Jameelah Omar

Gebundenes Buch

The Structural Exclusion of Rape Complainants in South Africa's Criminal Justice System

Justice through Participation

Beschreibung

Exploring the intricate dynamics surrounding rape complainants within the South African criminal justice system, this book proposes reforms in the approach to participation of victims with the aim of mitigating the structural barriers imposed by the adversarial process.

Autor

Jameelah Omar is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). She has an LLB, LLM, and PhD in Law from UCT. Omar joined UCT as a Lecturer in 2015. Her research and teaching centres on Criminal Justice, specifically in the areas of Sexual Offences, Criminal Procedure and doctrinal Criminal Law. She also convenes and facilitates the UCT Law Community Service programme, which requires students to perform legally oriented volunteer work as a degree requirement. Omar's doctoral work focused on the rights of rape complainants within the structure of South Africa's adversarial legal system. She is an associate member of the Centre for Law and Society at UCT where she heads the Sexual Violence programme, and she is a Trustee on the Board for the Women's Legal Centre Trust. She has appeared as an expert witness in court cases as an expert on sexual violence. Prior to joining UCT, she was an attorney at the Centre of Legal Studies (CALS) based at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits).

Produktdetails

• Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781041011460
• ISBN-10: 1041011466
• Artikelnr.: 74065246