- i absolutely think that white privilege informed the brock turner case, but in ways that are complicated. the sentencing guidelines recognize that he was a college student, that people saw with potential, with no record. and this stands in contrast to how this system would see a 19 year old black kid from a poor neighborhood who s a defendant. increasing sentencing, broadening the definitions of crimes prosecuting more people, we all have this imagination that it will get at the powerful, privileged criminal offenders. but criminal law doesn t equalize the world. criminal law does the opposite. criminal law exacerbates inequality. hi, my name is aya gruber. i am a professor at the university of colorado law school. and i really want to explore the role that the feminist movement has played
i want to just be 100% transparent and share that when i heard about rob turne sentencing i was outraged. because i knew that, you know, or at least a believed that ha he been a black man or a man o color and had the survivor bee a white women, the sentencin probably would have looked ver different. at the same time, as a survivo of childhood sexual abuse as well as rape and in college, i know that incarceration isn going to stop rape and it is not necessarily goin to make me safe so i, for me i was holding the bold end o recognizing that it didn t fee like a fair sentencing, even though i am not in favor o course role responses to sexua any form of harm but i also empathized with everybody who was enraged abou his sentencing