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

• Autore: Quinlan Andrea
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (267 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 363.25/953209713
• Soggetto topico: Rape - Investigation; Rape - Law and legislation
• Soggetto geografico: Ontario
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Technoscientific Witness of Rape
• ISBN: 1-4875-1188-4; 1-4875-1187-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910861066103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II