Observing Court Responses to Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault

Feminist Criminology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 298-326

  Smith, Olivia ^a   Skinner, Tina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adversarialism; courts; observation; rape; sexual assault; trials; victim justice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865735438     PISSN: 15570851     EISSN: 1557086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1557085112437875     Document Type: Article

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