Carnal crimes : sexual assault law in Canada, 1900-1975 / Constance Backhouse.

Toronto : Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by Irwin Law, 2008.

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Sex crimes -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Rape -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Rape -- Canada -- Case studies.

Sex crimes -- Canada -- Case studies.

Sex discrimination against women -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.

Women -- Canada -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History -- 20th century.

1. Introduction

2. Don't you bully me... Justice I want if there is justice to be hand : the rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907

3. On pensait que la fille etait bonne a rien : Fiola, 1917

4. The prosecution of Henry Kissel in the roaring twenties in Halifax

5. Sexual battery : gynecological treatment in the Mercer Reformatory, 1939-40

6. Sexual assault and disability : Saskatchewan, 1942

7. Child witnesses - by psychological definition... A disservice to the true end of justice : Souliere, 1951-52

8. Canada's first capital L lesbian sexual assault : Yellowknife, 1955

9. Sordid but understandable under the circumstances : Kohnke, Croft, and Wilson, 1967

10. Imprisonment would be of no assistance to the accused : Angione, 1974

11. Conclusion.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781552211786

xi, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm