Brock Turner’s mugshot is now next to a definition of rape in a law textbook (Picture: Hannah Kendall Shuman/Facebook)

Brock Turner hit the headlines for sexually assaulting a fellow student at a party at Stanford University and with assault with the intent to commit rape   – a crime for which he only served three months of a six-month sentence.

That was only last year but his case has remained very much in the public consciousness since, and as such he has appeared next to the definition of rape in law textbook.

His mugshot was noticed by Washington State University student Hannah Kendall Shuman who recently shared it on her Facebook.

Her picture, which is from the second edition of the Introduction to Criminal Justice: Systems, Diversity, and Change, show Turner’s image under the heading of rape.

Turner, 21, was found guilty by a unanimous jury of sexually penetrating an intoxicated and unconscious person with a foreign object and assault with intent to rape on the elite university campus.

Turner served three months in jail last year (Picture: AP)
Turner features in the second edition of the law test book

Although he is included under the heading of rape in the book, Californian state law defines rape as penetration by the penis.

Metro.co.uk approached the book’s co-author Callie Rennison about the inclusion, she has so far failed to comment but spoke about her approach to the book last November when she received the.Bonnie S. Fisher Victimology Career Award.

She said: ‘Existing criminal justice books have focused on three elements: cops, courts and corrections.

‘They speak little about victims, reflecting how they have effectively been in the shadows of our criminal justice system. In our book, victims are front and center with equal emphasis as cops, courts and corrections. This is the way it should be.’

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