|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
The use of a rape victim’s sexual history as evidence attracted
intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched
Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system
widely perceived to be failing rape victims, the use of sexual
history evidence remains a flashpoint of contention around rape law
reform. This accessible book mounts an important interrogation into
the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials.
Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by
feminist theory, the authors explore the role and significance of
sexual history evidence in criminal justice responses to rape.
The use of a rape victim’s sexual history as evidence attracted
intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched
Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system
widely perceived to be failing rape victims, the use of sexual
history evidence remains a flashpoint of contention around rape law
reform. This accessible book mounts an important interrogation into
the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials.
Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by
feminist theory, the authors explore the role and significance of
sexual history evidence in criminal justice responses to rape.
This edited collection brings together leading and emerging
scholars in the important field of sexual violence scholarship. The
last 10 years have witnessed an international reckoning on sexual
violence, typified in the mainstream imagination by the #MeToo
movement, acknowledgement of the violence of university campus
life, and the overdue recognition of the enduring harms of child
sexual abuse. While the state has been forced to respond through
law and other political processes, at times revealing its agility
and at other times its archaic investment in the past, much of the
real work responding to sexual violence and abuse has taken place
within communities, and in the personal responses of the
individuals writing the scripts of their experiences. This volume
explores the nuances of these individual experiences and considers
how they are shaped and reflected by intersecting axes of power
including gender, race, class, age and able-bodied status. It
reflects on law and law reform in the area and suggests new modes
and frames through which to explain and understand sexual violence
and institutional responses to it. Debates within this contested
personal and political arena do not map onto longstanding binaries
of liberal and radical feminism, nor conservative and progressive
politics. This interdisciplinary volume traces that murky terrain
and features some of the leading international scholars writing on
sexual violence in English today. This book will appeal to scholars
and students across the broad disciplines of law and legal studies;
criminology; gender studies; political science and sociology.
|
|