Women in Criminal Justice is Book Four in the Durvile True Cases Series and in it, Canadian women judges and criminal lawyers tell of cases that they have found particularly challenging. Some were disquieting/perplexing or had surprising turns, many are high-profile, and many continue to have interesting social or personal effect. Unique to this book, are distinctly women's perspectives, and many chapters deal with sexual assault, Indigenous, child protection and motherhood, mental health, LGBTQ+, immigration, terrorism, and other vitally pertinent issues of the decade.

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Hon. Susan Lang
on flawed forensic evidence
Hon. Nancy Morrison
on a horrendous case of sexual abuse
Hon. Lise Maisonneuve
on the emerging role of women in criminal law
Hon. Danielle Côté
on the pressures of Judging
Hon. Iona Jaffe
on the Toronto 18 terrorism case
Senator Kim Pate
on the plight of an Indigenous woman in prison
Jennifer Briscoe
on the Fly-in Squad in Canada's far North
Catherine Dunn
on Indigenous victims of domestic violence
Kaysi Fagan
on a woman caught in the world of drug trafficking
Deborah Hatch
on the ubiquitousness of wrongful convictions
Karen Hudson
on people in the gallery of criminal justice
Barbara Jackman
on immigration and human rights
Lucie Joncas
on interacting with a population at risk
Susan Kyle
on being a Crown and a mother
Jill Presser
on the fight for LGBTQ+ justice
Rosellen Sullivan
on a 13-year-old's loss of innocence
Jennifer Trehearne
on interaction of courts and mental disorders