Sexual Violence in History: A Bibliography

[Info] Gericke, Carsten, et al. »Vergebung und Aussöhnung nach sexuellen Gewaltverbrechen in bewaffneten Konflikten. Zur Funktion und Bedeutung internationaler Strafprozesse.« Nach Krieg, Gewalt und Repression. Vom schwierigen Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. Edited by Susanne Buckley-Zistel et al. Baden-Baden 2011: 91-111.

[Info] Hodži?, Irma. Adjudication of Gender Based Crimes against Women in International Criminal Courts and Tribunals. Master Thesis, Lunds Universitet, 2012.

[Info] Marochkin, Sergey Y., et al. »Rape and Sexual Violence as Torture and Genocide in the Decisions of International Tribunals: Transjudicial Networks and the Development of International Criminal Law.« Human Rights Review (2014).

[Info] Mischowski, Gabriela. »„Justitias Mühlen mahlen langsam“. Die Internationale Strafverfolgung geschlechtsbezogener sexualisierter Kriegsgewalt seit Nürnberg.« 60 Jahre nach Nürnberg: Der Kampf gegen die Straflosigkeit vor neuen Herausforderungen. Nuremberg 2006.

[Info] Mischowski, Gabriela. »Geschichte, Probleme und Zwickmühlen der internationalen Strafverfolgung sexualisierter Kriegsgewalt.« Zwangsprostitution und Krieg im 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhundert. Fürstenberg/Havel 2007.

[Info] Morris, Kara. "When elephants fight, it is the gras that is crushed": A critical evaluation of the treatment of rape victim-witnesses by the International Criminal Court. M.A. Thesis, University of Ottawa, 2013.

[Info] Mühlhäuser, Regina. »Vergewaltigung und sexuelle Versklavung in der Internationalen Strafgerichtsbarkeit.« Militär und Geschlecht im Wandel. Hamburg 2003.

[Info] Nelaeva, Galina. Prosecution of Rape and Sexual Assaults as International Crimes: Explaining Variation. Ph.D. Thesis, Central European University, 2007.

[Info] Núñez del Prado, Fabiana. »Definiendo la violación sexual en el derecho internacional: la contribución de los Tribunales Penales Internacionales ad hoc.« Agenda Internacional 19 (2012): 21-44.

[Info] Utsumi, Aiko. »How the Violence against Women were Dealt with in War Crime Trials.« Common Grounds: Violence against Women in War and Armed Conflict Situations. Edited by Indai L. Sajor. Quezon City 1998: 187-197.

[Info] Wullweber, Helga. »Vergewaltigung als Waffe und das Kriegsvölkerrecht.« Kritische Justiz 26 (1993): 179-193.

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[Site] Beninese Trials

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Street Hawking or Street Walking? Petites Vendeuses and Sexual Assault in French West Africa.« 129^th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association. New York 2015.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Irresponsible Boys, Promiscuous Girls: Maturity, Gender, and Rape Myths in the Criminal Tribunals of Colonial Dahomey, 1924-1940.« Revue d'histoire de l'enfance "irrégulière" No. 20 (2018): 67-84.

[Info] Reuther, Jessica. »Street Hawking or Street Walking in Dahomey?: Debates about Girls’ Sexual Assaults in Colonial Tribunals, 1924–41.« The Journal of African History (November 1, 2022): 1-16.

[Site] Kenyan Trials

[Info] Shadle, Brett L. »Rape in the Courts of Gusiiland, Kenya, 1940s-1960s.« African Studies Review 51 (2008): 27-50.

[Site] Zimbabwean Trials

[Info] Benson, Koni, et al. »Ukubhinya: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-1956.« Zambezia 30 (2003): 108-133.

[Info] Benson, Koni, et al. »Ukubhinya: Gender and Sexual Violence in Bulawayo, Colonial Zimbabwe, 1946-1956.« Journal of Southern African Studies 31 (2005): 587-610.

[Site] A m e r i c a n T r i a l s

[Site] Argentine Trials

Courts: Juicio a las Juntas

[Site] Brazilian Trials

[Info] Bernardo, Katiana A. "Raptou a menor seduzindo de amor": Sensibilidades e práticas amorosas no sertão paraibano (1926-1956). Dissertação de Mestrado, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2019.

