Bodies in Evidence : : Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication / / Sameena Mulla, Heather R. Hlavka.
Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological SocietyHonorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the Association for Feminist AnthropologyUncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violenceFor victims in...
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Hlavka, Heather R., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Bodies in Evidence : Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication / Sameena Mulla, Heather R. Hlavka. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource : 6 b/w illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Imagining and Witnessing Sexual Assault Adjudication -- 1. Common Sense and the Nomos of Sexual Assault: Selecting and Sensitizing Jurors -- 2. Permission to Speak: Testimony and the Spectacle of Suffering -- 3. The Low and the High: Presumption, Power, and Police Expertise -- 4. Nursing Sexual Violence from the Stand: Victimized and Victimizing Bodies -- 5. The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Performing Forensic Expertise -- 6. The Good Father: Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Scenes of Admonishment -- Conclusion: Race, Place, and Subjugation in the Courts -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American Ethnological SocietyHonorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the Association for Feminist AnthropologyUncovers how the process of sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a public spectacle of violenceFor victims in sexual assault cases, trials rarely result in justice. Instead, the courts drag defendants, victims, and their friends and family through a confusing and protracted public spectacle. Along the way, forensic scientists, sexual assault nurse examiners, and police officers provide their insight and expertise, shaping the story that emerges for the judge and jury. These expert narratives intersect with the stories of victims, witnesses, and their communities to reproduce our cultural understandings of sexual violence, but too often this process results in reinscribing racial, gendered, and class inequalities. Bodies in Evidence draws on observations of over 680 court appearances in Milwaukee County’s felony sexual assault courts, as well as interviews with judges, attorneys, forensic scientists, jurors, sexual assault nurse examiners, and victim advocates. It shows how forensic science helps to propagate public misunderstandings of sexual violence by bestowing an aura of authority to race and gender stereotypes and inequalities. Expert testimony reinforces the idea that sexual assault is physically and emotionally recognizable and always leaves material evidence. The court’s reliance on the presence of forensic evidence infuses these very familiar stereotypes and myths about sexual assault with new scientific authority. Powerful, unflinching, and at times heartbreaking, Bodies in Evidence reveals the human cost of sexual assault adjudication, and the social cost we all bear when investing in forms of justice that reproduce inequality and racial injustice. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2024) Discrimination in criminal justice administration United States. Evidence, Criminal United States. Forensic sciences United States. Sex crimes Law and legislation United States. Sex discrimination in criminal justice administration United States. LAW / Gender & the Law. bisacsh DNA. Sexual assault. attorney. body. children. court. cultural narratives. defendant. defense. evidence. expert witness. expertise. fatherhood. forensic nurse. forensic science. forensics. gender. geography. heteronormativity. judge. jury selection. jury. justice. legal ethnography. method. police. prosecution. race. rape myths. sentencing. testimony. trial. victim. Mulla, Sameena, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479809653.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479809653 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479809653/original |
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