Dr Kim Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in Law in the Department of Legal Studies at Nottingham Trent University, and Joint Director of SOLON (Interdisciplinary Studies in Bad Behaviour and Socially Visible Crime). Previously she served as a Police Sergeant with the Nottinghamshire Constabulary and was also a Police Training Instructor delivery specialist courses on sexual offences.Anne Davies is a Principal Lecturer in Law in the Department of Academic Legal Studies at Nottingham Trent University. She is also a qualified solicitor.Professor Michael Gunn in Head of the Department of Academic Legal Studies and an Associate Dean at Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University. He is also a co-author of Blackstone's Criminal Practice, and numerous other texts including a guide to the law in relation to sexual relationships and people with learning disabilities.

... an authoritative text book on this major revision of the law relating to sex offences ... The authors have done an excellent and extremely brave job in offering comment on so many aspects of this major consolidating statute.

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