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Summary: This important book offers new ways of thinking about the wrongs of rape and the responses of the criminal justice system. A unifying theme of this book, which melds critical and feminist legal analysis, is contestation. Contestation, the authors contend, is part of the DNA of rape law. Examining the principal reforms of rape law - relating to consent, intimate partner rape, legal responsibility (both individual and institutional), trial and sentencing processes - the authors build to their conclusion that contestation is a battle between realities, perceptions and attitudes. |
