[Library ebook] Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom (Critical America)
• Andrew E. Taslitz •
| #82182 in Books | NYU Press | 1999-06-01 | 1999-06-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.57 x6.00l,.67 | File Name: 0814782302 | 232 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is a very good read for anyone interested in law|By Kathryn Michaels|This is a very good read for anyone interested in law, gender stereotypes and the ever-present misogyny that impacts all aspects of the legal system.|11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Intriguing argument|By Karen Franklin|Rape and the|||"In Rape and the Culture of the Courtroom, Taslitz (a former prosecutor) is concerned to show how and why police, prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys use their discretion to circumvent legal reforms in rape law." -Hypatia|
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 locates the cause of rape reform failure in the language lawyers use, and the cultural stories upon which they draw to dominate rape victims in the courtroom.
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