Description:
We need a new law of rape -. One one which puts the focus on the defendant, rather than the victim. Many survivors of rape report that their experience of the criminal courts is that they are on trial. This book argues we need to redefine rape so the focus is on the defendant and his responsibility.
Review Quotes:
This book tackles head-on some of the key challenges in rape law, in a succinct and convincing way. It will challenge your assumptions, starting a debate on what we really can and must do to improve justice for victim-survivors. -- Clare McGlynn, Professor, Durham University, UK.
Herring and McCormack offer an important and timely contribution to debates on rape law reform. By shifting the focus from the victim's consent to the defendant's responsibility, the book offers a compelling reorientation of sexual offences law. It lays the groundwork for taking rape law beyond the move from force to consent, towards responsibility as its core conceptual and normative foundation. -- Dr Marthe Goudsmit Samaritter, Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law.
An interesting examination of the law of rape, and why it is failing victims. This work explores the interventions and changes necessary to achieve justice, with a focus on the definition of rape itself and a novel approach to the obligations and beliefs of those involved in sexual activity. -- Dr Amanda Clough-Ricci, Northumbria University.