Telling it Like it isn’t: Obscuring Perpetrator Responsibility for Violent Crime

By Linda Coates, A. Wade. 2004

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Langauge and Violence: Analysis of Four Discursive Operations (2007, background): “…legal judgments and media articles, we found sexualized violence and spousal assaults were frequently represented as mutual even though Canadian law defines sexual assault as inherently violent (Bavelas and Coates 2001; Coates 2004; Coates et al. 1994; Coates and Wade 2004; West and Coates 2004).”
“If a girl doesn't say ‘no’…”: young men, rape and claims of ‘insufficient knowledge’ (2008, background): “A primary task, then, is to re-conceptualize the miscommunication model within existing programmes, not as a basis for rape prevention strategies but as one of the very rape myths that may serve, in practice, to promote, condone and exculpate coercive sexual behaviour (cf. Coates & Wade, 2004).”
‘You Couldn't Say “No”, Could You?’: Young Men's Understandings of Sexual Refusal (2006, background): “Courtroom transcripts may provide a more ‘naturalistic’ data source; however, because of the heightened issue of accountability, a straight telling of the ‘facts’ can even less readily be assumed (Coates and Wade, 2004).”