Title The technoscientific witness of rape : contentious histories of law, feminism, and forensic science / Andrea Quinlan

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations Contents 880-01 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 880-01/(S Cover; Copyright page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1βIntroduction: Diffracting the Technoscientific Witness; 2βInscriptions of Doubt: Law, Anti-Rape Activism, and the Early SAEK; 3βStabilizing the SAEK: Controversies in Practice, Advocacy, and Expertise; 4βAssembling the Genetic Technoscientific Witness: Visions of Justice, Safety, and the Stranger Rapist; 5βInstability Within: The Technoscientific Witness in Contemporary Practice; 6βReassembling Technoscience: Troubled Pasts and Imagined Futures; Appendix; Notes; References; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Rape -- Investigation -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Rape -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Rape victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Evidence preservation -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Evidence, Criminal -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Forensic sciences -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies Criminal justice, Administration of Evidence, Criminal Evidence preservation Forensic sciences Rape -- Investigation Rape Rape victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. Ontario Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781487511876 1487511876 9781487511883 1487511884

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