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UNINA9910137930003321 |
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Autore |
Elizabeth A. Sheehy |
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Titolo |
Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism / / Elizabeth A. Sheehy, editor |
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Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2012 |
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Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2012 |
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©2012 |
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0-7766-2617-5 |
1-283-89187-5 |
0-7766-1977-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (819 pages) : illustrations (some colour), portraits |
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Collana |
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Open Access e-Books |
Knowledge Unlatched |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Feminism - Canada |
Sex crimes - Investigation - Canada |
Rape - Canada |
Sex crimes - Canada |
Women - Crimes against - Canada |
Criminal justice, Administration of - Canada |
Sexual abuse victims - Legal status, laws, etc - Canada |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword: Still Punished for Being Female / Claire L'Heureux-Dube -- Introduction / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- PART I. The Victories of Jane Doe / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- Jane Doe versus Toronto Commissioners of Police: A View from the Bar / Sean Dewart -- New Zealand's Jane Doe / Julia Tolmie -- Hockey Night in Canada / Laura Robinson -- Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada / Maria Campbell, Priscilla Campeau, and Tracey Lindberg -- Legal Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat and Brown / Lucinda Vandervort -- The Supreme Court of Canada's Betrayal of Residential School Survivors: Ignorance is |
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No Excuse / Sheila McIntyre -- Sexual Assault and Disabled Women Ten Years after Jane Doe / Fran Odette -- Police Investigation of Sexual Assault Complaints: How Far Have We Come Since Jane Doe? / Teresa DuBois -- Striking Back: The Viability of a Civil Action Against the Police for the "Wrongful Unfounding" of Reported Rapes / Blair Crew -- Third-Wave Anti-rape Activism on Neoliberal Terrain: The Garneau Sisterhood / Lise Gotell -- Sisterhood Will Get Ya: Anti-rape Activism and the Criminal Justice System / Meagan Johnston -- Where Has All the Anger Gone? / Diana Yaros -- Vitreous Fragility: Re-imagining Women through Art / Shary Boyle -- The Jane Doe Coffee Table Book about Rape: Reflections on Rebellious Writing and Teaching / Gillian Calder and Rebecca Johnson -- |
PART II. Who Benefits From the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit? / Jane Doe -- Perpetuating - and Resisting - Rape Myths in Trial Discourse / Susan Ehrlich -- Questioning "Expert" Knowledges / Sunny Marriner -- Zero Tolerance Some of the Time? Doctors and Sexual Abuse in Ontario / Sanda Rodgers -- Judges and the Reasonable Steps Requirement: The Judicial Stance on Perpetration Against Unconscious Women / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- An Equality-Oriented Approach to the Admissibility of Similar Fact Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions / David M. Tanovich -- Raising the Age of Sexual Consent: The Renewing of Legalistic Moralism? / Julie Desrosiers -- What's in a Face? Demeanour Evidence in the Sexual Assault Context / Natasha Bakht -- Limits of a Criminal Justice Response: Trends in Police and Court Processing of Sexual Assault / Holly Johnson -- HIV Exposure as Assault: Progressive Development or Misplaced Focus? / Alison Symington -- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The False Promise of Victim Impact Statements / Rakhi Ruparelia -- Confronting Restorative Justice in Neo-Liberal Times: Legal and Rape Narratives in Conditional Sentencing / Gillian Balfour and Janice Du Mont -- A Feminist Remedy for Sexual Assault: A Quest for Answers / Constance Backhouse --Afterword / Jane Doe. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada. |
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