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List of contents
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Tracing the interest in victims, victims’ rights and sexual assault law reform
Chapter 3: Procedural justice
Chapter 4: Providing a check on prosecutorial decision-making
Chapter 5: Separate legal representation for victims under section 34 of the Sex Offenders Act 2001 (Irl)
Chapter 6: Victim participation through the SACVR
Chapter 7: The prospect of ILR for sexual assault victims within Victoria’s criminal prosecution process
Chapter 8: Concluding comments
References
Appendices
About the author
Mary Iliadis is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Deakin University, Australia, and co-convenor of the Deakin Research into Violence Against Women Hub. Her research adopts a socio-legal framework to examine, critique and impact the rights and treatment of victims of sexual violence in criminal justice systems. More broadly, Mary researches police and prosecutorial discretion in response to gendered violence, including domestic, family and sexual violence, and explores how access to justice is negotiated by victims in criminal trials. In 2019, she was awarded a St Mary’s College Visiting Women’s Fellowship at Durham University, UK and a visiting scholarly position at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She was also nominated as a Semi-Finalist for The Bridge Create Change Award (Seven News Young Achiever Awards (2019)). In 2020, Mary won the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology prize for best ECR publication in criminology. This recognises her standing and leadership in intellectual contributions to her field. Her research has featured in government circles, and she has also received outstanding recognition of her submission to Northern Ireland’s Gillen Review into The Law and Procedures in Serious Sexual Offences.
Summary
Adversarial Justice and Victims’ Rights explores the extent to which reforms that offer victims enhanced rights to information and participation across England and Wales, Ireland and South Australia can address sexual assault victims’ procedural and substantive justice concerns.
