| Description |
1 online resource (819 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword. Still punished for being female / Claire L'Heureux-Dube -- Introduction / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- part 1. The victories of Jane Doe / Elizabeth A. Sheehy Appendix A. Amended statement of claim : Jane Doe versus Board of Commissioners of Police -- 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 / Tracey Lindberg, Priscilla Campeau, and Maria Campbell -- 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 / A. Blair Crew -- Appendix B. Reported sexual assaults and criminal offences and unfounding rates reported by Ontario police forces, 2003-2007 -- 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. |
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part 2. 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 : renewing legal 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. |
| Summary |
A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada. |
| Language |
English. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Doe, Jane.
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Sexual abuse victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Canada.
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Women -- Crimes against -- Canada.
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Sex crimes -- Canada.
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Rape -- Canada.
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Sex crimes -- Investigation -- Canada.
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Feminism -- Canada.
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. (OCoLC)fst00883246
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Rape. (OCoLC)fst01089970
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Sex crimes. (OCoLC)fst01114275
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Sex crimes -- Investigation.
(OCoLC)fst01114280
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Sexual abuse victims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
(OCoLC)fst01114786
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Women -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst01176618
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Canada. (OCoLC)fst01204310
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| Genre/Form |
Court decisions and opinions. (OCoLC)fst01774257
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Electronic books.
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Court decisions and opinions.
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| Added Author |
Sheehy, Elizabeth A.
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eBOUND Canada, manufacturer.
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Scholars Portal, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sexual assault in Canada. Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, ©2012 9780776630441 (OCoLC)780360661 |
| ISBN |
9780776619774 (electronic bk.) |
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0776619772 (electronic bk.) |
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9780776630441 (hc) |
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077663044X |
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9781283891875 |
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1283891875 |
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