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TY - JOUR
T1 - Marital rape in the news
AU - Soothill, Keith
AU - Grover, Chris
PY - 1994
Y1 - 1994
N2 - Legal recognition of marital rape as a crime occurred in England and Wales in 1991. A study of nine newspapers during the first complete year of operation (1992) indicates that media coverage of marital rape cases has been muted. Six cases were reported in 1992 illustrating a wide range of contexts of marital rape. Only cases where the husband with a drink problem threatened his estranged wife with a knife before raping her resulted in a prison sentence. The notion of estrangement accompanied by violence seemed usefully to endorse the traditional stereotype of rape, so these cases appeared non-contentious. The other cases which were more challenging as cases of marital rape produced outcomes which seemed unsatisfactory for the women involved in a variety of ways. Surprisingly, there is no evidence of any marital rape cases being mentioned in The Times in 1993 which suggests either that the new crime of marital rape is not being much used or that there is now an avoidance of potentially contentious cases coming before the courts
AB - Legal recognition of marital rape as a crime occurred in England and Wales in 1991. A study of nine newspapers during the first complete year of operation (1992) indicates that media coverage of marital rape cases has been muted. Six cases were reported in 1992 illustrating a wide range of contexts of marital rape. Only cases where the husband with a drink problem threatened his estranged wife with a knife before raping her resulted in a prison sentence. The notion of estrangement accompanied by violence seemed usefully to endorse the traditional stereotype of rape, so these cases appeared non-contentious. The other cases which were more challenging as cases of marital rape produced outcomes which seemed unsatisfactory for the women involved in a variety of ways. Surprisingly, there is no evidence of any marital rape cases being mentioned in The Times in 1993 which suggests either that the new crime of marital rape is not being much used or that there is now an avoidance of potentially contentious cases coming before the courts
U2 - 10.1080/09585189408410847
DO - 10.1080/09585189408410847
M3 - Journal article
VL - 5
SP - 539
EP - 549
JO - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
SN - 1469-9478
IS - 3
ER -