Bodies in Evidence : Race, Gender, and Science in Sexual Assault Adjudication

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 Suffering107 -- 3. The Low and the High: Presumption, Power, an...
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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 Suffering107 -- 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 Ausführliche Beschreibung