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Journal articles on the topic "Robert Pickton"

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Craig, Elaine. "Person(s) of Interest and Missing Women: Legal Abandonment in the Downtown Eastside." McGill Law Journal 60, no. 1 (December 8, 2014): 1–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1027718ar.

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The criminal prosecution of Robert Pickton involved an eleven-month jury trial, two appeals to the British Columbia Court of Appeal, an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada, and seventy-six reported judicial rulings. This article, through a combination of discursive and doctrinal analyses of these seventy-six decisions, examines what was (not) achieved by the Pickton trial. It discusses three areas: the judicial representation of the women Pickton was prosecuted for murdering; the implications of the jury’s verdict in the Pickton proceedings; and the impact of the Pickton trial on the families of the women he murdered. The article starts from the premise that it is correct to characterize these murders as a product of collective violence. Colonialism, political and legal infrastructure, and public discourse—and hegemonies based on race, class, and gender that these processes, institutions, and practices hold in place—produced a particular class of vulnerable women, the police who failed them, and Robert Pickton. The article concludes by suggesting that the outcomes of the Pickton prosecution both highlight the limitations of the criminal justice system and offer an analytical framework for examining other institutional responses (such as the Missing Women’s Inquiry) to the kind of collective violence that gave rise to the Pickton circumstance.

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Reid, Sasha, and Jooyoung Lee. "Confessions of a Criminal Psychopath: an Analysis of the Robert Pickton Cell-Plant." Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology 33, no. 3 (February 13, 2018): 257–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11896-018-9256-2.

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Buckle, Karen. "Book Review: Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds), Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter, New York, Palgrave, 2007; 312 pp.; £58.00 hbk; ISBN 9780230525490." Journal of Contemporary History 44, no. 2 (April 2009): 337–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220094090440020802.

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Barras, Vincent. "Medicine, Madness and Social History. Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Ed. by Robert Bivins and John V. Pickstone. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. X, 295 p. Ill. £ 58.–. ISBN 978-0-230-52549-8." Gesnerus 66, no. 2 (November 11, 2009): 339–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22977953-06602027.

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Hull, Andrew. "Roberta Bivins and John V Pickstone (eds), Medicine, madness and social history: essays in honour of Roy Porter, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. x, 295, illus., £55.00 (hardback 978-0-230-52549-8)." Medical History 53, no. 2 (April 2009): 311–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0025727300003823.

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Smith, Roger. "Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds.) Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. x+295. ISBN 978-0-203-52549-8. £55.00 (hardback)." British Journal for the History of Science 41, no. 2 (June 2008): 281–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087408000940.

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Smith, Leonard. "Book Review: Roberta Bivins and John V. Pickstone (eds) (2007) Medicine, Madness and Social History: Essays in Honour of Roy Porter (Basingstoke, UK, and New York: Palgrave Macmillan). Pp. x + 295. £55.00. ISBN 10: 0-230-52549-0." History of Psychiatry 19, no. 3 (September 2008): 374–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957154x08093499.

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Dusome, Jori. "Lost and Forgotten: Missing and Murdered Sex Workers on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside." INvoke 6 (December 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/invoke48990.

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From 1978 to 2002, more than 60 women went missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, an area that has often been described as “Canada’s poorest postal code”. For decades, families of the area’s missing women filed police reports and engaged with the media about their vanished loved ones, however little headway was made in the case until ten years later, when the Vancouver Sun began publishing a series of stories on the women that drew provincial and national attention. Motivated by citizen dissent and accusations of negligence, The Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP finally launched a joint task force, resulting in the arrest and conviction of Robert “Willie” Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, for the serial murders of street-involved women. The subsequent excavation of the Pickton property became the largest criminal investigation in Canadian history, spanning several years and costing tens of millions of dollars. However, the danger and violence that plagued women on the Downtown Eastside remained largely the same for many years after Pickton’s arrest. While media coverage narrated Pickton as a single deranged male, this narrative effectively eliminated the context of the broader social background that thrust these women into harm’s way. In this paper, I will discuss the racialization, spatialization, and class distinctions that heavily influence women's participation in the sex trade, as well the media narratives that enable an understanding of Pickton as a violent outlier. The research shows that despite these narratives, violence against marginalized women is a part of the normative social order, which is precisely what allows violent men to function without apprehension in these communities for so long. As you will read, violence against women cannot be described as simply the action of a few bad apples, but is instead a larger part of a “continuum of violence” enacted against already marginalized women. Keywords: MMIWG, Robert Pickton, sexual violence, street-level sex work

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Cameron, Anna. "Other People's Problems: Missing Women, Murderers, and the Media." Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings, February 20, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/iqurcp.9288.

