Rape Offence in UK Law
- The offence of rape in Victoria
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The Rape of a Label Why it Would Be Wrong to Follow Canada in Having a Single Offence of Unlawful Sexual Assault
With the enactment of the Sexual Offences Act 2003, the UK has just had its biggest shake-up of the existing law on sexual offences. Rape has been widened to include oral sex, a new offence of assa...
- De-genderisation of the Offence of Rape under the Violence against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015: An Assessment of the Practical Challenges and the Slippery-Slope Effects
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The Role of Gender in Judicial Decision-Making: Similar Fact Evidence, the Rose West Trial and beyond
This article uses the trial of Rose West as a window through which to examine and understand some of the processes underlying decisions to allow or exclude similar fact evidence in rape and other s...... ... underlying decisions to allow or exclude similar fact evidence in rape and other sexual offence trials. Drawing on research which has explored ... ...
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Rape in Victoria as a Crime of Absolute Liability: A Departure from Both Precedent and Progressivism
In recent decades, a disturbing trend has emerged in Victoria and elsewhere that has witnessed the emergence of statutory rules that accord preferential treatment to prosecutors and complainants in...... ... in the form of Victorian crime legisla- tion, but the means by which the statutory crime of rape in Victoria has been transformed into an offence which, though technically one of mens rea , can effectively be prosecuted as an offence of absolute liability. The piece concludes with a discussion ... ...
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Group Sex Offending by Juveniles
We study sex offences carried out by groups of juveniles, focusing on offender characteristics and the interaction patterns within offender groups and between offend...... ... In one-third of the groups, a leader orchestrated the offence during the perpetration. The group either was instrumental or functioned ... In most offence situations at least one vaginal rape took place. In many cases the victim was threatened, even after completion ... ...
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[Cali] Fornication by False Pretences—No Penalty for Partner Personation under California's Penal Code
This article considers the recent decision of the Second District Court of Appeal of California in People v Julio Morales. The California Court of Appeal controversially quashed the conviction for ...... ... California Court of Appeal controversially quashed the conviction for rape of the appellant who had had sexual intercourse with the victim seemingly ... of (2) above and that the California Penal Code recognised the offence of rape as being possible in personation cases only where the person being ... ...
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A Further Assessment of “Circle Theory” for Geographic Psychological Profiling
Abstract The Circle theory of environmental range (Canter & Larkin, 1993) has demonstrated utility for the analysis of the spatial distribution of serial rape and arson offences, bu...... ... utility for the analysis of the spatial distribution of serial rape and arson offences, but the theory’ s applicability to the crime of ... occurred in four Australian rural towns.The marauder pattern of offence that had been found to accommodate most cases of serial rape and arson was ... ...
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The Doctrine of Incapability and the Emperor's New Clothes: A Protected Defendant or Non-Existent Offences?
... ... that a boy under 14 years of age was unable to commit an offence that required that he be an agent participant in an act of sexual ourse. Rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, buggery, and offences of incestuous sexual ... ...
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Youth sex offending, recidivism and restorative justice: Comparing court and conference cases
... ... aged under 18 at the time of offence) charged with sexual offences, ranging from indecent exposure to rape, ... ...
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