Survey of Sexual Assaults Survivors

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1. INTRODUCTION

The Department of Justice Canada undertook the Survey of Sexual Assault Survivors in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres (CASAC) and eleven of its member centres.[1]  The objectives of the survey were to gain a better understanding of:

• what sexual assault survivors consider when deciding whether or not to report their abuse to the police;
• the impact of possible record disclosure on that decision;
• the experiences of survivors who do report; and
• what women would change in how the criminal justice system handles sexual assault cases.

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[1]The participating centres are listed in Appendix 1.

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