Rape and the Criminal Trial

Chapter 1 - Introduction
1.1 Reconceptualising the Courtroom
1.2 Engaging with the Book: Affective and Non-Representational Approaches
1.3 New Materialism and Affect Theory
1.4 Empirical and Theoretical Methodologies
1.4.1 Methodology one: Exploring Affects through Interviews with Barristers
1.4.2 Methodology Two: Problem Space, Problematics and Phase Space1.5 Setting the Scene: Criminal Justice Reponses to Rape
1.5.1 Substantive Law: Sexual Offences Act 2003
1.5.2 ''Mistake Assumptions'' Judicial Directions
1.5.3 Special Measures
1.6 Conclusion
1.7 References

Chapter 2 - Mapping the Theory and the Conviction Rate Attractor
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Mapping the Theory
2.2.1 Two Ontologies: The Intensive and the Actual
2.2.2 The Intensive Incorporeals
2.2.3 A New Understanding of Sense
2.2.4 The Plane of Composition
2.2.5 Complex Systems and Assemblages
2.2.6 Self-Organisation and Emergence
2.2.7 Phase-Space or High Dimensional Manifolds
2.2.8 Deleuze and Guattari''s Affective Assemblage Theory
2.2.9 Conceptualising the Courtroom as an Affective Assemblage
2.3 Conviction Rates: A Primary Attractor2.4 Conclusion
2.5 References

Chapter 3 - Courtroom Expressions: The Intermingling of the Semiotic and Material Regimes
3.1 Introduction
3.2 The Legal Semiotic Regime
3.2.1 Consent Definition: s.74
3.2.2 Mens Rea: Reasonable Belief in Consent
3.2.3 Evidential and Conclusive Presumptions: s.75 and s.76
3.2.4 Legislation and Conviction Rates
3.3 The Affectual Force of the ''Mistaken Assumptions'' Directions
3.3.1 Defence Counsel, Myths and Reterritorialization
3.4 Intensive Sense: Policies, Practice and Experience
3.5 Conclusion
3.6 References

Chapter 4 - Courtroom Performances: Drama, but not Representational Drama
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Courtroom Tactics, Techniques and Territories
4.3 Embodied Courtroom Performances4.4 Marshalling Affects: Performing Victimhood
4.5 Changing Cross-Examination Techniques?
4.6 Compelling Performances: Lines of Flight
4.7 Conclusion
4.8 References

Chapter 5 - Deleuze''s Materialist Philosophy of Affect and Sense
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Deleuze''s Materialist Philosophy of the Social Field
5.3 Deleuze''s Materialism: The Actual and Intensive; Corporeals and Incorporeals
5.4 Exploring the Intensive Register Further
5.4.1 Understanding the Intensive Movement of Matter and Becomings
5.5 Exploring the Intensive Incorporeals5.5.1 Intensive Sensation and Percept
5.5.2 Intensive Bodies
5.5.3 Affect-Events
5.5.4 Affective Atmospheres
5.6 The Logic of Sense: Affect and Events in Language
5.7 Intensive Field as a Problem Field
5.8 Planes of Composition and Organisation
5.8.1 Plane-ing
5.9 Conclusion
5.10 References

Chapter 6 - Complexity Theory, Deleuze and Guattari''s Affective Assemblage Theory and the Courtroom as Affective Assemblage
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Complexity Science and Complex Systems
6.2.1 Discovering the Incorporeals
6.2.2 Complexity Science
6.3 Complexity Theory and Complex Social Systems
6.4 Deleuze and Guattari''s Affective Assemblage Theory
6.4.1 Social Assemblages
6.4.2 Semiotic and Material Regimes
6.4.3 Territorialisation, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation
6.4.4 Transversal Consistencies of Soc