Sexual Assault: Law Reform in a Comparative Perspective

Sexual assault law has been undergoing significant shifts around the world. Traditional criminal laws against sexual assault had a narrow scope: they targeted rape as coerced sexual intercourse, and they defined coercion as physical violence or threats with physical violence. Modern offense descriptions are tracing a change in the logic and structure of criminal laws against sexual assault from the offenders' violence to the victims' lack of consent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019886339X
• ISBN13: 9780198863397
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 8.8"