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Defending Battered Women on Trial
Author | : Elizabeth A. Sheehy |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780774826532 |
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In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the trials of eleven battered women, ten of whom killed their partners, in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Drawing extensively on trial transcripts and a rich expanse of interdisciplinary sources, the author looks at the evidence produced at trial and at how self-defence was argued. By illuminating these cases, this book uncovers the practical and legal dilemmas faced by battered women on trial for murder.
Woman on Trial
Author | : Lawrencia Bembenek |
Publsiher | : HarperPrism |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Convicts |
ISBN | : 0061006009 |
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Lawerencia Bembeck is charged and convicted of murder. But she claims she is innocent -- framed.
Putting Trials on Trial
Author | : Elaine Craig |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-02-16 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780773553019 |
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Over the past few years, public attention focused on the Jian Ghomeshi trial, the failings of Judge Greg Lenehan in the Halifax taxi driver case, and the judicial disciplinary proceedings against former Justice Robin Camp have placed the sexual assault trial process under significant scrutiny. 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.
Trial by Woman
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Author | : Courtney Rowley,Theresa Bowen Hatch |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1941007813 |
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Defending Battered Women on Trial
Author | : Elizabeth A. Sheehy |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780774826549 |
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In the landmark Lavallee decision of 1990, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that evidence of "battered woman syndrome" was admissible in establishing self-defence for women accused of killing their abusive partners. This book looks at the trials of eleven battered women, ten of whom killed their partners, in the fifteen years since Lavallee. Drawing extensively on trial transcripts and a rich expanse of interdisciplinary sources, the author looks at the evidence produced at trial and at how self-defence was argued. By illuminating these cases, this book uncovers the practical and legal dilemmas faced by battered women on trial for murder.
Modern Women on Trial
Author | : Lucy Bland |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0719082641 |
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Modern Women on Trial looks at several sensational trials involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918–24. The trials, all with young female defendants, were presented in the media as morality tales, warning of the dangers of sensation-seeking and sexual transgression. The book scrutinises the trials and their coverage in the press to identify concerns about modern femininity. The flapper later became closely associated with the 'roaring' 1920s, but in the period immediately after the Great War she represented not only newness and hedonism, but also a frightening, uncertain future. This figure of the modern woman was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race, and national identity. This accessible, extensively researched book will be of interest to all those interested in social, cultural or gender history.
Framing Female Lawyers
Author | : Cynthia Lucia |
Publsiher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780292778245 |
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As real women increasingly entered the professions from the 1970s onward, their cinematic counterparts followed suit. Women lawyers, in particular, were the protagonists of many Hollywood films of the Reagan-Bush era, serving as a kind of shorthand reference any time a script needed a powerful career woman. Yet a close viewing of these films reveals contradictions and anxieties that belie the films' apparent acceptance of women's professional roles. In film after film, the woman lawyer herself effectively ends up "on trial" for violating norms of femininity and patriarchal authority. In this book, Cynthia Lucia offers a sustained analysis of women lawyer films as a genre and as a site where other genres including film noir, maternal melodrama, thrillers, action romance, and romantic comedy intersect. She traces Hollywood representations of female lawyers through close readings of films from the 1949 Adam's Rib through films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Jagged Edge, The Accused, and The Client, among others. She also examines several key male lawyer films and two independent films, Lizzie Borden's Love Crimes and Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lucia convincingly demonstrates that making movies about women lawyers and the law provides unusually fertile ground for exploring patriarchy in crisis. This, she argues, is the cultural stimulus that prompts filmmakers to create stories about powerful women that simultaneously question and undermine women's right to wield authority.
Envy Poison and Death
Author | : Esther Eidinow |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199562602 |
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This volume explores three trials conducted in Athens in the fourth century BCE; the defendants were all women charged with undertaking ritual activities, but much of the evidence remains a mystery. The author reveals how these trials provide a vivid glimpse of the socio-political environment of Athens during the early-mid fourth century BCE.