Confronting Sexual Assault : : A Decade of Legal and Social Change / / ed. by Julian Roberts, Renata Mohr.
In the decade since the passage of rape reform legislation in 1983, Canada has witnessed an extraordinary growth in public concern about the pervasive and painful issue of sexual assault. Despite this legislation, society continues to pay the price of coercive sexuality. The essays in this volume ad...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1994 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1. Sexual Assault in Canada: Recent Developments
- 2. The Struggle to Redefine Rape in the Early 1980s
- 3. Changing Definitions of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Police Statistics
- 4. The Processing of Child Sexual Abuse Cases
- 5. Effects of Reform Legislation on the Processing of Sexual Assault Cases
- 6. The Judicial Construction of Sexual Assault Offences
- 7. Sexual Assault Sentencing: Leaving Justice to Individual Conscience
- 8. Sexual Assault of Inuit Females: A Comment on 'Cultural Bias'
- 9. Compensation for Women Who Have Been Raped
- 10. Sexual Assault Trials and the Protection of 'Bad Girls': The Battle between the Courts and Parliament
- 11. Seaboyer and Gayme: A Study InEquality
- 12. Redefining Reformism: The Consultations That Shaped Bill C-49
- 13. Sexual Assault: Future Research Priorities
- Appendix A. Sexual Assault in Canada: A Bibliography ( 1977-1991)
- Appendix B. Legal Text of 'Rape Shield' Legislation C-49