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An Examination Of How The Canadian Military’S Legal System Responds To Sexual Assault, Elaine Craig
An Examination Of How The Canadian Military’S Legal System Responds To Sexual Assault, Elaine Craig
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Although the Canadian military has been conducting sexual assault trials for over twenty years, there has been no academic study of them and no external review of them. This review of the military’s sexual assault cases (the first of its kind) yields several important findings. First, the conviction rate for the offence of sexual assault by courts martial is dramatically lower than the rate in Canada’s civilian criminal courts. The difference between acquittal rates in sexual assault cases in these two systems appears to be even larger. Since Operation Honour was launched in 2015 only one soldier has been convicted …