Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Cornell Law Review
Publication Date
2001
ISSN
0010-8847
Page Number
1386
Keywords
rape, biology, behavioral biology, evolution, evolutionary analysis in law
Disciplines
Criminal Law | Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence | Law
Abstract
This review essay discusses the book A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion, by Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer (MIT Press, 2000). The essay builds on work previously appearing in Owen D. Jones, Sex, Culture, and the Biology of Rape: Toward Explanation and Prevention, 87 Cal. L. Rev. 827 (1999) and Owen D. Jones, Law and the Biology of Rape: Reflections on Transitions, 11 Hastings Women's Law Journal 151 (2000).
Recommended Citation
Owen D. Jones,
Realities of Rape: Of Science and Politics, Causes and Meanings, 86 Cornell Law Review. 1386
(2001)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1059