The recent reform of sexual offences legislation engaged ...



Friday and Saturday 18-19 March 2005

Gender, Sexuality and Law

Theory and Practice

SEX IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE

A joint venture of: Keele, Kent and Westminster Law Schools

Venue: Room 3.07, School of Law,

University of Westminster

4-12 Little Titchfield St,

London W1W 7UW

Nearest Underground Station: Oxford Circus

SEX IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE:

The recent reform of sexual offences legislation engaged the Home Office in a broad process of consultation with criminal justice professionals, advocacy groups and academics, the extent of which was reflected in the publications “Setting the Boundaries” and “Protecting the Public”. The various Acts that arose out of this, culminating in the Sexual Offences Act 2003, were explicit attempts to balance the delivery of greater autonomy and equality in consensual sexual relations, with a simultaneous increase in the law’s ability to protect people’s physical integrity and diminish their vulnerability to exploitation or abuse.

This workshop aims to bring together a similar (if smaller) constituency of academics, activists, and professionals to examine some of these new provisions as well as other relevant legal developments, and to consider this balancing of autonomy and protection in more critical detail. Questions around consent constantly reappear throughout a number of the presentations, though each different inflection produces a different response.

This workshop therefore aims to develop the intersectionality of the issues through the broad and active engagement of a variety of participants with papers that are not solely focused on legalistic issues of a doctrinal nature.

PROGRAMME:

Friday 17 March 2005

13h30 – REGISTRATION – ROOM 3.12

14h00–15h30 Session 1 :

Protecting Children From Sexual Abuse & Exploitation On The Internet

Chair: Chris Hamerton

1. John Carr (NCH Children and Technology Unit ) - “The Doctrine of Unintended and Unforeseen Consequences Strikes Again! Or How a Great Invention Gave New Life to Old Risks!”

2. Matthew Sarti (Child Abuse Investigation Unit, Metropolitan Police) “Policing the Internet: Bringing Offenders to Justice”

3. Julia Davidson and Elena Martelozzo (Uni of Westminster) – “Protecting Children Online: The Role of Schools and the Police” 

15h30 - 16h00 Tea And Coffee – Room 3.12

16h00–17h30 Session 2 : Regulating the Sexual Lives of Young People

Chair: Maggie Sumner

1. Matthew Waites (Sheffield Hallam Uni) – "Reconceptualising the Age of Consent: An Argument for Change"

2. Roger Giner-Sorolla (Surrey Uni) – Topic TBC

1745 - 18h30 AHRB CENTRE FOR LAW, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY RECEPTION – Fyvie Hall, Regent Street

ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE WELCOME

18h30 – 20h00 AHRB Annual Lecture, NLT1, Regent St.

Professor Kendall Thomas (Columbia University):

‘If There Is Such A Thing:

Race, Sex and the Politics of Enjoyment in the Killing State’.

Saturday 18 March 2005

10h00 -11h00 Session 3 : Consent and Drug-Assisted Rape

Chair: Caroline Derry

1. Vanessa Munro (King’s College, London) - “Drug Assisted Rape, Intoxicated Consent & the Sexual Offences Act 2003: Preliminary Findings from a Jury Study”

2. Miranda Horvath (Uni of Surrey) – “An Exploration Of Drug-Assisted Rape And Sexual Assault”

11h00-11h30 Tea and Coffee – Room 3.12

11h30-13h00 Session 4 : Rape and the Sexual Offences Act (2003)

Chair: Caroline Boulby

1. Liz Kelly (London Metropolitan Uni) -“A Gap or a Chasm: Understanding Attrition in Reported Rape Cases”

2. Nadine Sime (ROW) – “A Critique Of The Provisions On Rape In The SOA 2003”

3. Sharon Cowan (Edinburgh Uni) – "Reforming The Law Of Rape: Reflections On Reasonableness, Consent And The Freedom And Capacity To Choose"

13h00 – 14h00 - LUNCH - ROOM 3.12

14h00-15h30 Session 5 : Gender, Sexuality and The Death Penalty

Chair: Harriet Samuels

1. Nicola Browne (Westminster) - “Gender and The Death Penalty in Nigerian Sharia Law”

2. Rupa Reddy (Westminster) - “Honour Killings as a Form of Non-State Execution”

3. Seema Kandelia (Westminster) - “Incestuous Rape and The Death Penalty in the Philippines”

15h30 – 16h00 Tea and Coffee – ROOM 3.12

16h00 – 18h00 Session 6 : Participatory Session

Criminal Responsibility, Sexual Agency and Engaged Activism

Catherine Dodds (Sigma), Daniel Monk (Birkbeck College), Peter Smit (Dutch HIV Organisation) and Matthew Weait (Keele University)

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