Assault by the DOE (10.1007/s12129-015-9472-5)
Robert Carle, The King’s College
In April 2011 the Obama administration launched a campaign to expand the role of sexual misconduct tribunals on campus. Schools have been ordered to investigate and adjudicate student reports of sexual assault—whether or not alleged victims have medical exams or file incident reports—and warned not “to accord due process rights to the alleged perpetrator” that would “delay the Title IX protections” or risk losing federal funding and being reported to the Department of Justice. In the first entry of this issue’s special section, “Rape Culture on Campus?” Robert Carle details how today’s campus tribunal system “squanders university resources and brands as rapists students…innocent of criminal assault” and betrays actual victims of sexual assault.
The War on Due Process (10.1007/s12129-015-9475-2)
KC Johnson, Brooklyn College
KC Johnson continues
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