@article{oai:sakuranoseibo.repo.nii.ac.jp:00000174,
 author = {元井, 貴子 and モトイ, タカコ and Motoi, Takako},
 issue = {44},
 journal = {桜の聖母短期大学紀要, Bulletin of Sakura no Seibo Junior College},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In June 2017, Japan’s Penal Code was amended for the first time in about 110 years in order to increase the severity of punishments for sexual crimes and make other improvements. Outdated provisions were revised, and there were very high hopes that the law would finally be attuned to the realities of contemporary society. However, these hopes ended up being betrayed as defendants were found not guilty in four recent trials for cases of rape. Called “an act that kills the soul,” rape is a serious crime in which the woman’s right of sexual decision and other human rights are grossly violated. Why have not-guilty verdicts continued to be handed down for such a serious crime? Various factors came into play in the trials, including the influence deriving from the legal amendments, difficulty of proving guilt, and outlooks colored by “myths about rape” dating from before the Second World War. In response, this paper first analyzes the sequence of events from the original law to the aforementioned legal amendments, and the substance of those amendments. It then examines the four not-guilty verdicts and probes agendas for the future.},
 pages = {65--79},
 title = {女性に対する性犯罪に関する考察},
 year = {2020}
}