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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer Complementarity Rape and Consent by Eithne Dowds
This work develops the feminist strategy of ‘norm transfer’: ie that feminist informed standards at the international level should move into domestic contexts. Taking the definition of rape at the International Criminal Court (ICC) as a case study it offers a new perspective on the relationship between consent and coercion. As well as arguing that the definition of rape needs revision the book goes further by setting out draft legislative amendments to the ICC ‘Elements of Crimes’ and its Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Moving onto the domestic landscape it drafts amendments to the United Kingdom (UK) Sexual Offences Act 2003 and to the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.