Authors:
- Andrew P. Davis, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, North Carolina State University - ORCID, ResearchGate

- Morgan Johnstonbaugh: Author's Personal Website

Abstract: »While sociologists have focused on the national adoption of public-sphere women’s rights such as the right to vote in elections or participate fully in economic matters, less work has examined the diffusion of private-sphere women’s rights, rights of women in the home. We address this gap by examining the cross-national adoption of laws that criminalize marital rape. Building on prior research that finds that women’s rights organizations and women’s rights focused treaties, we explore the cross-national determinants of the criminalization of marital rape. Using an event history analysis covering 131 countries from 1979 to 2013, we find support for the global institutionalist framework that contends that socialization into the global system and direct advocacy efforts of global organizations contribute to faster rates of criminalization of marital rape. Further, we suggest that these global institutionalist processes become amplified when they are focused by events that set the agenda for international organizations. Implications for world-society scholarship on the global adoption of women’s rights are further discussed.« (Source: Law & Society Review)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 126)
	Private-sphere women’s rights (p. 128)
	Historical background: criminalization of marital rape (p. 129)
	Explanations for the diffusion of private-sphere women’s rights (p. 130)
		Global norms, international organizations and women’s rights organizations (p. 130)
		Human rights treaties and INGO enforcement (p. 132)
	Research design (p. 132)
		Dependent variable (p. 134)
		Independent variables (p. 135)
		Controls (p. 137)
	Results (p. 139)
	Discussion and conclusions (p. 139)
	Notes (p. 144)
	References (p. 144)

Wikipedia: Sex and the law: Rape / Marital rape