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This accessible book mounts an important interrogation into the use of a victim’s sexual history as evidence in rape trials. Adopting a critical multidisciplinary perspective underpinned by feminist theory, the authors explore the role and significance of sexual history evidence in criminal justice responses to rape. The use of a rape victim’s sexual history as evidence attracted intense public attention after the acquittal of footballer Ched Evans in 2017. Set within the context of a criminal justice system widely perceived to be failing rape victims, the use of sexual history evidence remains a flashpoint of contention around rape law reform.

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9781529207828

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"""Can women count on law? When women complain of violent sexual crime, can they expect to be properly heard as rational legal subjects? This book shows how and why medieval male mythology about women's sexuality, credibility and mendacity still make its way into the modern criminal court room, especially the rape trial. This book is a powerful, even devastating, critique of criminal justice as women experience it."" Ngaire Naffine, The University of Adelaide"

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Joanne Conaghan is Professor of Law at the University of Bristol. Yvette Russell is Associate Professor in Law and Feminist Theory at the University of Bristol.

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