[Info] Vasconcelos, Tania M.P. »"As Filhas da Mãe": Representações do Feminino em Processos Judiciais por Crime de Sedução e Estupro em Jacobina, Bahia (1940-1960).« Diálogo No. 25 (2014): 91-105.

[Site] Canadian Trials

[Info] Bavelas, Janet, et al. »Is it Sex or Assault? Erotic Versus Violent Language in Sexual Assault Trial Judgments.« Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 10 (2001): 29-40.

[Info] Boyer, Laura K. Bounded Justice: Gender, Space and the Law in Early Twentieth Century Vancouver. M.A. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1993.

[Info] Walker, Barrington. Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958. Toronto 2010.

[Site] Jamaican Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Egbert Hugh Evans; Real Victims: Irma Duncan

[Site] Mexican Trials

[Info] Lara, Sandra E. "Crimes against the Order of the Family, Public Morality, and Decency": Sexual Violence and Jurisprudence in Coahuila, Mexico, 1871-1931. Ph.D. Thesis, University of New Mexico, 2016.

[Site] U.S. Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Errol Flynn, John Rideout; Real Victims: Greta Rideout

[Info] Donovan, Brian. »Gender Inequality and Criminal Seduction: Prosecuting Sexual Coercion in the Early-20th Century.« Law & Social Inquiry 30 (2005): 61-88.

[Info] Donovan, Brian, et al. »Narratives of Sexual Consent and Sexual Coercion: Forced Prostitution Trials in Progressive-Era New York City.« Law & Social Inquiry 36 (2011): 597-619.

[Info] Donovan, Brian. Respectability on Trial: Sex Crimes in New York City, 1900-1918. Albany 2016.

[Info] Flood, Dawn R. Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts. Champaign 2012.

[Info] Haag, Pamela. »The Power of a Madam: The Eroticization of Sexual Violence and the Cultural Logic of Rape in 1930s America.« Ninth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women. Poughkeepsie 1993.

[Info] Kestler, Stefan. »US-Army und bayerische Bevölkerung im Konflikt: Ein Bamberger Kriminalfall und die große Politik während des Kalten Krieges.« Jahrbuch für fränkische Landesforschung 64 (2004): 237-257.

[Info] Levi, Avraham, et al. »The Role of Eyewitness Testimony in Exonerations: An Archival Study.« Open Law Journal 5 (2013).

[Info] Niedermeier, Silvan. »»I didn't rape that lady«: ›Rasse‹, Vergewaltigung und Zeugenschaft in den US-amerikanischen Südstaaten, 1930–1945.« WerkstattGeschichte No. 59 (2012): 55-78.

[Info] Rayburn, Corey. »To Catch a Sex Thief: The Burden of Performance in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials.« Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 15 (2006): 436-483.

[Site] A s i a n T r i a l s

[Site] Chinese Trials

Courts: Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal

[Info] Hao, Xiaoyang. »What Is Criminal and What Is Not: Prosecuting Wartime Japanese Sex Crimes in the People's Republic of China.« The China Quarterly (February 11, 2020).

[Info] Toshiya, Ik?. »Japanese War Crimes and War Crimes Trials in China.« Genocide and Mass Violence in Asia: An Introductory Reader. Edited by Frank Jacob. Berlin 2019: 141-159.

[Site] Indian Trials

[Info] Arya, Lakshmi. Rape Laws and Trials in Colonial Times (British India and the Princely State of Mysore, 1860-1947). Ph.D. Thesis, Jawaharlal Nehru University, 2007.

[Site] Japanese Trials

[Info] Burns, Catherine. Sexual Violence and the Law in Japan. London 2005.

[Site] Philippine Trials

[Info] Form, Wolfgang. »Colonization and Postcolonial Justice: US and Philippine War Crimes Trials in Manila After the Second World War.« War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil. Edited by Kerstin von Lingen. Cham 2016: 143-166.

[Info] Lawson, Konrad M. Universal Crime, Particular Punishment: Trying the Atrocities of the Japanese Occupation as Treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953. Fiesole 2013.

[Info] Lawson, Konrad M. »Universal Crime, Particular Punishment: Trying the Atrocities of the Japanese Occupation as Treason in the Philippines, 1947-1953.« Comparativ 23 (2013): 57-77.

