FEM 3104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Rape Myth, Victim Blaming, Adversarial System
18 Nov 2016
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Week 7 - sexual assault and ipv: women"s experiences with state agents. 1982: rape is divided into 3 classifications - sexual assault, sexual assault with a weapon and aggravated assault. Spouses and male victims are included and recognized (cid:883)99(cid:884): new laws (cid:498)rape shield laws(cid:499) - limited cross examination of the victim and references to the victims sexual history as evidence. Subsection 276: makes victims sexual history inadmissible in court. Section 273. 2: limits defence of a mistaken belief in consent and it is not a defence in a number of situations: When it arose from recklessness or wilful blindness. Or if the accused did not take reasonable steps to ascertain if the person was consenting so people use whatever they can use against their opponents. Rape is impossible: anatomically women cannot be forced into having sex. Reasonable steps: if the accused claims the person consented they have to provide some proof of that consent.
