Foreword

AuthorR. Roy McMurtry/Jim Phillips
ProfessionPresident/Editor-in-Chief
Pages7-8
FOREWORD
Tand powerful book about sexual assault crimes in Ca
nadian history, by Professor Constance Backhouse, whose previous books
for the Osgoode Society have won major awardsUsing a cas estudy ap
proach, Professor Backhouse explores nine sexual assault trials from across
the country throughout the twentieth century. We move from small towns
to large cities, from the Maritimes to t he Northwest Territories, from the suf
frageeratotheperiodofthewomensliberationmovementEachchapter
oersinsightintothefailureofthecriminaljusticesystemtoprotectwomen
from sexual assault, and each is highly readable and provocative. The most
movingchaptersdocumentthelawsrefusaltoaccommodateawomanwho
could only give evidence in sign language, and the heartbreak of a c hild rape
trialThisbookisthebestkindoflegalhistoryavividexplorationofthe
pastwhichalsogivesusthetoolstoassesstheecacyorinthiscaselack
ofecacyofthelegalsystem
The purpose of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is to
encourage research and writing on t he history of Canadian law. The Society,
whichwasincorporatedinandisregisteredasacharitywasfounded
attheinitiativeoftheHonourableRRoyMcMurtryformerlyaorneygen
eralforOntarioandchiefjusticeoftheprovinceandocialsoftheLaw
Society of Upper Canada. The Society seeks to stimulate the study of legal
history in Canada by supporting researchers, collecting oral histories, and
publishingvolumesthatcontributetolegalhistoricalscholarshipinCanada
It has published seventy books on the courts, the judiciary, and the legal
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