Sexual Consent and Epistemic Partiality in Rape Fact-Finding

Sexual Consent and Epistemic Partiality in Rape Fact-Finding

Feminist legal theory has contested rape laws and notions of sexual consent to better reflect the experiences of survivors and address power distortions in legal frameworks that perpetuate women’s subordination. In this paper, I explore an alternative form of criticism to consent-based rape laws and...

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Main Author:	Talita Ferrantelli
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Instituto Brasileiro de Direito Processual Penal 2023-10-01
Series:	Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal
Subjects:	rape laws; sexual consent; evidentiary procedures; justification; epistemic partiality.
Online Access:	https://revista.ibraspp.com.br/RBDPP/article/view/776
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