The Synthetic Necessary Truth Behind New Labour’s Criminalisation of Incest
@article{Roffee2014TheSN, title={The Synthetic Necessary Truth Behind New Labour’s Criminalisation of Incest}, author={J. Roffee}, journal={Social & Legal Studies}, year={2014}, volume={23}, pages={113 - 130} }
Finlayson’s emergent rhetorical political analysis is used in this article to examine arguments made in support of the criminalisation of both consensual and non-consensual adult familial sexual activity, as part of a key governmental review and report on sexual offences (Setting the Boundaries (the Report)). The argument presented in this article is that a ‘synthetic necessary truth’ was created in the justification of the criminalisation of an activity that would otherwise be permissible… CONTINUE READING
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