Intimacy and Responsibility
Subtitle: The Criminalisation of HIV Transmission
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge Cavendish; Routledge-Cavendish
Published: January 31, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781904385714
Subjects: English law: criminal law; Law; Legal Reference / Law Profession; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Law / General; Criminal Law - General; AIDS (Disease); Great Britain; HIV-positive persons; Law and legislation; Legal status, laws, etc.; Sexually transmitted diseases; Transmission
Description: "In what circumstances, and on what basis, should those who transmit serious disease to their sexual partners be criminalised? In this book Matthew Weait provides a critical analysis of the response of the English criminal courts to those who have been convicted of transmitting HIV during sex. He argues that the cases provide us with an important insight into the way in which the criminal constructs the concepts of harm, risk, causation, blame and responsibility, and - more generally - how it is impossible to understand the law in this area without also engaging with the socio-cultural dimensions of HIV/AIDS and sexuality."--BOOK JACKET.