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Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers – here's how the US could reduce their risk

  • Written by Kathleen Sexsmith, Assistant Professor of Rural Sociology, Penn State
imageMexican migrant workers harvest parsley on a farm in Wellington, Colo.John Moore/Getty Images

Television crime shows often are set in cities, but in its third season, ABC’s “American Crime” took a different tack. It opened on a tomato farm in North Carolina, where it showed a young woman being brutally raped in a field by her...

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