Inducing Intimacy - Deception, Consent and the Law

This book will interest lawyers and historians who want to learn about legal responses to sex and sexual/romantic relationships which have been induced by deception. It shows how a range of civil and criminal laws have been used in this context and offers insights into whether and why the law should be used in this way today.

List of contents

1. Inducing intimacy: an introduction; Part I. Marriage: 2. Making Marriage; 3. Promising Marriage; 4. Faking Marriage; Part II. Sex: 5. Eliciting Sex; 6. Procuring Sex; 7. Imposing Sex; 8. Inducing intimacy: a conclusion.

About the author

Chloë Kennedy is Professor of Law and History at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in the areas of criminal law, legal history, legal theory, and law and gender. She is the co-editor of two books – Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hart, 2019) and Leading Works in Criminal Law (Routledge, 2023). Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law is the product of a research fellowship Chloë was awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Product details

• Authors: Chlo? (University of Edinburgh) Kennedy, Chloë Kennedy, Chloe (University of Edinburgh) Kennedy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9781009361057
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0936105-7
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Law in Context
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, International Criminal Law, Gender studies, gender groups, Public international law: criminal law, Law & society, Criminal law: offences against the person, Offences against the person, Law and society, sociology of law, criminal law; socio-legal studies; sexual offences