Rape and the Legal Process [Paperback]

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.Rapeand the Legal Processexamines some of the difficulties which this crime presents and analyses in detail how the legal system could and should be addressing them.

Preface
Abbreviations
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
1. Rape, Rape Victims and the Criminal Justice System
2. Defining and Redefining Rape
3. Alternative Approaches
4. Evidence
5. Assisting the Victims of Rape
6. Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Index

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