Rape and the Criminal Trial: Reconceptualising the Courtroom as an Affective Assemblage

Chapter 1 - Introduction1.1 Reconceptualising the Courtroom1.2 Engaging with the Book: Affective and Non-Representational Approaches1.3 New Materialism and Affect Theory1.4 Empirical and Theoretical Methodologies1.4.1 Methodology one: Exploring Affects through Interviews with Barristers1.4.2 Methodology Two: Problem Space, Problematics and Phase Space1.5 Setting the Scene: Criminal Justice Reponses to Rape1.5.1 Substantive Law: Sexual Offences Act 20031.5.2 'Mistake Assumptions' Judicial Directions1.5.3 Special Measures1.6 Conclusion1.7 References
Chapter 2 - Mapping the Theory and the Conviction Rate Attractor2.1 Introduction2.2 Mapping the Theory2.2.1 Two Ontologies: The Intensive and the Actual2.2.2 The Intensive Incorporeals2.2.3 A New Understanding of Sense2.2.4 The Plane of Composition2.2.5 Complex Systems and Assemblages2.2.6 Self-Organisation and Emergence 2.2.7 Phase-Space or High Dimensional Manifolds2.2.8 Deleuze and Guattari's Affective Assemblage Theory2.2.9 Conceptualising the Courtroom as an Affective Assemblage2.3 Conviction Rates: A Primary Attractor2.4 Conclusion2.5 References
Chapter 3 - Courtroom Expressions: The Intermingling of the Semiotic and Material Regimes3.1 Introduction3.2 The Legal Semiotic Regime3.2.1 Consent Definition: s.743.2.2 Mens Rea: Reasonable Belief in Consent3.2.3 Evidential and Conclusive Presumptions: s.75 and s.763.2.4 Legislation and Conviction Rates3.3 The Affectual Force of the 'Mistaken Assumptions' Directions3.3.1 Defence Counsel, Myths and Reterritorialization3.4 Intensive Sense: Policies, Practice and Experience3.5 Conclusion3.6 References
Chapter 4 - Courtroom Performances: Drama, but not Representational Drama4.1 Introduction4.2 Courtroom Tactics, Techniques and Territories4.3 Embodied Courtroom Performances4.4 Marshalling Affects: Performing Victimhood4.5 Changing Cross-Examination Techniques?4.6 Compelling Performances: Lines of Flight4.7 Conclusion4.8 References
Chapter 5 - Deleuze's Materialist Philosophy of Affect and Sense5.1 Introduction5.2 Deleuze's Materialist Philosophy of the Social Field5.3 Deleuze's Materialism: The Actual and Intensive; Corporeals and Incorporeals5.4 Exploring the Intensive Register Further5.4.1 Understanding the Intensive Movement of Matter and Becomings5.5 Exploring the Intensive Incorporeals5.5.1 Intensive Sensation and Percept5.5.2 Intensive Bodies5.5.3 Affect-Events5.5.4 Affective Atmospheres5.6 The Logic of Sense: Affect and Events in Language5.7 Intensive Field as a Problem Field5.8 Planes of Composition and Organisation5.8.1 Plane-ing5.9 Conclusion5.10 References
Chapter 6 - Complexity Theory, Deleuze and Guattari's Affective Assemblage Theory and the Courtroom as Affective Assemblage6.1 Introduction6.2 Complexity Science and Complex Systems6.2.1 Discovering the Incorporeals6.2.2 Complexity Science6.3 Complexity Theory and Complex Social Systems6.4 Deleuze and Guattari's Affective Assemblage Theory6.4.1 Social Assemblages6.4.2 Semiotic and Material Regimes6.4.3 Territorialisation, Deterritorialisation and Reterritorialisation6.4.4 Transversal Consistencies of Social Assemblages6.4.5 Social Assemblages and Social Regimes6.4.6 The Field of Affective Social Assemblages6.5 Conclusion: The Courtroom as an Affective Assemblage6.7 References
Chapter 7 - Conclusion: Techniques of Affect and Adaptive Management7.1 Techniques of Affect: Participating in the Intensive7.1.1 Techniques of Affect as Artistic, Political and Ethical Practices7.2 Adaptive Management: Managing and Regulating Complex Systems7.2 References