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A highly original monograph examining the role of men in shaping the criminal law, specifically through the law of rape and its main immunity within marriage, to the eventual dissolution of this immunity. Since, men as the central characters of criminal law have become even harder to discern, and their past dominance simply forgotten, to the considerable cost of the fairness and civility of the criminal law.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1a Introduction Chapter 1 Problem Illustrated: The landmark marital rape case of DPP v Morgan and its mixed significance for the men of law Chapter 2 The Criminal World: The landmark marital rape case of DPP v Morgan and its mixed significance for the men of law Chapter 3 Hale, Blackstone and the Character of Men: The importance of personal border control Chapter 4 JS Mill, Stephen and the Victorian Mentality Chapter 5 The Cast of Men: The Bounded Man, the Domestic Monarch and the Sexual Master Chapter 6 From Supremacy to Euphemism: Good Men Trapped in their Own Assumptions Chapter 7 Modernisation Or Men Assuming Responsibility without Taking Responsibility Chapter 8 The Invisible Man: Why the men of law cannot see the men of law Chapter 9 The Modern Individual of Criminal Law Chapter 10 Men, Women, and Civil Society: Male civility in the twenty first century Chapter 11 Recapitulation

About the Author

Ngaire Naffine is Bonython Professor of Law at the University of Adelaide, Australia.