The Victim Advocacy and Research Group: Serving a Growing Need to Provide Rape Victims with Personal Legal Representation to Protect Privacy Rights and to Fight Gender Bias in the Criminal Justice System

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 123-138

  Murphy, Wendy J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidentiality; Criminal justice; Due process; Gender bias; Privacy rights; Rape; Sexism; Sexual assault; Victim's rights

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035646424     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009437904083     Document Type: Article

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