The Technoscientific Witness of Rape : Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science /

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The Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book to chart the thirty-year history of the sexual assault evidence kit and its role in a criminal justice system that re-victimizes many assault victims in their quest for medical treatment and justice.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quinlan, Andrea, 1984- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rape victims > Legal status, laws, etc.
Rape.
Rape > Investigation.
Forensic sciences.
Evidence preservation.
Evidence, Criminal.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Criminalistique > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Preuve (Droit penal) > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Preuve (Droit penal) > Conservation > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Viol > Enquêtes > Ontario > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Criminal justice, Administration of > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Forensic sciences > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Evidence, Criminal > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Evidence preservation > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Rape victims > Legal status, laws, etc. > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Rape > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Rape > Investigation > Ontario > History > 20th century.
Ontario.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Diffracting the Technoscientific Witness; 2 Inscriptions of Doubt: Law, Anti-Rape Activism, and the Early SAEK; 3 Stabilizing the SAEK: Controversies in Practice, Advocacy, and Expertise; 4 Assembling the Genetic Technoscientific Witness: Visions of Justice, Safety, and the Stranger Rapist; 5 Instability Within: The Technoscientific Witness in Contemporary Practice; 6 Reassembling Technoscience: Troubled Pasts and Imagined Futures; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.

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