(DOWNLOAD) "Hearing the Sexual Assault Complaints of Women with Mental Disabilities: Consent, Capacity, And Mistaken Belief." by McGill Law Journal # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Hearing the Sexual Assault Complaints of Women with Mental Disabilities: Consent, Capacity, And Mistaken Belief.
- Author : McGill Law Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 390 KB
Description
Women with mental disabilities experience high rates of sexual assault. The authors trace the history of the criminal law's treatment of cases involving such acts in order to evaluate whether the substantive law of sexual assault is meeting the needs of this group of women. In particular, the authors focus on the legal issues of consent, capacity, and mistaken belief. The authors situate this discussion in the context of current debates in feminist and critical disability theory, grounding the theory in scholarly research on sexual assault of women with mental disabilities. In considering the law's treatment of sexual violence against this group of women, the authors engage two key theoretical tensions: (1) the supposed dichotomy of protection and autonomy, and (2) the shift from biomedical to social models of disability.