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"How the Criminal Justice System Responds to Sexual Assault Survivors: The Slippage between 'Responsibilization' and 'Blaming the Victim'.".(WOMEN AND THE LAW/FEMME ET DROIT)(Brief article)
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September 22, 2007 |
Comack, Elizabeth; Peter, Tracey |
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While feminist scholars have identified the factors within law that serve to disqualify claims of sexual assault, the authors maintain that a fuller appreciation of how the criminal justice system responds to sexual assault survivors requires locating this issue in its broader socio-political context. By focusing on one survivor's story their aim is to reveal how a neo-"law and order" approach and a neo-liberal rationality premised on "responsibilization" play out in sexual assault cases. In the ...
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