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Autore: | Elizabeth A. Sheehy |
Titolo: | Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism / / Elizabeth A. Sheehy, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, 2012 |
Ottawa : , : University of Ottawa Press, , 2012 | |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (819 pages) : illustrations (some colour), portraits |
Disciplina: | 364.1530971 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato: | rape |
law | |
sexual assault | |
violence | |
women | |
Altri autori: | SheehyElizabeth A |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 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. | |
Sommario/riassunto: | A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sexual Assault in Canada |
ISBN: | 0-7766-2617-5 |
1-283-89187-5 | |
0-7766-1977-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910137930003321 |
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