RT Book
T1 Plausible crime stories: the legal history of sexual offences in mandate Palestine
T2 Law in context
A1 Darr, Orna Alyagon
LA English
PP Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2020
ED First paperback edition
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1696742145
AB "Plausible Crime Stories is not only the first in-depth study of the history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine but it also pioneers an approach to the historical study of criminal law and proof that focuses on plausibility. Doctrinal rules of evidence only partially explain which crime stories make sense while others fail to convince. Since plausibility is predicated on commonly held systems of belief, it not only provides a key to the meanings individual social players ascribe to the law but also yields insight into communal perceptions of the legal system, self-identity, the essence of normality and deviance and notions of gender, morality, nationality, ethnicity, age, religion and other cultural institutions. Using archival materials, including documents relating to 147 criminal court cases, this socio-legal study of plausibility opens a window onto a broad societal view of past beliefs, dispositions, mentalities, tensions, emotions, boundaries and hierarchies"--
CN KMQ1420
SN 9781108739634
K1 Sex crimes : Law and legislation : Palestine : History : 20th century
K1 Trials (Sex crimes) : Palestine : History : 20th century
K1 Palestine : History : 1917-1948
K1 Palästina : Sexualdelikt : Geschichte 1933- 1947