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Bodies in Evidence - Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication (Hardcover)
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Bodies in Evidence - Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication (Hardcover)
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Winner, 2021-2022 AES Senior Book Prize, awarded by the American
Ethnological Society Honorable Mention, Senior Book Prize of the
Association for Feminist Anthropology Uncovers how the process of
sexual assault adjudication reinforces inequality and becomes a
public spectacle of violence For 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.
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