《guilt project, the》是2010年Random House US出版的圖書，作者是Vanessa Place。
基本介紹
- 中文名：guilt project, the
- 作者：Vanessa Place
- 出版社：Random House US
- ISBN：9781590512647
內容簡介,作者簡介,
內容簡介
An English court in 1736 described rape as an accusation“easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defendedby the party accused, though never so innocent. ”To prove thecrime, the law required a woman to physically resist, to put up a“hue and cry,” as evidence of her unwillingness. Beginning in the1970s, however, feminist and victim-advocacy groups began changingattitudes toward rape so the crime is now seen as violent initself: the legal definition of rape now includes everything fromthe sadistic serial rapist to the eighteen-year-old who hasconsensual sex with a fourteen-year-old.This inclusiveness means there are now more rapists among us. Andmore of rape’s camp followers: the prison-makers, the communitywatchdogs, law-and-order politicians, and the real-crime/real-timeentertainment industry. Vanessa Place examines the ambiguity ofrape law by presenting cases where guilt lies, but lies uneasily,and leads into larger ethical questions of what defines guilt, whatis justice, and what is considered just punishment. Assuming asociety can and must be judged by the way it treats its mostdespicable members, The Guilt Project looks at the way the Americanlegal system defines, prosecutes, and punishes sex offenders, howthis Dateline NBC justice has transformed our conception of who isguilty and how they ought to be treated, and how this has come toundo our deeper humanity.
作者簡介
Vanessa Place is a writer and criminal appellate attorney practicing in Los Angeles. She has worked on the appeals of more than a thousand indigent felons, specializing in sex offenders and sexually violent predators. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a fifty-thousand-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa; and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms. Place is co-founder of Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as “an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily assured and ingenious sort.”
