Guilt Project, The : Rape, Morality and Law - Softcover

Vanessa Place

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590517504 ISBN 13: 9781590517505

Publisher: OTHER PRESS, 2015

Synopsis

Vanessa Place examines the ambiguity of rape law by presenting cases where guilt lies, but lies uneasily, and leads into larger ethical questions of what defines guilt, what is justice and what is considered just punishment. The Guilt ÔThe Guilt ProjectÕ looks at the way the American legal system defines, prosecutes and punishes sex offenders, how this questionable justice has transformed our conception of who is guilty and how they ought to be treated, and how this has come to undo our deeper humanity.

About this title

About the Author

Vanessa Place is a writer and criminal appellate attorney practicing in Los Angeles. She has worked on the appeals of more than a thousand indigent felons, specializing in sex offenders and sexually violent predators. She is the author of Dies: A Sentence, a fifty-thousand-word, one-sentence prose poem; the post-conceptual novel La Medusa; and, in collaboration with appropriation poet Robert Fitterman, Notes on Conceptualisms. Place is co-founder of Les Figues Press, described by critic Terry Castle as "an elegant vessel for experimental American writing of an extraordinarily
assured and ingenious sort."

Edition details

• Publisher: OTHER PRESS
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1590517504
• ISBN 13: 9781590517505
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1