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27 septembre 2017
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Laura Robinson, « 4. Hockey Night in Canada », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.kgn49l
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While the preceding chapters in this section explore the promise and peril of using law to confront the role of police and policing in sexual assault, Laura Robinson’s chapter looks at another institution implicated in sexual assault — Canada’s national sport, hockey. Laura’s account of the trials of David Frost, a junior hockey coach, for sexual assaults committed against girls — employees, fans, and girlfriends of his players — picks up on Julia Tolmie’s point that social definitions of “real rape” often override what are otherwise clear criminal law violations. Laura allocates responsibility for the failure of these prosecutions not to the evidence or to the law, but to police, prosecutors, and judges, as does Julia Tolmie. She also connects the hyper-masculinity of hockey violence to practices of sexual coercion as well as to the way that even prosecutors protected each other and the system, forcing the young women to take the stand as witnesses, not complainants, thereby losing their anonymity, and calling their violations “consensual.”