Rape: Challenging Contemporary Thinking by Miranda Horvath,Jennifer Brown

By Miranda Horvath,Jennifer Brown

Rape is still the most debatable matters inside felony justice and gets excessive profile assurance across the world. regardless of the various alterations there were to the legislations, perform and process within the research of rape allegations, and help on hand for sufferers, sufferers are usually blamed for his or her victimization. just a very small variety of perpetrators ever face prosecution, not to mention conviction.


This booklet goals to take inventory of present pondering and learn approximately rape and how it really is dealt with in perform in the legal justice approach, and to problem the various commonly held yet faulty ideals approximately rape. It brings jointly best researchers within the box from psychology, sociology and legislations, contemplating new study and featuring new info from a powerful theoretical and contextual base.


The major concentration of the e-book is on grownup sufferers of rape, with chapters exploring such matters as rape and the media, using alcohol and medication in rape, police choice making on rape instances, conviction styles in rape trials, and interviewing sufferers of rape and sexual assault.

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