Legal Rape in The Bahamas
A Scoping Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15362/ijbs.v29i2.545Keywords:
Marital rape, Rape in marriage, Spousal rapeAbstract
The Bahamas is reported to have a high per capita number of rapes and this has led to concerns about rape in general and other issues concerning gender-based violence. The focus of this scoping review of the literature, while cognizant of these concerns, is more narrowly focused on the act of a husband forcing his wife to have sexual intercourse with him when she does not wish to do so.
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