Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (review)

Conley, Carolyn A.

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“…The definition remained a common law one until the first modern statutory formulation in s.1(1) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1976. While the common law definition had been used for centuries, there was a great deal of ambiguity regarding the meaning of the terms ‘will’ and even ‘carnal knowledge’ (Conley, 1986). It was commonplace to require medical evidence, though, and medical experts often commented on whether there had been a recent rupture of hymen (Bates, 2019), thereby, confirming both that penetration had taken place and providing an assessment whether the complainant had been a virgin before the alleged assault.…”

Section: Prosecuting Procurement 1885–1925mentioning

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Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England

Lammasniemi

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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This article examines the origins of procurement offences and their historical development in England. Procurement offences were created in 1885 to tackle so-called white slavery, as trafficking in women was then sensationally called. Through an analysis of a series of lower-level and appeal cases heard between the years of 1885 and 1925 and their social context, this article dispels myths about procurement for prostitution as an international, organised crime, showing instead how it was localised and poverty driven. The article also shows how procurement transformed from a narrowly defined trafficking-related offence into a broadly applied sexual offence. It came to be used as a ‘catch-all’ sexual offence that had the potential to encompass various distinct offences, from trafficking, rape and child sex abuse to deceptive sex. The legal history of the procurement is of particular importance as deception and questions of conditional consent remain deeply contested in modern criminal law.

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Section: Prosecuting Procurement 1885–1925mentioning

confidence: 99%

Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England

Lammasniemi

2022

Social & Legal Studies

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“…En effet, tout comme en Jordanie, les crimes d'honneur ont souvent été traduits au Pakistan à travers le prisme de la « provocation grave et soudaine » 68 De même, les règles de common law britannique, qui s'appliquaient jusqu'au début de l'« islamisation » du droit pakistanais en 1979, érigeaient en victime le mari d'une femme violée 72 . Cela avait notamment pour conséquence que l'agresseur pouvait empêcher toute poursuite relative à son crime en offrant une compensation monétaire au « protecteur masculin » de la victime 73 . Ces institutions juridiques ont été greffées à d'antiques moeurs tribales pakistanaises, donnant ainsi forme à de nouveaux phénomènes sociaux hybrides.…”

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Le droit comparé et la violence faite aux femmes : voyages au cœur de la narration identitaire

Fournier¹,

McDougall

2014

Droit Et Société

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Au Canada, et dans plusieurs autres pays occidentaux, les crimes d'honneur ont récemment fait l'objet d'une prolifération de discours au coeur desquels se trouve souvent l'idée d'un Occident civilisé opposé à des droits orientaux figés, rétrogrades. Or, la violence au nom de l'honneur n'est pas étrangère aux droits occidentaux et au droit canadien. Dans cet article, nous retraçons les migrations des crimes d'honneur de l'Occident à l'Orient et vice versa pour établir une généalogie de ce phénomène. Ensuite, nous nous attardons à la « défense de provocation », une institution juridique occidentale qui fait parfois resurgir l'honneur comme motif d'homicide à l'occasion de crimes dits passionnels. À partir de cette analyse de l'hybridité juridique, nous en appelons à une fructueuse rencontre des théories postcoloniales et du droit comparé et à une compréhension plus fine de la violence faite aux femmes. Crimes d'honneur-Droit pénal-Postcolonialisme-Transplantations juridiques-Canada-Jordanie-Pakistan.  Summary Comparative Law and Gendered Violence: Journey to the Heart of Narration and Identity In Canada, as throughout most of the geopolitical West, honor crimes have recently been the object of proliferating discourses that reify the notion of "Oriental" law as inherently contrary, even antithetical, to "civilized" Canadian law. Yet honor is no foreign notion to Western (and Canadian) law. In this article, we outline how socio-legal hybridity manifests itself in the notion of honor crimes, a category which long existed in the West and often travelled to the East. Then, we explore the (Western) "provocation defense," an institution historically rooted in male honor and whose concrete impact in Canada has sometimes been to uphold bruised honor as a motive for homicide. We close our analysis of legal hybridity by calling for a fruitful encounter between comparative law and postcolonial theory and for a better understanding of gendered violence.

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RSVP Bibliography: 2003-2005

Easley¹

2006

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Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness, and Criminal Justice in Victorian England (review)

Cited by 3 publications

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Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England

Trafficking, Rape, or Deceptive Sex? A Historical Examination of Procurement Offences in England

Le droit comparé et la violence faite aux femmes : voyages au cœur de la narration identitaire

RSVP Bibliography: 2003-2005

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