Free Handbook on Sexual Violence by Jennifer Brown Sandra. Walklate

conviction rates in order that there is both a clear and commonly used metric whereby agencies and the public understand what is being measured.
    Joan McGregor’s suggestions of more radical reform, such as relabelling sexual assault to conform to the rules of physical rather than sexual assault, might at least see more defendants in the dock but risk obscuring the unique harm of rape. Differential penalties for unaggravated assaults could imply some rapes are worse than others. Liz Kelly’s pioneering work in the 1980s
    argued against such comparisons. The essays presented in the chapters here find her continuum of sexual violence helpful in so far as it shows its emergence out of the routines of everyday life, and its ubiquitousness, but that level of generality limits its explanatory power.

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    Chapter 1 ‌

    Sexual violence in history: a contemporary heritage?
    Shani D’Cruze

    Meet Shani D’Cruze
    Shani D’Cruze first found herself researching the history of sexual violence when the 99 per cent male academic department where she was a junior researcher proposed a project on that topic. The department soon gave up the idea, but she went on eventually to publish a monograph, Crimes of Outrage: Sex, Violence and Victorian Working Women (UCL Press 1998). Most of her academic publications are on gender and the history of violence. After a career based in English universities she has run away to Greece where she combines academic research and writing with Cretan rural living. She is currently Honorary Reader in the Research Institute for Law, Politics and Justice at Keele University. Recent publications include: Murder: Social and Historical Approaches to Understanding Murder and