Contemporary Reforms to Cross-Examination
The review of the literature in Chapter 8 shows that cross-examination is used, and allowed to be used, as a method for producing inaccurate evidence that favours the defence case. The question is whether it is in the public interest for jurors to make de
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Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault Rethinking the Adversarial Trial
Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault
Anne Cossins
Closing the Justice Gap for Adult and Child Sexual Assault Rethinking the Adversarial Trial
Anne Cossins Honorary Professor and former Professor of Law and Criminology Faculty of Law University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-32050-6 ISBN 978-1-137-32051-3 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-32051-3
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Contents
1
Introduction
2
The Nature and Effects of Adversarialism: Jury Decision-Making in Sexual Assault Trials
3 4 5 6 7
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Factors That Predict Outcomes in Sexual Assault Trials
121
‘Commonsense’ or ‘Life Experience’: Jurors’ Perceptions of Guilt
153
‘No Means Yes and Yes Means Anal’: The Cultural Climate in Which Sex Offences Are Prosecuted
171
The Nature and Effects of Adversarialism: Sites of Activation for Heuristic Reasoning Processes
245
Modernisation of the Substantive Law of Consent
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Contents
Cross-Examination in Sexual Assault Trials: Evidentiary Safeguard or an Opportunity to Confuse?
339
Contemporary Reforms to Cross-Examination
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10 The Problems Facing Reformers of the Sexual Assault Trial 11
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Achieving Best Evidence for Vulnerable Witnesses: The Use of Trauma-Informed Theory to Reform the Se
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