This summer, high-profile sex crimes trials claimed the headlines. These are important prosecutions and the coverage is understandable. Yet as I read story after story, I was struck by the number — ...

Saying it is long overdue, Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday signed a measure that updates and expands the definition of the crime of rape. Hochul said the bill, known as the “Rape is Rape” act, modernizes ...

In the early days of American feminism, Susan Brownmiller (in Against Our Will) proposed that rape is a crime through which men everywhere control and terrorize women. Evolutionary psychologists have ...

Susan Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California Law Center as well as being a syndicated columnist. It’s a question I’ve been ...

A new law designed to increase protections for victims of sexual assault in New York by redefining rape in the state’s penal code is set to take effect in September. The Rape is Rape Act, which was ...