Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession

Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession - Paperback

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Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession - Paperback

Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession - Paperback

by Elaine Craig
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Book Overview

by Elaine Craig (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Elaine Craig is associate professor in the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.

Number of Pages: 320
Dimensions: 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: January 15, 2021
ISBN9780228006534
Author Elaine Craig
PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
GenreEducation
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages320
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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