Making a Space for Medical Expertise: Medical Knowledge of Sexual Assault and the Construction of Boundaries between Forensic Medicine and the Law in Late Nineteenth-century England
Making a Space for Medical Expertise: Medical Knowledge of Sexual Assault and the Construction of Boundaries between Forensic Medicine and the Law in Late Nineteenth-century England
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DOI：
10.1177/1743872111429918
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
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0.3
通讯作者：
Rees, Gethin
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作者：
Crozier, Ivan;Rees, Gethin
这篇文章着眼于维多利亚时代医生所做的界定工作，以便将自己定位为有利于法院帮助确定妇女是否被强奸的问题。这些医生提供了有形的物证，支持了人们对强奸受害者性质的广泛看法。这样的物证可以用来支持或削弱申诉人的指控。文章的结论是，对法医证据的依赖是这种边界构建的结果，是维持目前强奸案国际“司法差距”的主要因素之一。
This article looks at the boundary work performed by Victorian doctors in order to position themselves as beneficial to the court in helping to determine whether a woman had been raped. These doctors provided tangible physical evidence to support already widely-held beliefs about the nature of the rape victim. Such physical evidence could then be used to support, or undermine, the complainant's allegation. The article concludes that the reliance upon forensic evidence, the result of such boundary construction, is one of the major factors maintaining the current international "justice gap" in rape cases.