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We do not need the changes to the law of rape that the Sexual Offences Bill will introduce. While the enhanced protection for victims of rape is desirable, undermining the very nature of the British criminal justice is too high a price to pay - Discuss.
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Katie Gannon Criminal Law and Justice Essay 26.11.03 We do not need the changes to the law of rape that the Sexual Offences Bill will introduce. While the enhanced protection for victims of rape is desirable, undermining the very nature of the British criminal justice is too high a price to pay. Discuss with reference to mens rea. Rape is an extremely serious crime that can have a devastating impact on its victims and as such it carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. In the case of a stranger attacking someone in a darkened alley way it cannot be contested that the attacker genuinely believed in his victims consent, however so-called stranger rapes only account for 12% of all reported rapes with parties in all other instances having at least casually known each other, if not being engaged in a prior sexual relationship1. It is in these circumstances that once the act of...
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