This book looks at the state of the law on rape in Australia, expanding upon the 1998 book 'Balancing the scales: rape, law reform and Australian culture'. A particular theme is 'contestation', which the authors argue is central to rape law. Chapters include: contesting consent: a free and voluntary standard?; contesting partner intimacy and abuse of trust; contesting fault: beyond legal binaries; contesting harms: primary and secondary trauma; contesting fairness: 'fair game' versus 'fair go' in the trial and investigation process; contesting 'the other': intersectionality and fault; contesting punishment: sentencing; contesting criminal responsibility for rape: reframing institutional and individual complicity; and beyond balancing, towards human dignity.
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