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Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still find themselves the victims of what has been called a ""second rape"" by doctors, lawyers, judges, police, and administrators that process them. This book takes a critical look at the organizations and officials that process rape victims to see how the structure of their respective organizations often prevent them from providing responsive care.

Rape victims --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Services for.

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Less than one percent of the sexual assaults that occur each year in Canada result in legal sanction for those who commit these offences. Survivors often distrust and fear the criminal justice process, and as a result, over ninety percent of sexual assaults go unreported. Unfortunately, their fears are well founded.In this thorough evaluation of the legal culture and courtroom practices prevalent in sexual assault prosecutions, Elaine Craig provides an even-handed account of the ways in which the legal profession unnecessarily - and sometimes unlawfully - contributes to the trauma and re-victimization experienced by those who testify as sexual assault complainants. Gathering conclusive evidence from interviews with experienced lawyers across Canada, reported case law, lawyer memoirs, recent trial transcripts, and defence lawyers' public statements and commercial advertisements, Putting Trials on Trial demonstrates that - despite prominent contestations - complainants are regularly subjected to abusive, humiliating, and discriminatory treatment when they turn to the law to respond to sexual violations.In pursuit of trial practices that are less harmful to sexual assault complainants as well as survivors of sexual violence more broadly, Putting Trials on Trial makes serious, substantiated, and necessary claims about the ethical and cultural failures of the Canadian legal profession.

Rape victims. --- Rape --- Trials (Rape) --- Criminal law --- Violence (Law) --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Law and legislation.

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Law --- Criminology. Victimology --- Sociology of social care --- Public administration --- Netherlands --- Rape victims --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Services for --- Assistance --- Police --- Rape --- Legislation --- Brochures

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Rape law reform has long been hailed as one of the most successful projects of second-wave feminism. Yet forty years after the anti-rape movement emerged, legal and medical institutions continue to resist implementing reforms intended to provide more just and compassionate legal and medical responses to victims of sexual violence. In Up Against a Wall, Rose Corrigan draws on interviews with over 150 local rape care advocates in communities across the United States to explore how and why mainstream systems continue to resist feminist reforms.In a series of richly detailed case studies, the book weaves together scholarship on law and social movements, feminist theory, policy formation and implementation, and criminal justice to show how the innovative legal strategies employed by anti-rape advocates actually undermined some of their central claims. But even as its more radical elements were thwarted, pieces of the rape law reform project were seized upon by conservative policy-makers and used to justify new initiatives that often prioritize the interests and rights of criminal justice actors or medical providers over the needs of victims.

LAW / Criminal Law / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. --- LAW / Gender & the Law. --- Feminist theory --- Anti-rape movement --- Law reform --- Rape victims --- Rape --- Anti-rape campaign --- Feminism --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Prevention

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« Mes tympans se sont mis à siffler, mon cerveau à bouillir, je ne parvenais plus à penser qu’à une seule chose, qui ne me servait strictement à rien à cet instant. Je me suis souvenue de ce que m’avait dit le commissaire de police qui recueillait ma plainte. Il m’avait posé une question qui m’avait plongée dans la confusion la plus grande. J’avais répondu – on répond toujours à un commissaire – quelque chose que je dirai peut-être un jour. Il m’avait dit alors que je devais le taire, que cela resterait entre lui et moi, car si je le disais, cela me desservirait au tribunal.Allais-je donc passer au tribunal ?Je ne comprenais pas.Le criminel c’était l’autre, non ?Ou moi ? »D’un monologue guidé par l’étrange beauté d’un rêve, émerge le souvenir de faits qui eurent lieu sans autre témoin que l’air. L’air conserve la mémoire de toutes les histoires que les humains se racontent depuis la nuit des temps. Le viol est l’une des plus anciennes. Et des plus actuelles.

Authors, Belgian --- Écrivains belges --- Rape victims --- Victimes de viol --- Biography. --- Lamarche, Caroline. --- Female rape victims --- Sexual abuse victims --- Belgian authors --- Lamarš, Karolin --- Ламарш, Каролин --- Écrivains belges --- French literature (outside France) --- Lamarche, Caroline --- Authors, Belgian - 20th century - Biography --- Authors, Belgian - 21st century - Biography --- Rape victims - Belgium - Biography --- Authors, Belgian. --- Erzählung. --- Französisch. --- Rape victims. --- 1900-2099. --- Belgium.