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An unpublished analysis of F.B.I. crime data from 1970 to 1998 by Anup Malani, a law professor at the University of Chicago, found that the presence of the felony murder rule had a relatively small effect on criminal behavior, reducing the number of deaths during burglaries and car thefts slightly, not affecting deaths during rapes and, perversely, increasing the number of deaths during robberies.
Professor Phillips wrote about percentages and not particular cases, but his data suggest that black defendants were overrepresented in cases involving shootings during robberies, while white defendants were more likely to have committed murders during rapes and kidnappings and to have beaten, stabbed or choked their victims.
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The problem here is not just whether Akin thinks conception during rape is possible, but what he thinks rape is.
TWO Republicans running for Congressional seats last year offered opinions on "legitimate rape" or God-approved conceptions during rape, tainting their party with misogyny.
Are women really expected to identify their third-born as conceived during rape to avoid losing their tax credits: something most, if not all, would find wholly anathema?
Until the 1990's, Ms. Groneman writes, nymphomania was admitted into court during rape trials as evidence, the theory being that the female victim "wanted" sex.
The idea of dual systems appeared, possibly, to be the product of an unscientific impulse, a wish to make comforting sense of the unsettling evidence of women's arousal during rape and during depictions of sexual assault in the lab.
Akin's opponent, Claire McCaskill, a close ally of Obama's, said that Akin had not addressed several issues raised by his original comments, including his comment that women's bodies closed down during rape.
(Again, who'd have thought?) Garvey, funny and quick, kept everything whizzing along, including the appalling caller who started bibbling on about orgasm during rape… I'm never very sure about Radio 4 callers.
Humanitarian agencies at the London summit have documented the long-term physical and psychological effects of sexual violence in conflict, including the rejection of victims by their communities and the birth of children conceived during rape.
The idea that during rape, "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down" to prevent pregnancy, as Mr. Akin said, has surfaced periodically among anti-abortion advocates over the past two decades, usually involving the term "forcible rape" to refer to what Mr. Akin called "legitimate".
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