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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 its time for UKs 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 whove 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 Services) new rape toolkit might make welcome headlines, she wrote, but I wont 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
Why do men think it is some one else's fault when they make a bad decision?
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#4
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
Response to niyad (Original post)
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cyberswede
(26,117 posts)2. tick tock...
niyad
(112,435 posts)14. pizza delivered.
niyad
(112,435 posts)3. what flavour pizza do you like?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)5. Looks like DU is out of pizza. He's still here...
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)4. Why do men think it is some one else's fault when they make a bad decision?
It is was to say something the woman did rather than admit they made a bad decision and could not control raping women.
trumad
(41,692 posts)7. I just alerted on you...
I love taking out the trash.
niyad
(112,435 posts)9. I hope you used the lavender-scented trash bags.
Cat litter lining.
niyad
(112,435 posts)12. ah, yes, much better.
trumad
(41,692 posts)11. The Pizza has been served.
niyad
(112,435 posts)13. thank you. I was beginning to think the delivery person had gotten lost.
trumad
(41,692 posts)15. The Pizza was called Tombstone.
That troll is dead!
niyad
(112,435 posts)16. well, at least until its next incarnation!!
Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)8. That study sounds extremely far fetched do you have a link to back it up?
Taitertots
(7,745 posts)6. Who will be the first women that is asked to prove she didn't rape a drunk man?
What "hard evidence" will she have to present?
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)17. Actually, this might happen in the UK.
Probably not in the US.