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There are over 600 missing and murdered aboriginal women across Canada. A long history of systemic racism has made these women extremely vulnerable to violent crimes. Most of their fates remain a mystery, but some murderers have been caught who are responsible for their deaths. I examined the news articles that cover the crimes of convicted murderers Robert Pickton and John Martin Crawford. Of the two, only Pickton is very well known. However, while the media covered his crimes extensively, much of the coverage is misleading. The aboriginality of the victims is downplayed, and other tactics are used to blame the victims and focus on the killer. The coverage surrounding John Martin Crawford uses similar misleading strategies, although there is significantly less of it. I argue that because the aboriginality of the victims was emphasized instead of downplayed in the coverage of Crawford’s murders, there was less interest in the cases. Most people will read about crimes when they can identify with the victims. While most of Pickton’s victims were aboriginal, the number of victims was so enormous and the details of the case were so grisly, that the aboriginality was downplayed to attract the attention that these other aspects gave the case. Crawford’s victims were all aboriginal women, but he killed fewer and was not seen as a threat. The media influences how people think about society. If the media continues to treat these types of crimes in this way, the ideas that fuel these crimes will also continue.

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Dusome, Jori. "Discourses of Blame: An Analysis of Media Coverage in the Robert Pickton Case." INvoke 6 (December 7, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/invoke48993.

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When most Canadians consume their news media, they don't often consider the underlying narratives of colonialism, racism, and classism that can be spread through media representations of marginalized peoples. Such is the case with Indigenous women in Canada, who die violently at five times the rate of other Canadian women, but are given three and a half times less coverage in the media than white women for similar cases. News media articles covering Indigenous women's deaths are also less in-depth and less likely to make the front page. Prior to the apprehension of Robert “Willy” Pickton in 2002, media coverage of the dozens of missing women on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside was minimal, and often portrayed the women as the harbingers of their own misfortune. The Vancouver Police Department also failed to take action, citing the women’s “transient lifestyles” as reason to believe they would return soon. However, even after widespread recognition of the issue began, media coverage continued to attribute a level of “blameworthiness” to the missing and murdered by regularly engaging with tropes and stereotypes that individualized the acts of violence against them. In this paper, I look to explore that phenomenon by asking how the women of the Downtown Eastside are named as culpable or blameworthy in the violence enacted against them, as evidenced in the media coverage of the Robert Pickton case. My analysis found that while an identifiable killer like Pickton provided the news media a temporary cause for the women’s deaths, sex-working and drug using women maintained blame in the public eye both during and long after the case, due in equal parts to their use of drugs, their status as sex workers, and their proximity to “tainted” geographical regions like the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. As evidenced by this research, Indigenous women are continually and systemically blamed for the violence enacted against them. Keywords: MMIWG, sex work, media bias, Downtown Eastside, gendered violence

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Robert Pickton"

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Pearce, Maryanne. "An Awkward Silence: Missing and Murdered Vulnerable Women and the Canadian Justice System." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26299.

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The murders and suspicious disappearances of women across Canada over the past forty years have received considerable national attention in the past decade. The disappearances and murders of scores of women in British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba have highlighted the vulnerability of women to extreme violence. Girls and women of Aboriginal ethnicity have been disproportionally affected in all of these cases and have high rates of violent victimization. The current socio-economic situation faced by Aboriginal women contributes to this. To provide publicly available data of missing and murdered women in Canada, a database was created containing details of 3,329 women, including 824 who are Aboriginal. There are key risk factors that increase the probability of experiencing lethal violence: street prostitution, addiction and insecure housing. The vast majority of sex workers who experience lethal violence are street prostitutes. The dissertation examines the legal status and forms of prostitution in Canada and internationally, as well as the individual and societal impacts of prostitution. A review of current research on violence and prostitution is presented. The thesis provides summaries from 150 serial homicide cases targeting prostitutes in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. The trends and questions posed by these cases are identified. The cases of the missing women of Vancouver and Robert Pickton are detailed. The key findings from the provincial inquiry into the missing women cases and an analysis of the most egregious failings of the investigations (Projects Amelia and Evenhanded) are discussed. Frequently encountered challenges and common errors, as well as investigative opportunities and best practices of police, and other initiatives and recommendations aimed at non-police agencies are evaluated. The three other RCMP-led projects, KARE, DEVOTE and E-PANA, which are large, dedicated units focused on vulnerable women, are assessed. All Canadian women deserve to live free of violence. For women with vulnerable life histories, violence is a daily threat and a common occurrence. More must be done to prevent violence and to hold offenders responsible when violence has been done. This dissertation is a plea for resources and attention; to turn apathy into pragmatic, concrete action founded on solid evidence-based research.

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Books on the topic "Robert Pickton"

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Swinney, Chris. Robert Pickton: The pig farmer killer. Canada]: Vronsky Parker Publication, 2015.

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On the farm: Robert William Pickton and the tragic story of Vancouver's missing women. Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada, 2010.

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PHILIPPE, Corinne. Les Disparues de Vancouver: L'Affaire Robert Pickton. Independently published, 2019.

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PHILIPPE, Corinne. Les Disparues de Vancouver: L'Affaire Robert Pickton. Independently published, 2019.

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On the Farm - Robert William Pickton and The Tragic Story of Vancouver's Missing Women. Random House, 2011.

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Book chapters on the topic "Robert Pickton"

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"Le tueur en série Robert William Pickton." In Secrets d'ossements, 63–64. EDP Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/978-2-7598-0900-4.c016.

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