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Confronting Sexual Assault : A Decade of Legal and Social Change / Julian Roberts, Renata Mohr.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex crimes--Canada.
- Sex crimes.
- Rape--Canada.
- Rape.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 355 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- The issue of criminal sexual aggression can be understood and dealt with effectively only with the help of an integrated approach which includes both sociological and legal perspectives.
- Contents:
- Sexual assault in Canada : recent developments / Renate M. Mohr and Julian V. Roberts
- The struggle to redefine rape in the early 1980s / Maria Łoś
- Changing definitions of sexual assault : an analysis of police statistics / Julian V. Roberts and Michelle G. Grossman
- The processing of child sexual abuse cases / Rita Gunn and Rick Linden
- Effects of reform legislation on the processing of sexual assault cases / Scott Clark and Dorothy Hepworth
- The judicial construction of sexual assault offences / Christine Boyle
- Sexual assault sentencing : leaving justice to individual conscience / Renate M. Mohr
- Sexual assault of Inuit females : a comment on 'cultural bias' / Teressa Nahanee
- Compensation for women who have been raped / Elizabeth A. Sheehy
- Sexual assault trials and the protection of 'bad girls' : the battle between the courts and parliament / Adelyn L. Bowland
- Seaboyer and Gayme. A study in equality / Diana Majury
- Redefining reformism : the consultations that shaped bill C-49 / Sheila McIntyre.
- Sexual assault : future research priorities / Julian V. Roberts and Renate M. Mohr
- Sexual assault in Canada : a bibliography (1977-1991) / Julian V. Roberts and Michelle G. Grossman.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-350) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4875-7514-9
- OCLC:
- 1099529076
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