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Bodies in Evidence : Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication /
"Uncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violence [f]or victims in sexual assault cases, trials rarely result in justice. Instead, the courts drag defendants, victims, and their friends and family through a confusing and pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction. Imagining and Witnessing Sexual Assault Adjudication
- 1. Common Sense and the Nomos of Sexual Assault: Selecting and Sensitizing Jurors
- 2. Permission to Speak: Testimony and the Spectacle of Suffering
- 3. The Low and the High: Presumption, Power, and Police Expertise
- 4. Nursing Sexual Violence from the Stand: Victimized and Victimizing Bodies
- 5. The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Performing Forensic Expertise
- 6. The Good Father: Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Scenes of Admonishment
- Conclusion: Race, Place, and Subjugation in the Courts
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Authors