Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

ISBN-13: 9781108739634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 215 str.

Orna Alyagon Darr

Opis

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.

Recenzje

'Like all good scholarly monographs, Orna Alyagon Darr's terrific book … is in fact several books in one. For historians of Britain and the Middle East, [it] provides an illuminating addition to scholarship on the British Mandate in Palestine by incorporating a gendered approach to its legal history. For legal scholars, and especially historians among them, [it] emphasizes the importance of a history of evidentiary and procedural norms and practices, rather than the more commonly studied substantive fields. Similarly, [it] provides specialists in evidence law a much-needed historicization and rationale for many of its ostensibly neutral doctrinal norms, such as the requirement of corroboration in cases of sexual assault. Finally, for activists and scholars interested in understanding the complexity of sex offences, Darr provides an important historicization of their legislation and adjudication, a history that defamiliarizes much that we take for granted about sex offences by uncovering their roots in colonial systems and discourses.' Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Law, Culture and the Humanities

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Legal background; 2. Cultural narratives underlying proof: male-to-male offences; 3. Plausibility of children's testimonies: narrator's identity; 4. Plausibility and ethnicity: audience-narrator nexus; 5. Plausible emotions; 6. Corroboration: plausibility embedded in evidentiary standards; 7. Implausible counter-narratives; Conclusion; List of legal cases; Appendix: relevant criminal legislation; Bibliography; Index.