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Gendered and Racialized Violence, Strip Searches, Sexual Assault and Abuse of Prosecutorial Power

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Gendered and Racialized Violence, Strip Searches, Sexual Assault and Abuse of Prosecutorial Power
Abstract
In the early morning hours of September 6, 2008, S.B., a twenty-seven-year old African Canadian, experienced the depths of depravity at the hands of five officers with the Ottawa Police Service. She was arrested unlawfully for effectively questioning why she had been stopped by the police, taken to the police station where she was assaulted and strip searched in the presence of a number of male officers, one of whom cut off her shirt and bra with a pair of scissors, and then left half-naked in a cell for over three hours. When she left the police station, she found herself charged with assaulting a police officer. The case was reviewed on a number of occasions by senior prosecutors who believed that the prosecution of S.B. was in the public interest. Two years after the incident, a trial judge stayed the charge concluding that it was a "travesty" and that what happened to her was an "indignity to a human being."
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SSRN Scholarly Paper
Archive ID
1760142
Place
Rochester, NY
Date
2011
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9/29/23, 5:12 PM
Language
en
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Social Science Research Network
Citation
Tanovich, D. M. (2011). Gendered and Racialized Violence, Strip Searches, Sexual Assault and Abuse of Prosecutorial Power (SSRN Scholarly Paper 1760142). https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=1760142
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