Hearing all That is Expressed
A Feminist Listening to the Silencing of Rape Complainants While Giving Evidence
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12282979 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Paulette Benton-Greig (0000-0001-9758-1750, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand., autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-07-21 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Social & Legal Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0964-6639 • E-ISSN: 1461-7390 |
| Editorial | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/09646639251357420 |
| OpenAlex | W4412531651 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 42 |
In this article, I bring a feminist ear to 30 Aotearoa/New Zealand rape trials to explore what they reveal about courtroom listening to adult female complainants. Listening for all complainant expression exposes myriad instantiations of complainants being silenced and misheard, and their words refused, dismissed and reframed. From these, I identify three practices of silencing that demonstrate not only a failure to hear and listen, but also the double abandonment of ‘ethical loneliness’ in which institutions that are meant to hear and care, force speech under the guise of listening, but then fail to respond and to protect. This feminist listening draws attention to the ethical and social dimensions of why many rape complainants experience giving evidence at trial as re-victimising. I argue that it suggests the potential benefits of in-court observation programmes and that the practices of rape trial questioning need close examination and reform
Active listening · Biology · Gene · Gene silencing · Political science · Sociology · Communication · Law in Society and Culture · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies · Genetics
Revealing Rape’s Many Voices
Doing Feminist Research in Political and Social Science
Socio-cultural representations of the vagina
A Gap or A Chasm?
Saints, Sluts and Sexual Assault
Aftermath
Differences in accounts and the ‘lying’ complainant
Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England
Anatomy of a rape
Silly Girls” and “Nice Young Lads”
Falling Rape Conviction Rates
The `Ideal' Victim v Successful Rape Complainants
How Rape Myths Are Used and Challenged in Rape and Sexual Assault Trials
Telling stories without the words
Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing
Sexual Assault Law, Credibility, and “Ideal Victims”
Coping with the Experience of Rape
Rape and Attrition in the Legal Process
The inhospitable court
Lawyers’ Strategies for Cross-Examining Rape Complainants
Sexual Assault in Canada
Rape Myths
Beyond Women's Voices
Feminist Methods in Social Research
Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint
Rape and Respectability
I Don't Have to be Afraid of You
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 1 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |