criminal law Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/tag/criminal-law/ Canadian feminist lawyer and women’s advocate Sun, 30 Jul 2017 15:24:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/pamelacross.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen-Shot-2018-06-18-at-11.27.08-AM.png?fit=32%2C30&ssl=1 criminal law Archives - Pamela Cross https://pamelacross.ca/tag/criminal-law/ 32 32 185852602 The language game of sexual assault https://pamelacross.ca/language-game-sexual-assault/ https://pamelacross.ca/language-game-sexual-assault/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 14:05:51 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=711 It seems that, in the context of sexual assault, the word “unfounded” means very different things to different people. Robyn Doolittle’s unprecedented series in The Globe and Mail earlier this year brought the word into the forefront of many people’s Continue reading The language game of sexual assault→

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]]> https://pamelacross.ca/language-game-sexual-assault/feed/ 0 711 “It really doesn’t matter what I want.” https://pamelacross.ca/really-doesnt-matter-want/ https://pamelacross.ca/really-doesnt-matter-want/#respond Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:07:57 +0000 https://pamelacross.ca/?p=686 Mandi Gray’s comment after Ontario Superior Court Justice Dambrot upheld the appeal of Mustafa Ururyar, who had been found guilty of sexually assaulting her, is a simple yet powerful indictment of the criminal system’s response to sexual violence. She went Continue reading “It really doesn’t matter what I want.”→

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