychological harm to rape shield laws to statutory rape, in addition to the usual complaints about rape law.<p />",
language="",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/001112878002600201",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001112878002600201"
}