The technoscientific witness of rape : contentious histories of law, feminism, and forensic science

Quinlan, Andrea 1984- (author.).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1487520603
ISBN: 9781487520601
ISBN: 1487500815
ISBN: 9781487500818
ISBN: 1487511884
ISBN: 9781487511883
ISBN: 1487511876
ISBN: 9781487511876
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
Copyright: �2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:july.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by EBSCO.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.