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dc.contributor.authorDaly, Kathleen
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T13:23:19Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T13:23:19Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-02-10T01:09:07Z
dc.identifier.issn18337864
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/41892
dc.description.abstractDespite 30 years of significant change to the way the criminal justice system responds to sexual violence, conviction rates have gone down in Australia, Canada, and England and Wales.1 Victim/survivors continue to express dissatisfaction with how the police and courts handle their cases and with their experience of the trial process. Many commentators and researchers recognise that the crux of the problem is cultural beliefs about gender and sexuality, which dilute and undermine the intentions of rape law reform.2 These beliefs affect victims adversely, but at the same time, increased criminalisation and penalisation of offenders is not likely to yield constructive outcomes. This paper reflects on the limits of legal reform in improving outcomes for victim/survivors. Given the extent of reform to procedural, substantive, and evidentiary aspects of sexual assault legal cases, we may have exhausted its potential to change the response to sexual assault. We may need to consider innovative justice responses, which may be part of the legal system or lie beyond it.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherAustralian Institute of Family Studies
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.aifs.gov.au/acssa/pubs/issue/i12/index.html
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto35
dc.relation.ispartofissue12
dc.relation.ispartofjournalACSSA Issues
dc.relation.ispartofvolume2011
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160299
dc.titleConventional and innovative justice responses to sexual violence
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.rights.copyright© 2011 Commonwealth of Australia. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2011
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gro.griffith.authorDaly, Kathleen


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