Implementing Law Reform: The Outcomes and Values of Empirical Research

‘I Think it’s Rape and I Think He Would be Found Not Guilty’: Focus Group Perceptions of (un)Reasonable Belief in Consent in Rape Law

W Larcombe, B Fileborn, A Powell, N Hanley, N Henry

2016-10-01

A legal definition of rape that exonerates an accused who ‘reasonably believes in consent’ is currently in force in a number of ju..