Orna Alyagon Darr is a Senior Lecturer at the law schools of Sapir Academic College and Ono Academic College. She is the author of Marks of an Absolute Witch: Evidentiary Dilemmas in Early Modern England (2011). Her work explores evidence law, criminal law and criminal procedure in their cultural, social and historical context, and her articles have been published in leading academic journals such as Law and History Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Continuity and Change and Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Legal background 2. Cultural narratives underlying proof: male-to-male offences 3. Plausibility of children's testimonies: narrator's identity 4. Plausibility and ethnicity: audience-narrator nexus 5. Plausible emotions 6. Corroboration: plausibility embedded in evidentiary standards 7. Implausible counter-narratives Conclusion List of legal cases Appendix: relevant criminal legislation Bibliography Index.
