An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System

An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System

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The murders and suspicious disappearances of women across Canada over the past forty years have received considerable national attention in the past decade. The disappearances and murders of scores of women in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba have highlighted the vulnerability of women to extr...

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Main Author: Pearce, Maryanne
Other Authors: Backhouse, Constance
Language:en
Published: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa 2013
Subjects:
Missing and Murdered Aboriginal women
Missing and Murdered women
serial killers
serial killers targeting sex workers
sex work
RCMP
Robert Pickton
Project Amelia
Project Devote
Project E-PANA
Project Evenhanded
Project KARE
Aboriginal women
best police practices
database
Downtown Eastside
Vancouver Police Department
violence against Aboriginal women
violence against sex workers
vulnerable persons
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26299
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3344

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http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26299
http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-3344

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