Discuss the connection between laws against rape and laws against property
What will be an ideal response?
• Centuries-old traditions allowed a man who wanted a woman to simply rape her and bring her into her tribe.
• Later, the status of women as property was embodied in custom and law.
• Rape entered the law as a property crime of man against man; women were the property.
• As a crime of one group of enemies against another, rape has been a part of war in most societies throughout history.
• Rape within marriage was considered an oxymoron.
• Only in recent years has marital rape come to be recognized in some nations as a crime.
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