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Each year, as many as 200,000 individuals are victims of various types of sexual abuse perpetrated in American prisons, jails, juvenile detention facilities, and lockups. As many as 80,000 of them suffer violent or repeated rape. Those who are outside the

Until quite recently the doctrine of act of state had long occupied a quiet backwater of English jurisprudence. Some cases of the last few years, however, have indicated that this doctrine may assume considerable importance in the future. In this respect the English experience is similar to that of the United States, where act of state cases were relatively rare and received little attention for many years before Sabbatino. This coincidence should cause little surprise for, as the cases in both nations make clear, there are common underlying causes. Act of state doctrine developed in an era when governments confined themselves to a narrow range of activities. Nowadays, however, the doctrine is being strained to cope with the activities of states whose governments own and develop natural resources, and engage in international trade, while maintaining an approach to property and contractual rights vastly different from that of the United Kingdom and the United States.