Rereading identity deception in the UK Sexual Offences Act 2003 : incorporating personal traits and attributes / Rakiya Farah.
2023
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Rereading identity deception in the UK Sexual Offences Act 2003 : incorporating personal traits and attributes / Rakiya Farah.
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9783031444753 (electronic bk.)
3031444752 (electronic bk.)
9783031444746
3031444744
3031444752 (electronic bk.)
9783031444746
3031444744
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Cham : Springer, [2023]
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©2023
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English
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1 online resource (x, 130 pages).
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10.1007/978-3-031-44475-3 doi
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KD7975
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345.41/0253
Summary
Does the Sexual Offences Act (SOA) 2003 provide for consent to be vitiated in all the circumstances we think it should? Can, and should, section 76(2)(b) (the impersonation provision) be read to include a different class of identity deceptions? How should the concept of personal identity be understood in this context? While the concept has had some airing in the courts, and the distinction between identity and attributes of the person softened, the law on rape still fails to give proper effect to identity deception and leaves many questions unanswered. This book offers a novel take on the problem of sexual deception. Through meticulous interrogation of the meaning and normative implications of the concept of personal identity, it challenges the law’s restrictive approach and argues that qualitative identity is, like numerical identity, normatively important. This book provides a comprehensive and nuanced analysis of the philosophical, theoretical, and psychological experimental literature on personal identity, marshalling relevant insights to support a broader reading of the impersonation provision. The argumentative thrust of the book is an extended equivalence thesis, which links numerical with qualitative identity. In this task, it engages in capacious exploration of different kinds of impersonation, at each juncture leading the reader to a more permissive understanding. Guided by the principle of consistency, the central thesis is that certain deceptions about personal traits should be unlawful based on existing prohibitions with which there is equivalence. A central contribution of the book is the articulation of a theoretical framework to support a richer understanding of identity, giving due attention to its qualitative aspects. This new framework is applied at stage three of the equivalence thesis to explain the relationship between individual traits and identity change. By implication, a potentially wide scope of consent-vitiating deceptions is endorsed. This presents a challenge to those who would defend more stringent limits. The book thus invites further discussion on the implications of this approach for the law on rape and indicates areas for further research and attention.
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SpringerBriefs in law. 2192-8568
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Part I: Law’s Problem with Identity
Chapter 2: Persons and the Law
Chapter 3: Identity in Sexual Offences Law
Chapter 4: Deception as to Identity: Three Rationales
Part II: Towards a New Approach
Chapter 5: Personal Identity in Social Theory: Formation, Persistence, Change
Chapter 6: The Social-Relational Self
Part III: Equivalence Thesis
Chapter 7: Equivalence Thesis A
Chapter 8: Equivalence Thesis B
Chapter 9: Equivalence Thesis C
Chapter 10: Concluding Remarks.
Part I: Law’s Problem with Identity
Chapter 2: Persons and the Law
Chapter 3: Identity in Sexual Offences Law
Chapter 4: Deception as to Identity: Three Rationales
Part II: Towards a New Approach
Chapter 5: Personal Identity in Social Theory: Formation, Persistence, Change
Chapter 6: The Social-Relational Self
Part III: Equivalence Thesis
Chapter 7: Equivalence Thesis A
Chapter 8: Equivalence Thesis B
Chapter 9: Equivalence Thesis C
Chapter 10: Concluding Remarks.