Marital Rape in UK Law
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Marital Violence in Great Britain and its Relationship to Marital and Non-Marital Rape
The National Survey of Wives in Great Britain was carried out to estimate the prevalence of violence by husbands against wives and the prevalence of rape of wives inside and outside marriage. A quo...
- The Marital Exemption in Rape
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Reflections on R v R
... ... for raping his wife,? proceeds from the belief that the marital exemption for rape ought to be abolished because the principle of ... ...
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Law Commission Report: Rape within Marriage1
... ... of England and Wales published Working Paper 116, Rape Within Marriage, in which it provisionally concluded that the marital rape exemption should be abolished. Within the year, Lord Lane in R. v. R. 2 .had declared that the husband's immunity no ... ...
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Criminal Law and the Man Problem by Ngaire Naffine(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2019, 224 pp., £55.00)
... ... 42). Of course, this focus puts the history of the marital rape exemption – alongside the doctrine of coverture, the defence of ... ...
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Recent Book: Corrections — An Issues Approach
... ... andsexual), wife assault and the relatively new research area of marital rape. The bookis based upon papers presented at the National Conference ... ...
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Progress at a Price: The Construction of Non‐Stranger Rape in the Millberry Sentencing Guidelines
... ... She is, in the true sense, asking for it.’ 1 ‘[M]arital rape could sometimes reflect problems within the marital relationship, for which both parties might bear some responsibility.’ 2 Introduction The exercise of judicial discretion in the sentencing of ... ...
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Reviews : Marital Violence
... ... The men earn the money, swagger round the pubs, rape", pillage etc, Visigoths lurking on the landing. A curious visitor from another planet, flicking through this new collection of wo~nen\xE2" ... ...
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TOWARDS A MODERN LAW OF RAPE
... ... A woman's right to choose when to have intercourse will be strengthened if the marital rape exemption is abolished as proposed. It would be unfortunate therefore if the law were to regress on what is ... ...
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Recent Book: The Dark Side of Families — Current Family Violence Research
... ... sexual), wife assault and the relatively new research area of marital rape. The book is based upon papers presented at the National ... ...
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