SOC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Crown Attorney, Sexual Assault, Reasonable Doubt
9 Mar 2017
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(cid:862) e(cid:454) was i(cid:374) the ai(cid:396)(cid:863): pernicious myths and other problems with sexual violence prosecutions by karen busby. Justi(cid:272)e de(cid:449)a(cid:396), ma(cid:374)ito(cid:271)a cou(cid:396)t of quee(cid:374)(cid:859)s be(cid:374)(cid:272)h (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:272)ted ke(cid:374)(cid:374)eth hodes of sexually assaulting c. p. , an. Sexual violence as a pervasive, systemic method of creating and sustaining male dominance over women, which only exacerbates other manifestations of social inequality. Sexual attacks still viewed by some as private, individual matters stemming from unfortunate but isolated encounters with strangers, or as the natural, but uncontrollable, and therefore non- culpable, responses of men to the seductive powers of loose women. Judicial pronouncements have a special power for lawyers (esp. higher courts) If a judge says something is true, then it is. 15-year-old assaulted by four young men at a party; photographs spread throughout community, police told family no charges would be laid (cid:862)he said, she said(cid:863), a(cid:374)d afte(cid:396) a year of enduring investigations she committed suicide.
