LS300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Victim Blaming, Peacekeeping, Legal Awareness

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LS300
• Professor: Rashmee Singh

Document Summary

Recap from last week: feminism, law, and social change. Key question: the mandatory charge policy is an intervention built on the logic of formal equality. How does formal equality in this context harm women, according to martin and. Formal equality logic decontextualized blanket one size fits all approach of domestic violence. Desire to remove victim discretion and police discretion due to the history of police neglect this led to the argument of we need to create domestic violence just like any other crime. Internationally: (cid:862)west(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)east(cid:863) (cid:396)elatio(cid:374)s; (cid:862)no(cid:396)th(cid:863) & (cid:862) outh(cid:863) Idea that we need to give people in the west money, encouragement, to provide assistance. Draws attention to the fact that when you are learning about another country, there is a particular tools and assumptions how a lot of research has been ge(cid:374)e(cid:396)ated (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:862)othe(cid:396)(cid:863) Post-colonial theorist want to unravel these assumptions.