Sexual Assault in Canada

Law, Legal Practice and Womenas Activism
Herausgeber: Sheehy, Elizabeth A

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Produktbeschreibung

A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
• Seitenzahl: 836
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1361g
• ISBN-13: 9780776630441
• ISBN-10: 077663044X
• Artikelnr.: 34565813

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth A. Sheehy is full professor of the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. Her research focuses on the legal responses to male violence against women, especially sexual assault, and battered women who kill.  In addition to many articles, position papers, and book chapters on criminal law issues affecting women and racialized persons, she has edited or co-edited several collections, including a special double issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Law and Policy (2001), Adding Feminism to Law: The Contributions of Claire L'Heureux-Dubé (Irwin Law, 2004), and Calling for Change: Women, Law and the Legal Profession (University of Ottawa Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Still Punished for Being Female
-- Claire L'Heureux-Dubé
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