The Technoscientific Witness of Rape - Andrea Quinlan

The Technoscientific Witness of Rape

Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science

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Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2017
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0081-8 (ISBN)
63,60 inkl. MwSt
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.
In 1984, the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit (SAEK) was dubbed "Ontario’s most successful rapist trap." Since then, the kit has become the key source of evidence in the investigation and prosecution of sexual assault as well as a symbol of victims’ improved access to care and justice. Unfortunately, the SAEK has failed to live up to these promises.

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. Drawing on actor-network theory and feminist technology studies, Andrea Quinlan combs through sixty-two interviews with police, nurses, scientists, and lawyers, as well as archival records and legal cases to trace changes in sexual assault forensics, law, advocacy, and anti-violence activism in Ontario. Through this history Quinlan bravely and provocatively argues that the SAEK reflects and reinforces the criminal justice system’s distrust of sexual assault victims.

Andrea Quinlan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of Waterloo.

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Epigraph



Introduction: Diffracting the Technoscientific Witness
Inscriptions of Doubt: Law, Anti-Rape Activism, and the Early SAEK
Stabilizing the SAEK: Controversies in Practice, Advocacy, and Expertise
Assembling the Genetic Technoscientific Witness: Visions of Justice, Safety, and the Stranger Rapist
Instability Within: The Technoscientific Witness in Contemporary Practice
Reassembling Technoscience: Troubled Pasts and Imagined Futures

Appendix: Interview Sample

References

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Toronto
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 520 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-4875-0081-5 / 1487500815
ISBN-13 978-1-4875-0081-8 / 9781487500818
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