[Site] E u r o p e a n T r i a l s

[Site] Austrian Trials

[Info] Greif, Elisabeth. Verkehrte Leidenschaft: Gleichgeschlechtliche Unzucht im Kontext von Strafrecht und Medizin. Aus- und Verhandlungsprozesse vor dem Landesgericht Linz 1918-1938. Vienna 2019.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »Adoleszente Mädchen und die strafrechtlichen Bestimmungen zum Schutzalter (1950-1980).« 4^es Journées suisses d'histoire. Lausanne 2016.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »Die Grenzen der Kindheit und die Grenzen der "Schutzwürdigkeit": Sexuelle Kindesmisshandlung vor österreichischen Gerichten (1950-1970).« Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften 28 (2017): 133-156.

[Info] Matter, Sonja. »“She doesn’t look like a child”: Girls and Age of Consent Regulations in Austria (1950-1970).« Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 10 (2017): 104-122.

[Site] Cyprian Trials

[Info] Charalambous, Kyriaki. »The Judicial Performativity of Rape Myths: A Discourse Analysis of Rape Court Decisions.« Gender, Law and Institutions. Edited by Mary Koutselini et al. Nicosia 2015: 135-146.

[Site] Dutch Trials

[Info] Bergers, Lara. »A culture of testimony: The importance of 'speaking witnesses' in Dutch sexual crimes investigations and trials, 1930-1960.« Forensic cultures in modern Europe. Edited by Willemijn Ruberg et al. Manchester 2023: 49-70.

[Info] Ruiter, Lisanne E.R. de. ‘[Her sister] is not much more than a prostitute. Who dartes to believe the complainant?’: Rape cases, experts and witnesses of respectability (1920-1933). Master Thesis, Utrecht University, 2015.

[Site] English Trials

[Info] Adler, Zsuzsanna. Rape on Trial. London 1987.

[Info] Levi, Avraham, et al. »The Role of Eyewitness Testimony in Exonerations: An Archival Study.« Open Law Journal 5 (2013).

[Site] German Trials

Cases: Real Offenders: Karl Hermann Bodner, Erich L., Samuel Lubelski, Kurt-Lüder Freiherr von Lützow, Carl Mainone, Franz Xaver Walter, Gustav Wyneken; Real Victims: Alice E.

[Info] Beck, Birgit. »Rape: The Military Trials of Sexual Crimes Committed by Soldiers in the Wehrmacht, 1939-1944.« Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Edited by Karen Hagemann et al. Oxford 2002: 255-273.

[Info] Beck, Birgit. »Vergewaltigungen: Sexualdelikte von Soldaten vor Militärgerichten der deutschen Wehrmacht, 1939 - 1944.« Heimat-Front: Militär und Geschlechterverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Weltkriege. Edited by Karen Hagemann et al. Frankfurt/Main 2002: 258-274.

[Info] Beck, Birgit. Wehrmacht und sexuelle Gewalt: Sexualverbrechen vor deutschen Militärgerichten 1939-1945. Paderborn 2004.

[Info] Beck, Birgit. »Sexual Violence and Its Prosecution by Courts Martial of the Wehrmacht.« A World at Total War: Global Conflict and the Politics of Destruction, 1937-1945. Edited by Roger Chickering et al. Cambridge 2005: 317-331.

[Info] Beck-Heppner, Birgit. »Bagatelle oder Verbrechen? Die Wehrmachtsjustiz und sexuelle Gewalt im Zweiten Weltkrieg.« Europäische Sommer-Universität Ravensbrück. Fürstenberg/Havel 2007.

[Info] Hockerts, Hans G. Die Sittlichkeitsprozesse gegen katholische Ordensangehörige und Priester 1936/37: Eine Studie zur nationalsozialistischen Herrschaftstechnik und zum Kirchenkampf. Mainz 1971.

[Info] Huber, Christian T. Die Rechtsprechung der deutschen Feldkriegsgerichte bei Straftaten von Wehrmachtssoldaten gegen Angehörige der Zivilbevölkerung in den besetzten Gebieten. Marburg 2007.

