Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault
Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and…
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Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault
This book examines the justice gap and trial process for sexual assault against both adults and children in two jurisdictions: England and Wales and New South Wales, Australia. Despite the introduction of the many reform options detailed in the book, satisfactory outcomes for victims and the public are still difficult to obtain.Cossins takes a new approach by examining the nature and effects of adversarialism on vulnerable witnesses, jury decision-making and the structures of power within the trial process, to show how, and at what points, that process is weighted against complainants of sexual assault, in order to make evidence-based suggestions for reform. Drawing on decades of research, it investigates the reality of the policing and prosecution of sexual assault offences - often seen as one of the 'hardest crimes to prosecute' - across two similar jurisdictions.
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