Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism /
A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada.
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Ottawa :
University of Ottawa Press,
2012.
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Table of 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.
- 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.