Protecting the perpetrator: value judgements in US and English university sexual violence cases
Protecting the perpetrator: value judgements in US and English university sexual violence cases
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保护施暴者：美国和英国大学性暴力案件的价值判断
作者：
E. Shannon
抽象的
本文考察了对学生幸存者的四次采访，了解他们向美国和英国的大学报告性骚扰和暴力的经历，以及他们的大学如何保护肇事者的经历。采访参与者透露，攻击者没有被追究责任，因为大学认为他们比幸存者更有价值，无论是攻击者所扮演的角色还是他们在各自领域产生影响的潜力。我通过结合三种理论来分析这些实例，以展示新自由主义大学中的权力/价值关系如何使某些人变得可有可无，以及这些权力/价值关系如何通过言语和听觉的权力动态来制定，以保护大学性暴力案件中更“有价值”的一方。文章最后提出了结构性变革的可能建议。
ABSTRACT
This paper examines four interviews with student survivors about their experiences of reporting sexual harassment and violence to universities in the United States and England, and their experiences of how their universities protected the perpetrators. Interview participants revealed that their assailants were not held accountable because the university determined they were more valuable than the survivor, whether in terms of the role the assailant occupied or their potential to make an impact in their field. I analyse these instances by combining three theories to show both how power/value relations in the neoliberal university make certain people (in)dispensable, and how these power/value relations are enacted through power dynamics of speech and hearing to protect the more ‘valuable’ party in university sexual violence cases. The article concludes with possible recommendations for structural change.