Journalist, editor, writer, and crime fiction authority Sarah Weinman, who currently writes the monthly crime and mystery column for the New York Times Book Review, discusses her third non-fiction book, Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime.

Show Notes

Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free.  Ecco: 2023.  https://bookshop.org/p/books/scoundrel-the-true-story-of-the-murderer-who-charmed-his-way-to-fame-and-freedom-sarah-weinman/23be54a2111a87a7?ean=9780062899774&next=t&next=t&affiliate=287

Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Benedict, Helen.  1993.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/virgin-or-vamp-9780195086652?cc=us&lang=en&#:~:text=In%20Virgin%20or%20Vamp%20Benedict,victims%20are%20labelled%20either%20as

The book on Cheryl Arujo, the victim of the New Bedford gang rape, by Karen Curtis, The Accuser: the True Story of the Big Dan’s Gang Rape Victim, by Newman Springs in 2019, is out of print.

Monroe, Rachel.  2019.  Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession.  New York, Scribner.  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Savage-Appetites/Rachel-Monroe/For-True-Crime-Fans/9781501188893

Finkelhour, David and Kersti Yllö, 1985.  License to Rape: Sexual Abuse of Wives.  Los Angelos: The Free Press.  https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/337/

See my interview with Jennifer Freyd on institutional betrayal and the show notes for her episode.  Smith, C.P. & Freyd, J.J. (2014).
 Institutional betrayal. American Psychologist, 69: 575-587.

Russell, Diana.  1982.  Rape in Marriage.  Bloomington, University of Indiana Press.  https://iupress.org/9780253205636/rape-in-marriage/

Kenney, Sally J. 2023. Review of They Don’t Want Her There: Sexual and Racial Harassment in the American University, by Carolyn Chalmers.  Law & Politics Book Review.  33(5): 55-68.  http://www.lpbr.net/2023/07/they-dont-want-her-there-fighting.html

X, Laura. 1999. “Accomplishing the Impossible: An Advocate’s Notes from the Successful Campaign to Make Marital and Date Rape a Crime in All 50 U.S. States and Other Countries.”  Violence Against Women5(9): 1064-1081.  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1077801299005009006

AEquitas is a nonprofit organization that tracks marital rape cases.  https://aequitasresource.org/search?q=marital+rape

Patricia Cornwell, https://www.patriciacornwell.com/

Kathy Reichs, https://kathyreichs.com/