Item Detail
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30328
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1
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1
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English
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Rape Law in the Mid-Twentieth Century : Sexual Violence in Salt Lake City
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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Summer 2017
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85
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3
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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224-237
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This article examines rape cases in Utah during World War II and the years preceding it to explore the difficulties women faced when reporting rape, the issue of consent, and why crime rates of rape are so unreliable. While the number of reported rapes definitely rose, it is extremely difficult - impossible really - to discern the number of actual rapes.