Cambridge
University Press is publishing a new book on the legal history of sexual
offenses in Mandate Palestine next month.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Plausible Crime
Stories is not only the first in-depth study of the history of sex offences in
Mandate Palestine but it also pioneers an approach to the historical study of
criminal law and proof that focuses on plausibility. Doctrinal rules of
evidence only partially explain which crime stories make sense while others
fail to convince. Since plausibility is predicated on commonly held systems of
belief, it not only provides a key to the meanings individual social players
ascribe to the law but also yields insight into communal perceptions of the
legal system, self-identity, the essence of normality and deviance and notions
of gender, morality, nationality, ethnicity, age, religion and other cultural
institutions. Using archival materials, including documents relating to 147
criminal court cases, this socio-legal study of plausibility opens a window
onto a broad societal view of past beliefs, dispositions, mentalities,
tensions, emotions, boundaries and hierarchies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Orna Alyagon
Darr, Sapir Academic College, Israel and
Ono Academic College, Israel
Orna Alyagon Darr is a Senior Lecturer at the law schools of Sapir Academic College and Ono Academic College. She is the author of Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England (2011). Her work explores evidence law, criminal law and criminal procedure in their cultural, social and historical context, and her articles have been published in leading academic journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Continuity and Change and Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
Orna Alyagon Darr is a Senior Lecturer at the law schools of Sapir Academic College and Ono Academic College. She is the author of Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England (2011). Her work explores evidence law, criminal law and criminal procedure in their cultural, social and historical context, and her articles have been published in leading academic journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Continuity and Change and Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Legal
background
2. Cultural narratives
underlying proof: male-to-male offences
3. Plausibility
of children's testimonies: narrator's identity
4. Plausibility
and ethnicity: audience-narrator nexus
5. Plausible
emotions
6.
Corroboration: plausibility embedded in evidentiary standards
7. Implausible
counter-narratives
Conclusion
List of legal
cases
Appendix:
relevant criminal legislation
Bibliography
Index.
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