http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/outlander-american-crime-sexual-assault-violence-men/#1NzsIBU0rgq8 While male sexual assault stories have various points of focus, one of the story points seen on American Crime is how others perceive the male victim and how there’s a lack of understanding — which only increases the amount of shame the victim may be feeling. In a sceneContinue Reading

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/08/russian-ukrainian-women-sexual-abuse-stories-go-viral “We don’t need to make excuses. We’re not to blame, those who violate us are ALWAYS to blame. I am not afraid to speak out. And I do not feel guilty,” she wrote, using the hashtag #Iamnotscaredtospeak (‪#‎яНеБоюсьСказати‬ in Ukrainian; #‎яНеБоюсьСказать in Russian‬). Her post was shared hundreds ofContinue Reading

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/82145223/jane-bowron-you-cant-legislate-against-flirting–yet So when I read that the Nottinghamshire police force is the first in Britain to recognise misogyny as a hate crime and is recording incidents such as wolf whistles and street harassment without consent as examples of hate crimes, I felt sad for the fun to be had inContinue Reading

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/81671533/Sensing-Murder-A-cold-case-of-tricks-or-something-more NZ Skeptics chair Mark Honeychurch says the psychics from Sensing Murder have not been instrumental in any developments with the cases they investigated. But as the New Zealand Skeptics Society points out the details of all of New Zealand’s unsolved murders are only a mouse click away. Skeptics SocietyContinue Reading

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/child-sex-offender-sentenced-preventive-detention-after-grooming-boy-online While living at a monitored address, with random room searches and no unsupervised Internet access, Stevens accumulated several mobile devices and downloaded 5000 objectionable images. Prosecutor Evan McCaughan said the supervision conditions should have been sufficient to prevent Stevens reoffending, but it was questionable how strictly monitored those conditionsContinue Reading