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

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

Orna Alyagon Darr is a Senior Lecturer at the law schools of Sapir Academic College and Ono Academic College. She is the author of Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England (2011). Her work explores evidence law, criminal law and criminal procedure in their cultural, social and historical context, and her articles have been published in leading academic journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Continuity and Change and Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.

Summary

What makes one crime story convincing and another implausible? Evidence law provides only a partial answer. This study explores the meaning of plausibility and the materials from which it is constituted in a particular historical and socio-cultural setting: proving sex offences in Mandate Palestine.

Product details

• Authors: Orna Alyagon Darr
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108497237
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49723-7
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Law in Context; Law in Context
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Rechtsgeschichte, Palästina, Zwischen den Weltkriegen (1919 bis 1939 n. Chr.), Verbrechen und Kriminologie (Kriminalistik), Strafgerichtsbarkeit, LAW / Criminal Law / General, Recht und Gesellschaft, Rechtssoziologie, Legal History, Palestine, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Criminal justice law, Criminal Procedure: Law Of Evidence, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law