Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom /

Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom / / Andrew E. Taslitz.

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Rape law reform has been a stunning failure. Defense lawyers persist in emphasizing victims' characters over defendants' behavior. Reform's goals of increasing rape report and conviction rates have generally not been achieved. In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Andrew Taslitz l...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Taslitz, Andrew E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [1999]
©1999
Year of Publication:1999
Language:English
Series:Critical America ; 6
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note to the Reader
  • Introduction
  • Part I Patriarchal Stories
  • 1 Cultural Rape Narratives
  • 2 Cultural Rape Narratives in the Courtroom
  • 3 A Fair Fight
  • Part II Lawyers’ Language in the Courtroom
  • 4 Gendered Language
  • 5 Lawyers’ Language and the Rape Trial
  • Part III Feminist Evidence Law
  • 6 Market Failure
  • 7 Group Voices
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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