(Do semicolons end sentences, or is this whole next bit one huge sentence?!)
As one lawyer informed members of the Kansas State Bar Association on 31 January 1901, it was "into the worl by vicious, drunken, dissolute parents... that he knows of God only by the picturesque forms of criminal blasphemy; that from his earliest remembrance he is kicked and cuffed and cursed; not for what he has done but because he is in the way and must be fed; that the very air he breathes is poisoned with the miasma of vice and crime."
In other words, the violence of inner cities spawned further violence. It was no wonder that the (male) child raised in poverty thought little of forcing an unwilling woman to have sex.
Rape - A history from 1860 to the present - Joanna Bourke
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As one lawyer informed members of the Kansas State Bar Association on 31 January 1901, it was "into the worl by vicious, drunken, dissolute parents... that he knows of God only by the picturesque forms of criminal blasphemy; that from his earliest remembrance he is kicked and cuffed and cursed; not for what he has done but because he is in the way and must be fed; that the very air he breathes is poisoned with the miasma of vice and crime."
In other words, the violence of inner cities spawned further violence. It was no wonder that the (male) child raised in poverty thought little of forcing an unwilling woman to have sex.
Rape - A history from 1860 to the present
- Joanna Bourke