The Right to Say No: Why Adult Sexual Assault Patients Decline Medical Forensic Exams and Sexual Assault Kit Evidence Collection

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Rebecca Campbell ◽  
McKenzie Javorka ◽  
Katie Gregory ◽  
Lauren Vollinger ◽  
Wenjuan Ma
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
Adult Sexual Assault ◽  
The Right

Judicial Proceedings Panel Report on Restitution and Compensation for Military Adult Sexual Assault Crimes

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Holtzman ◽  
Barbara S. Jones ◽  
Victor Stone ◽  
Thomas W. Taylor ◽  
Patricia A. Tracey
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Panel Report ◽  
Adult Sexual Assault ◽  
Judicial Proceedings

The Right to Bodily Integrity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Brysk
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Transitional Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bodily Integrity ◽  
Global Pattern ◽  
Popular Resistance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Right

In Chapter 7, we profile the global pattern of sexual violence. We will consider conflict rape and transitional justice response in Peru and Colombia, along with the plight of women displaced by conflict from Syria and Central America, and limited international policy response. State-sponsored sexual violence and popular resistance to reclaim public space will be chronicled in Egypt as well as Mexico. We will track intensifying public sexual assault amid social crisis in Turkey, South Africa, and India, which has been met by a wide range of public protest, legal reform, and policy change. For a contrasting experience of the privatization of sexual assault in developed democracies, we will trace campus, workplace, and military rape in the United States.

scholarly journals [De]-Centering the Victim: Police Perceptions of Victims of Sexual Violence through a Comparative Lens of Evidence Collection and Processing

2021 ◽  
pp. 155708512110319
Author(s):  
Deborah White ◽  
Lesley McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
Police Perceptions

Police are central to the statutory response to sexual violence, shaping the direction an investigation may take. Evidence provided by victims is also key to the processing of sexual assault cases. From a 2013 comparative qualitative study involving interviews with police officers in one province in Canada ( n = 11) and one region in Scotland ( n = 10) who investigate such cases, we discovered striking unanticipated differences between the two groups in terms of how they perceived victims and the evidence they provide. This paper presents a thematic analysis of these data and considers possible implications and explanations.

Achieving just outcomes: forensic evidence collection in emergency department sexual assault cases

2018 ◽  
pp. emermed-2018-207485
Author(s):  
Katherine A Muldoon ◽  
Allegra Drumm ◽  
Tara Leach ◽  
Melissa Heimerl ◽  
Kari Sampsel
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Forensic Evidence ◽  
Evidence Collection

Audit of Genito-Anal Injuries in male and femal sexual abuse cases - A retrospective study.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. e274
Author(s):  
Saima Gill ◽  
Sarah Mohsin ◽  
Sarah Arif ◽  
Nimra Mumtaz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Data Entry ◽  
Interval Data ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Exact Test ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
Chi Square Test ◽  
Human Participants ◽  
Assault Victims

Background: Sexual assault is a global issue wherein timely examination of sexual assault victims by medico-legal officers and an understanding of the characteristics and factors influencing their injuries have a crucial impact on medico-legal evidence collection and its use in the court. Genital injury findings improve the level of justice for victims, but the lack of injury does not negate the possibility of sexual violence incurred on the victim. The following study describes in great detail the different factors associated with injury characteristics and the medico-legal importance of all these factors. Methodology: It was a retrospective descriptive study conducted at the Forensic Medicine Department of King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan. All the cases included that fulfill the predefined inclusion criteria were included. A record chart was designed, and six years’ data was recorded in it from the medical records of the medico-legal clinic. It was entered and edited manually. Methods used to prevent data entry errors included double entry and validation following data entry Difference of proportions between variables, where appropriate, has been calculated by Pearson Chi-Square test and Fischer Exact test at 95% confidence interval. Data were analyzed using SPSS v23. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were following the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and the Helsinki declaration. Results: Genito anal injury was present in 28.2% cases and was absent in 71.8% cases. Most of the victims were aged 11 to 15 years. The most common injury in the victims was a tear. In females, the most common injury site was the vagina, while the perianal area was the most injured site in males. There was a significant relation (p<0.05) between type and site of injury, gender, site of injury, and prior sexual intercourse experience and prevalence rate of injury. Conclusion: This study concludes that the presence of injuries in the Genito anal area is suggestive of sexual assault and provides useful court evidence.

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