has changed over the last three decades and there is need to have the necessary adjustments in the legal system. By the time the reforms were introduced into the earlier laws the most important issue was ending gender discrimination in the ruling on the rape victims. This was a positive direction and it enhanced the confidence of the people in the judicial system. However, the priority of various parties affected by the reforms has changed and they need more specific definitions with regard to terms used in the rape cases such as consent. Therefore, this calls for more reforms into the law to enhance the justice system in the country. However, owing to the failure of the law reforms in the country, it is not clear whether reforms are the best
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L. (2000). So Few Convictions The Role of Client-Related Characteristics in the Legal Processing of Sexual Assaults. Violence Against Women, 6(10), 1109-1136.
Frank, D. J., Hardinge, T., & Wosick-Correa, K. (2009). The global dimensions of rape-law reform: A cross-national study of policy outcomes. American Sociological Review, 74(2), 272-29
Gotell, L. (2008). Rethinking affirmative consent in Canadian sexual assault law: Neoliberal sexual subjects and risky women. Akron L. Rev., 41, 865.
McDaniels-Wilson, C., & Belknap, J. (2008). The extensive sexual violation and sexual abuse histories of incarcerated women. Violence Against Women,14(10), 1090-1127.
Randall, M. (2010). Sexual assault law, credibility, and “ideal victims”: Consent, resistance, and victim blaming. Canadian Journal of Women and the Law,22(2), 397-433.
Seidman, I., & Vickers, S. H. (2005). The second wave: An agenda for the next thirty years of rape law reform. Suffolk University Law Review, 38, 467.
Tang, K. L. (2008). Rape law reform in Canada: The success and limits of legislation. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 42(3),