Delay Pros Child Sex Abuse Omclj: C C

ISBN-13: 9780199282289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str.

Penney Lewis

Opis

Child sexual abuse prosecutions are often brought following a substantial delay of some years after the alleged abuse. This delay poses a variety of problems for the prosecutions. The book will examine the problems associated with criminal prosecutions commenced many years after the abusive incidents were alleged to have occurred, the response of the criminal justice system to such cases, and how the system should respond in order to ensure that the defendant receives a fair trial, while recognising the reasons why complainants may delay reporting abuse for many years.

Recenzje

In a thorough, well-structured and impeccably researched treatment of the topic, Lewis throws much-needed light on the complexities of the evidential issues that the courts must negotiate in considering often very severely delayed allegations of childhood sexual abuse. For academics and practitioners alike this is an enlightening read.

O autorze

Penney Lewis teaches criminal evidence and medical law at the School of Law, King's College London. She holds postgraduate law degrees from the University of Toronto, King's College London, and Columbia University, and clerked for Iacobucci J. at the Supreme Court of Canada. She is qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor in Ontario. From September 2007, she will be Professor of Law at King's College London.