| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 347 pages) |
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Background to rape reform -- Legal change sweeps the nation -- Failures and successes -- Avenues for and attitudes about victims -- The legal landscape -- Affirmative consent reform models -- Consent and voluntariness, agreement/nonconsent and involuntariness, nonagreement -- Presumptive nonagreement -- Mens Rea -- Applying recklessness and negligence -- Defenses -- Sexual assault under duress and fraud -- Reforming rape reforms : outline of the model array -- Discussion of the model array -- Advantages of a paradigm shift -- Recommendations complementing the model rape law -- Moving forward : social institutions, structures, and processes |
| Summary |
The first comprehensive book on rape since Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will and Susan Estrich's Real Rape, this volume probes every aspect of rape law and the discrepancies between ideal law (on the books) and real law (in action). Susan Caringella canvasses the success and failure of reform in the United States, as well as Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, and assesses alternative perspectives on rape reform, making use of theoretical models, court cases and statistical data. She uniquely delineates a creative model for change while addressing the discretion that undermine |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-329) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Rape -- United States
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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Rape
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Verkrachting.
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United States
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Verenigde Staten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231508759 |
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0231508751 |
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