Abstract
In 1998, serial rapist Malcolm Rewa stood trial for a total of 45 counts involving 27 women whom he had attacked between 1987 and 1996, with all but two of these attacks occurring within suburbs of Auckland city. His trial lasted three months, at the end of which Rewa was convicted on a majority of counts, mostly for Sexual Violation by Rape, against 25 of the women.
To a man, rape may possibly be considered a myth, or else an insidious lie, dreamt up to entrap him, or both of these; to a woman it is neither myth nor lie, it is a frightening reality.
(Muriel Schulz, quoted in Mills, 1991, p. 207)
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Jordan, J. (2004). Perfect Victims/Perfect Policing? In the Words of the Women. In: The Word of a Woman?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511057_6
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