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From: jim@ism780.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Should rape trials be televised - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 00:01:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 00:01:52 1984
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ism780!jim    Apr 25 10:34:00 1984

Prison is certainly not a place to learn not to rape.

What I find disturbing about this is that people will make conclusions based
on this incident, but never question the claim that this was "a good kid gone
awry", with the implication that anyone who watches the trial, regardless
of their character, might run out and commit rape.  It seems clear to me
that this child was taught to rape by the attitudes and behavior of his
parents and others around him, and that, given that warpage, he saw the
televised trial, in its "neutral" presentation, as a positive societal
sanction.

-- Jim Balter (decvax!yale-co!ima!jim)