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Rape and the Criminal Trial

Reconceptualising the Courtroom as an Affective Assemblage

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Authors:
  1. Anna Carline

    1. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

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  2. Clare Gunby

    1. Institute for Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

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  3. Jamie Murray

    1. Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

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  • Adopts a theoretical approach to exploring legal responses to sexual violence against women
  • Applies New Materialism to explore a specific aspect of the legal system’s response: the use of special measures in the court room
  • Provides insights for policy-makers and practitioners

Part of the book series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies (PSLS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 1-22

  3. Mapping the Theory and the Conviction Rate Attractor

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 23-40

  4. Courtroom Expressions: The Intermingling of the Semiotic and Material Regimes

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 41-60

  5. Courtroom Performances: Drama, but not Representational Drama

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 61-80

  6. Deleuze’s Materialist Philosophy of Affect and Sense

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 81-103

  7. Complexity Theory, Deleuze and Guattari’s Affective Assemblage Theory and the Courtroom as Affective Assemblage

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 105-128

  8. Conclusion: Techniques of Affect and Adaptive Management

    • Anna Carline, Clare Gunby, Jamie Murray
    Pages 129-142

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 143-147
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About this book

This book explores the shortcomings of the criminal justice system’s response to sexual violence. Despite a plethora of legal and policy reforms, concerns remain regarding the conviction rates for rape and the extent to which cases fall out of the system. Ample research has highlighted the ongoing impact of ‘rape myths’ and the presence of an ‘implementation gap’ whereby policies, provisions and measures — proposed in order to improve the system’s response — are frequently not brought into practice, nor utilised as expected. Rape and the Criminal Trial proposes a move beyond representational theory and towards New Materialism and affects, a school of thought which emphasises the importance of embodiment and the ontological intensive regime as necessary in order to generate radical new approaches for understanding this problematic status quo, and in order to move forward to the production of more effective solutions. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

    Anna Carline

  • Institute for Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

    Clare Gunby

  • Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, UK

    Jamie Murray

About the authors

Anna Carline is Associate Professor in Law at the University of Leicester, UK. 

Clare Gunby is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. 

Jamie Murray is Senior Law Lecturer at Liverpool Hope University, UK. 







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