LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Assault Causing Bodily Harm, Aggravated Sexual Assault, Sexual Assault
11 Apr 2017
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Feminist played an important role in protecting rights for victimless crimes (as explained last week) Domestic violence (physical and sexual violence) o. In the 1970"s it was to the public"s attention. People wanted to educate how it is wrong, resorting to violence is wrong. They wanted to put emphasis on legal reforms and criminal sanctions. The charter was made in the 80"s o. The losses of feminist interest group, parliament would attempt to trump judicial rules to end violence o o. Feminist groups believed that the domestic violence came from patriarchy in canada. The government look at criminal law, rather than seeing why this behaviour happened. Dealing with child care, equity in the workplace. The government didn"t use this when dealing with the issue of domestic violence. Instead they only changed the law - which doesn"t do much, it"s a cheaper way because changing police powers costs money, legal reforms are cheaper o.
