| 书目名称 | Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault | | 副标题 | Rethinking the Adver | | 编辑 | Anne Cossins | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents decades of research including the 2019 NSW Law Reform Commission report.First book of its kind to examine key reform issues associated with trial processes specifically.Appeals to academics, | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia. Drawing on decades of research, it investigates the reality of the policing and prosecution of sexual assault offences – often seen as one of the ‘hardest crimes to prosecute’ – across two similar jurisdictions. Despite the introduction of the many reform options detailed in the book, satisfactory outcomes for victims and the public are still difficult to obtain..Cossins takes a new approach by examining the nature and effects of adversarialism on vulnerable witnesses, jury decision-making and the structures of power within the trial process, to show how, and at what points, that process is weighted against complainants of sexual assault, in order to make evidence-based suggestions for reform. She argues that this justice gap is a result of a moralisticadversarial culture which fosters myths and misconceptions about rape and child sexual assault, thus requiring the prosecution to prove a complainant’s moral worthiness. She argues this culture can only be eliminated by a radical replacement of the adversarial | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | Sexual assualt; Trauma; Rape myths; Trial Process; Legislative reform; Sex offenders; criminal justice; soc | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32051-3 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-137-32050-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-1-137-32051-3 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 |
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