Sahar Jalili

University of Washington, Law School, Graduate Student

Penn State University, Penn State Law, Graduate Student

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Sahar is 26-year-old female law student from Iran. She received her LL.B. from University of Tehran, her first LL.M. from Washington University in St. Louis and her SJD (Ph.D.) from Pennsylvania State University focusing on sexual assault and rape law system. She has worked on 30 countries’ legal systems and compared their rape lawsystems. She has experience in volunteering in women centers and legal clinics. Her research focuses on women rights, and she volunteering in Seattle’s Sexual Assault Division. She also speaks Farsi and understands legal Arabic texts. Her primary goal in getting a second LL.M. is to take the Washington bar and practice law as a public defender.

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The Evolution of Pattern of Criminalizing the Unknown Crime of Rape in Global Scale A Dissertation in Law

Rape is a crime globally condemned, yet it's one of the most controversial crimes at the time. Wh... more Rape is a crime globally condemned, yet it's one of the most controversial crimes at the time. What this research did was to gather the information of countries' rape laws in their penal codes from all over the world and create a pattern of how countries on a global scale criminalize rape and how far they have changed in the past century. The goal was to produce a rape criminalization map of the world to show which elements are playing the main factors and which factors are missing, how close countries define rape and how different their reactions are.
The method that was adopted was the principal components analysis. This system allowed the researcher to compare twenty-nine countries plus seven of the US states based on fifty-one elements of the crime of rape.
The outcome was the production of seven charts, fourteen figures, eight dendograms and seven maps to establish three facts: the closer countries are, the more similarly define rape. The more mutual colonial history they share, the closer their definition of rape is to each other and analyzing the evolution of rape law throughout the history showed countries' rape laws re getting closer to the elements of Human Rights regarding sex crimes and human dignity.

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The Evolution of Pattern of Criminalizing the Unknown Crime of Rape in Global Scale A Dissertation in Law

Rape is a crime globally condemned yet; it's one of the most controversial crimes at the time. Wh... more Rape is a crime globally condemned yet; it's one of the most controversial crimes at the time. What this research did was to gather the information of countries rape law in their penal code from all over the world and create a pattern of how countries on a global scale criminalize rape and how far they have changed in the past century. The goal was to produce a rape criminalization map of the world to show which elements are playing the main factors and which factors are missing, how close countries define rape and how different their reactions are. The method that was adopted was the principal components analysis. This system allowed the researcher to compare twenty-nine countries plus seven the US states based on fiftyone elements of the crime of rape. The outcome was the production of seven charts, fourteen figures, eight dendrograms and seven maps to establish three facts: the closer countries are, the similar they define rape. The more mutual colonial history they share, the closer their definition of rape is to each other and analyzing the evolution of rape law throughout the history showed countries' rape law are getting closer to the elements of Human Rights regarding sex crimes and human dignity. IV Acknowledgement This dissertation is dedicated to Her/ Him who experienced sexual violence, who have been harassed on the street, in her/his house, school, public and private places, during peace and war, in refugee camp, while crossing the countries border to find peace, To her/him who was not able to speak out because she/he had no voice. This work is dedicated to her/him, who cried over the night because her/his privacy has been invaded and no one knows, To the girls and boys across the world who feel speechless, who experienced her/his own death and is still alive and experiencing it over and over again. I want to tell them I got your back. I want to tell them there are many out here that have your back. Before anything, I want to thank my SJD supervisor, my mentor, Professor Kit Kinports, who stands next to me through every step of this dissertation, without her support I wasn't able to cross the finish line. I like to thank Pennsylvania State University for believing in me and giving me the opportunity and resources to fight the cause in the battle of injustice for sexual assault survivors. I would like to thank my supervisors and colleagues at Pattee Library, who support me and tolerate my exhaustion through this process of writing this dissertation, they were the ones that V gave me energy when I had non to move on. I would also like to thank my editor, Mrs. Rebecca Vollmer and everyone who help me through the process of writing this dissertation. More than anything, This dissertation is dedicated to her, to my soul mate, to my sister, Sara, my other half, the one that takes my hands and helped me walk, the one that grab a book and introduce me to reading, to whom wrote my homework when I was falling asleep while studying, to whom who sit next to me when I was crying, hold my hand over the Skype when I was desperate, the one that left her life in Iran with her husband, my best friend, Hooman, and flight all over the continent to come to the US to bring the home to me. This dissertation is about my mom and dad, Monir Maghsoudloo and Adel Jalili, the ones that lived with me through every sentence written in this paper, the ones whom I was nobody without them, the ones who stood next to me across the world and helped me take baby steps over the time, the ones who hold my hands when I fell, the one who were proud of me no matter what, the one who brought joy, support and laugh to my life. I would love to thank my friends, all across the world, in Iran and US, who tolerated me in every step, told me they believe in me, got my back and gave me a shoulder to cry whenever I needed one.

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