[Info] Huber, Christian T. »Der Schutz feindstaatangehöriger Zivilisten durch deutsche Militärgerichte 1939 - 1945.« Rechtskultur 1 (2012): 30-58.

[Info] Lieske, Dagmar. »Pädophilie und sexueller Kindesmissbrauch im Nationalsozialismus: Zur Forschung im Aktenbestand des Landgerichts Berlin 1933–1945.« Sexuelle Gewalt in Kindheit und Jugend: Theoretische, empirische und konzeptionelle Erkenntnisse und Herausforderungen erziehungswissenschaftlicher Forschung. Edited by Sabine Andresen et al. Weinheim 2018: 18-27.

[Info] Psonka, Martin. Strafverfahren gegen Minderjährige im Dritten Reich am Beispiel des Sondergerichts Dortmund. Dissertation, Technische Universität Dortmund, 2019.

[Info] Wolffram, Heather. »‘Children’s Lies’: The Weimar Press as Psychological Expert in Child Sex Abuse Trials.« Crime and the Construction of Forensic Objectivity from 1850. Edited by Alison Adam. Cham 2020: 257-278.

[Site] Polish Trials

[Info] Ko?mi?ska-Frejlak, Ewa. »"I'm Going to the Oven Because I Wouldn't Give Myself to Him": The Role of Gender in the Polish Jewish Civic Court.« Jewish Honor Courts: Revenge, Retribution, and Reconciliation in Europe and Israel after the Holocaust. Edited by Laura Jockusch et al. Detroit 2015: 247-278.

[Site] Scottish Trials

[Info] Heren, Louise. 'An ugly epoch': Male sexual violence in interwar Scotland, 1918-1930. Ph.D. Thesis, St Andrews University, 2020.

[Site] Swedish Trials

[Info] Andersson, Ulrika, et al. »Contesting Contemporary Case Law: Narratives of Rape in Cases from the Supreme Court of Sweden 1988-2013.« 11^th European Social Scinece History Conference. Valencia 2016.

[Info] Edgren, Monika. »Tala tillbaka, tala som ”other” i domstolsnarrativ om våldtäkt: Några nedslag under de senaste decennierna.« Tidskrift för genusvetenskap 39 (2018): 116-135.

[Site] Swiss Trials

[Info] Cottier, Maurice. »Sexuelle Gewalt in Bern um 1900: Praxis und Rechtsprechung.« 4^es Journées suisses d'histoire. Lausanne 2016.

[Info] Cottier, Maurice. Fatale Gewalt: Ehre, Subjekt und Kriminalität am Übergang zur Moderne. Das Beispiel Bern 1868-1941. Konstanz 2017.

[Site] O c e a n i a n T r i a l s

[Site] Australian Trials

[Info] Bavin-Mizzi, Jill. »Understandings of Justice: Australian Rape and Carnal Knowledge Cases, 1876-1924.« Sex, Power and Justice: Historical Perspectives on Law in Australia. Edited by Diane Kirkby. Melbourne 1996: 19-32.

[Info] Cockburn, Helen M. The Impact of Introducing an Affirmative Model of Consent and Changes to the Defence of Mistake in Tasmanian Rape Trials. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Tasmania, 2012.

[Info] Featherstone, Lisa, et al. Sex Crimes in the Fifties. Carlton 2016.

[Info] Foote, Wendy L. Child Sexual Abuse Allegations in the Family Court. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Sydney, 2006.

[Info] Kaladelfos, Amanda. »Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials in 1950s Australia.« 32^nd Annual Conference of the Australian Historical Association. Wollongong 2013.

[Info] Kaladelfos, Andy, et al. »Race and Ethnicity in Sex Crimes Trials from 1950s Australia.« Legacies of Violence: Rendering the Unspeakable Past in Modern Australia. Edited by Robert Mason. New York 2017: 217-232.

[Info] Kennedy, Jessica, et al. »How protected is she? "Fairness" and the rape victim witness in Australia.« Women's Studies International Forum 35 (2012): 334-342.

[Site] New Zealand Trials

[Info] Zydervelt, Sarah, et al. »Lawyers' Strategies for Cross-Examining Rape Complainants: Have We Moved Beyong the 1950s?« British Journal of Criminology 57 (2017): 551-569.