Front and Center: Sexual Violence in U.S. Military Law
- 1 March 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Politics & Society
- Vol. 37 (1), 101-129
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329208329753
Abstract
Military-on-military sexual violence—the type of sexual violence that most directly disrupts operations, harms personnel, and undermines recruiting—occurs with astonishing frequency. The U.S. military has responded with a campaign to prevent and punish military-on-military sex crimes. This campaign, however, has made little progress, partly because of U.S. military law, a special realm of criminal justice dominated by legal precedents involving sexual violence and racialized images. By promulgating images and narratives of sexual exploitation, violent sexuality, and female subordination, the military justice system has helped to sustain a legal culture that reifies the connection between sexual violence and authentic soldiering.Keywords
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