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#109 - Should Courts Or Campuses Decide Sexual Assault Cases?

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Open to Debate

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4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

High-profile cases have recently put campus sexual assault in the spotlight. One question that has repeatedly come up: why are these cases being handled by campuses at all? Campus investigations may serve a real need, forcing schools to respond to violence and protecting the interests of victims in ways that the criminal justice system may fail. Can schools provide due process for defendants and adequate justice for victims? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So for generations, colleges and universities have known how to handle violations like student

0:39.0

plagiarism.

0:40.2

They hold a sort of court, a tribunal, and they hand out penalties if warranted suspension

0:46.1

or expulsion.

0:47.6

But what if the violation is something like sexual assault on campus?

0:52.6

In that case, should it again be the school who is deciding who did what and handing out

0:58.1

the punishment, which might be expulsion or suspension?

1:02.2

Or should the victims, is it preferable for the victims, advisable for the victims, to

1:06.9

be going to the police and reporting a crime and seeking prosecution of their assailants,

1:12.6

possibly for rape, especially, however, knowing that that route so often results in justice

1:20.0

denied?

1:21.0

Well, because of what's happening right now on college campuses across the United States,

1:24.4

this is a topical and lively debate.

1:27.1

So let's have it right here.

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