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Inducing Intimacy

Deception, Consent and the Law

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvChloë Kennedy,Chloe (University of Edinburgh) Kennedy,Chloë

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Kennedy presents a new way of evaluating the regulation of deceptively induced intimacy, that is, sex and sexual/romantic relationships, on the basis of an innovative genealogy of legal responses to this conduct. This book traces the development of a range of civil and criminal laws across c. 250 years, showing how using deception to induce intimacy has been legally understood, compensated and punished. It offers an original interpretation of the form and function of these laws by situating them in their social and cultural contexts. It argues that prevailing notions of what makes intimacy valuable, including the role it plays in self-construction, have shaped and constrained the laws' operation. It shows how deceptively induced sex has come to be treated more seriously while the opposite is true of deceptively induced relationships and concludes by presenting a new framework for deciding whether and when deceptively induced intimacy should be regulated by law today.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-11-07
Mått176 x 250 x 22 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLaw in Context
Antal sidor276
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009361101

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Chloë Kennedy is Professor of Law and History at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in the areas of criminal law, legal history, legal theory, and law and gender. She is the co-editor of two books – Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hart, 2019) and Leading Works in Criminal Law (Routledge, 2023). Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law is the product of a research fellowship Chloë was awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

'Chloë Kennedy's new monograph breaks new ground by considering the law's response to deceptively induced intimacy across both civil and criminal law over more than two centuries. It demonstrates enormous breadth of research and aligns analytical rigour with sensitivity to the human stories to which the law has been required to respond. The broad sweep of Kennedy's work allows for modern day laws to be understood in their fullest context.' James Chalmers, Regius Professor of Law, University of Glasgow