Alvin Campbell, an alleged serial rapist who’s the brother of the state’s attorney general, has lost his pretrial detention case in front of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court where he argued rape does not meet the dangerousness standard.

Campbell, who’s accused of raping nine women in Boston and a long list of other charges, has been locked up in the Suffolk County Nashua Street Jail before his trial scheduled for later this year.

After Campbell was ordered held without bail under the state’s dangerousness law, he appealed several times to be released on reasonable cash bail — arguing that rape should not be an offense for pretrial detention under the dangerousness statute.

Judges have continued to deny his petitions for release, and the state’s Supreme Judicial Court has now agreed with those past rulings to keep Campbell locked up before trial.

The dangerousness statute can lead to the pretrial detention of a defendant charged with a felony offense involving “the use, attempted use or threatened use of physical force against the person of another.”

“The question in this case is whether rape… qualifies as a predicate offense under the force clause of the pretrial detention statute,” reads the Supreme Judicial Court ruling. “Because rape is a crime of physical violence requiring unwanted forceful penetration of another person, we hold that it does qualify.

“We reject the notion of a nonviolent forcible rape,” the SJC adds in its ruling.

Campbell’s trial for the nine alleged rapes and a total of 32 charges is scheduled for December. The charges include multiple counts each of rape, aggravated rape, assault and battery, indecent assault, photographing an unsuspecting nude person, and a single account of assault to rape.

Suffolk DA prosecutors accuse Campbell of posing as a rideshare driver to lure in drunk women before violently attacking them in his car. After the women passed out, he proceeded to allegedly rape them, often taking photographs or recording videos of the assaults, according to prosecutors.

After being locked up before trial, Campbell during the last two years has pushed for judges to reconsider his pretrial detention.

“Regarding the (dangerousness statute) pretrial detention orders, the motion judge concluded that because rape has ‘as an element the use of force,’ it qualifies as a predicate offense under the force clause,” the SJC wrote about a past ruling. “The judge also determined that the defendant posed ‘an extremely high danger’ to the community.”

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But then Campbell filed an emergency petition for relief, asking the court vacate the pretrial detention orders and release him on reasonable cash bail.

“The defendant argued that rape could not serve as a predicate for detention under (the dangerousness statute) and that, even if it could, ‘the evidence in this case (did) not require detention,’ ” the ruling reads.

However, Campbell was denied that emergency petition as a single justice reasoned that rape qualifies as a predicate offense for pretrial detention under the force clause because an element of rape includes the use or threatened use of force.

“To decide otherwise and determine that rape is not an offense with physical force at its heart would be to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the violation,” the SJC wrote in its ruling. “Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of the single justice.”

Campbell is the elder brother of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell.