Language, law, and society: policy implications of the Kennedy Smith rape trial.
The writer examines the applied relevance of trial talk for rape shield legislation and efforts to assess the effect of such legal reforms. Drawing on linguistic data from the Kennedy Smith rape trial, he argues that efforts to progressively implement rape shield have thus far been unsuccessful. I...
| Published in: | Law & Society Review Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 669 - 702 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
1995
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