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Baron, Larry and Straus, Murray A. “Rape and Its Relationship to Social Disorganization, Pornography, and Sexual Inequality in the United States.” Paper presented at the International Congress on Rape, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 7–11, 1986.
Lynn, Barry W. “‘Civil Rights’ Ordinances and the Attorney General’s Commission: New Developments in Pornography Regulation.”Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 21 (1986).
Malamuth, Neil M. and Donnerstein, Edward, eds.Pornography and Sexual Aggression. Orlando: Academic Press, 1984.
Nobile, Philip and Nadler, Eric.United States of America vs. Sex: How the Meese Commission Lied about Pornography. New York: Minotaur Press, 1986.
Vance, Carole S. “The Meese Commission on the Road.”The Nation (August 2–9, 1986).
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He has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Family Violence Research Program at the University of New Hampshire and the Sociology of Social Control at Yale University. He testified as an expert witness at the Meese Commission hearings in Houston; and he is completing a book with Murray A. Straus on rape in the United States.
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Baron, L. Immoral, inviolate or inconclusive?. Society 24, 6–12 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695659
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695659