| Description |
1 online resource (819 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
Canada |
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sexual assault law |
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sexual assault legal practice |
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women's activism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| In |
Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR |
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OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) OAPEN |
| Subject |
Doe, Jane
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| SUBJECT |
Doe, Jane
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| Subject |
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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Canada.
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Gender and the law.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Gender studies: women.
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Jurisprudence and general issues.
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Law and society.
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Law.
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North America.
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Social groups.
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Society and culture: general.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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The Americas.
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LAW -- Gender & the Law.
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Feminism
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Rape
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Sex crimes
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Sex crimes -- Investigation
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Sexual abuse victims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Women -- Crimes against
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Canada
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Electronic books
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decisions (judicial records)
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Court decisions and opinions
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Court decisions and opinions.
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Recueils de jurisprudence et d'opinions.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Sheehy, Elizabeth A
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EBOUND Canada, manufacturer
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| ISBN |
9780776619774 |
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0776619772 |
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9780776626178 |
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0776626175 |
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