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66 St. John's L. Rev. 979 (1992-1993)
Writing and Reading about Rape: A Primer

handle is hein.journals/stjohn66 and id is 989 raw text is: WRITING AND READING ABOUT RAPE: A PRIMER* LYNN HECHT SCHAFRAN** INTRODUCTION What do you know about rape? What kind of a juror would you be in a rape case? What kind of a judge? How well informed do you think the criminal justice system is about rape? What do you think is happening across the country right now in rape trials and in sentencing decisions about rapists? This Article is in three parts. Part I is a closed-book writing exercise for you, the reader. Part H is a commentary on your an- swers that provides the most current data about rape, rape victims, and rape offenders. Part III describes what our courts generally do and do not know about rape, and the many ways that rape trials can be made more humane for the complaining witness without undermining defendants' rights. * Copyright D 1992, Lynn Hecht Schafran. ** Lynn Hecht Schafran, Director, National Judicial Education Program to Promote Equality for Women and Men in the Courts, a project of the NOW Legal Defense and Edu- cation Fund in cooperation with the National Association of Women Judges. B.A., Smith College, 1962; M.A., Columbia University, 1965; J.D., Columbia University, 1974. This Article is adapted from a model judicial education curriculum about rape being developed by the author with project attorney Danielle Ben-Jehuda, who contributed to this Article, under a grant from the State Justice Institute. For more information about the curriculum, contact the author at 99 Hudson Street, Suite 1201, New York, N.Y.; (212) 925- 6635. The author acknowledges the generous assistance of Aileen Adams, Esq., Legal Counsel, Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center; Professor Barry Burkhart, Department of Psychol- ogy, Auburn University; Professor Veronica Reed Ryback, Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Director, Beth Israel Hospital Rape Crisis Intervention Center; and Dr. Anna Salter, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Maternal and Child Health, Dartmouth Medical School, who shared their expertise and reviewed earlier drafts of these materials.

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