Böcker av Orna Alyagon Darr

What makes one crime story convincing and another implausible? Evidence law provides only a partial answer. This study explores the meaning of plausibility and the materials from which it is constituted in a particular historical and socio-cultural setting: proving sex offences in Mandate Palestine.

Explores the social foundation of evidence law in a specific historical social and cultural context - the debate concerning the proof of the crime of witchcraft in early modern England. This book presents a picture of a diverse society whose members tried to influence evidentiary techniques to achieve their distinct goals.