The 'ideal' victim V successful rape complainants: Not what you might expect

Feminist Legal Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 131-148

  Larcombe, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complainant; Discourse analysis; Rape; Rape defences; Rape victim; Resistance; Sexualisation; Trial process

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645297437     PISSN: 09663622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016060424945     Document Type: Article

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