Victims of sexual violence in the Canadian criminal courts

Victims and Offenders

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-113

  Regehr, Cheryl ^a   Alaggia, Ramona ^a   Lambert, Liz ^a   Saini, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Criminal courts; Justice; Qualitative research; Sexual abuse; Sexual assault; Victims

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549126617     PISSN: 15564886     EISSN: 15564991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564880701783699     Document Type: Article

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