{"id":6825,"date":"2020-05-27T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpol.qub.ac.uk\/?p=6825"},"modified":"2020-05-27T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:48:51","slug":"sexual-consent-ni-social-legal-dimensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/qpol\/sexual-consent-ni-social-legal-dimensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Consent in Northern Ireland: The Social and Legal Dimensions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Northern Ireland (NI) consent is a key concept in the law on sexual offences. Despite its centrality to determining the existence of a criminal offence, it is a concept that is subject to different and competing interpretations. This becomes even more complicated when the guilt or innocence of a defendant rests not only upon whether there was consent or not but whether the defendant\u2019s belief in consent was reasonably held.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing from a Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA) funded project undertaken by Dr Dowds, which<br>\nincluded semi-structured interviews with individuals working in the sexual violence sector in NI, this paper situates NI\u2019s approach to sexual consent within broader trends towards \u2018affirmative models of consent\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To read or download this Briefing Paper,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/qpol.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Sexual-Consent-in-NI-The-Social-and-Legal-Dimensions-Policy-Paper-6.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">please click here.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of two Queen&#8217;s Policy Engagement Briefing Papers by Dr Eithne Dowds. 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