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Author Quinlan, Andrea, 1984- author.

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

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Rape -- Investigation -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Rape -- Investigation.
Ontario.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Rape -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Rape.
Rape victims -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Rape victims -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Evidence preservation -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Evidence, Criminal -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Rape victims.
Forensic sciences -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Evidence preservation.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Ontario -- History -- 20th century.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Evidence, Criminal.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
Forensic sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Sexual assault.
Other Form: Print version: Quinlan, Andrea. Technoscientific Witness of Rape : Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2017 9781487520601
ISBN 9781487511876 (electronic book)
1487511876 (electronic book)
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1487520603 (paper)