Rape and the Legal Process / Edition 2

by Jennifer Temkin

Overview

For several decades public disquiet has been intermittently but vehemently expressed about the crime of rape and the way it is handled by the criminal justice system. But in the new millennium the legal process still fails to provide an adequate response to sexual violation and abuse.Rape and the Legal Process examines some of the difficulties which this crime presents and analyses in detail how the legal system could and should be addressing them.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198763550
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/13/2003
Series:	Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Professor Jennifer Temkin LLD
Professor of Law, University of Sussex 1992-
Member, Home Office Advisory Group on Video-recorded Evidence in Criminal Trials (The Pigot Committee) 1988-1989
Member National Children's Home Committee of Enquiry into Children and Young People who Abuse other Children 1990-1992
Patron, Standing Committee on Sexually Abused Children, 1993-6.
Member, Justice Working Party on Evidence in Rape Trials (1997).
Member, Home Office Sexual Offences Review, 1999-2000

Table of Contents

PrefaceAbbreviationsTable of CasesTable of Statutes1. Rape, Rape Victims and the Criminal Justice System2. Defining and Redefining Rape3. Alternative Approaches4. Evidence5. Assisting the Victims of Rape6. ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex