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niyad

(112,435 posts)
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 06:35 PM Jan 2015

New UK Guidelines Would Put the Onus on Rape Suspects, Not Victims, in Sexual Violence Cases


New UK Guidelines Would Put the Onus on Rape Suspects, Not Victims, in Sexual Violence Cases


This week, the Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said it’s time for UK’s legal system to put the onus on the attacker, rather than the victim, in rape cases, and outlined a new set of legal guidelines to make that happen. If the new guidelines are utilized, rape suspects will be required to offer hard proof that consent was given “with full capacity and freedom to do so.”

“For too long society has blamed rape victims for confusing the issue of consent, by drinking or dressing provocatively, for example, but it is not they who are confused, it is society itself and we must challenge that,” Saunders said in the Telegraph article.

The Guardian noted that some pitfalls of the new guidelines may include the use of social media platforms to set up false narratives. Harriet Wistritch, who wrote the opinion piece, has given legal advice to rape victims who’ve been “deeply unhappy” with the way their cases were handled by police officers. Wistritch argues that while new, more innovative guidelines are welcome, officers need to be adhering to guidelines already in place.

“The (Crown Prosecution Service’s) new rape toolkit might make welcome headlines,” she wrote, “but I won’t be celebrating until police officers and prosecutors are made to put existing policies and guidelines in practice or face appropriate sanction for failing to do so.”

http://feminist.org/blog/index.php/2015/01/30/new-uk-guidelines-would-put-the-onus-on-rape-suspects-not-victims-in-sexual-violence-cases/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FeministDailyNews+%28Feminist+Daily+News%29
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New UK Guidelines Would Put the Onus on Rape Suspects, Not Victims, in Sexual Violence Cases (Original Post) niyad Jan 2015 OP
Post removed Post removed Jan 2015 #1
tick tock... cyberswede Jan 2015 #2
pizza delivered. niyad Jan 2015 #14
what flavour pizza do you like? niyad Jan 2015 #3
Looks like DU is out of pizza. He's still here... freshwest Jan 2015 #5
Why do men think it is some one else's fault when they make a bad decision? Thinkingabout Jan 2015 #4
I just alerted on you... trumad Jan 2015 #7
I hope you used the lavender-scented trash bags. niyad Jan 2015 #9
Nope trumad Jan 2015 #10
ah, yes, much better. niyad Jan 2015 #12
The Pizza has been served. trumad Jan 2015 #11
thank you. I was beginning to think the delivery person had gotten lost. niyad Jan 2015 #13
The Pizza was called Tombstone. trumad Jan 2015 #15
well, at least until its next incarnation!! niyad Jan 2015 #16
That study sounds extremely far fetched do you have a link to back it up? Exultant Democracy Jan 2015 #8
Who will be the first women that is asked to prove she didn't rape a drunk man? Taitertots Jan 2015 #6
Actually, this might happen in the UK. McCamy Taylor Jan 2015 #17
. . . niyad Feb 2015 #18

Response to niyad (Original post)

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
4. Why do men think it is some one else's fault when they make a bad decision?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:02 PM
Jan 2015

It is was to say something the woman did rather than admit they made a bad decision and could not control raping women.

 

Taitertots

(7,745 posts)
6. Who will be the first women that is asked to prove she didn't rape a drunk man?
Fri Jan 30, 2015, 07:11 PM
Jan 2015

What "hard evidence" will she have to present?

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