Doctoral Dissertation Research: Legal and Medical Sexual Assault Interventions in Baltimore, MD

该项目探讨了法律和医疗性侵犯干预领域内的复杂关系网络，以及国家与性侵犯受害者互动的正式制度的后果和好处。调查团将使用实地调查技术，在一年的时间内跟踪特定的性侵犯受害者及其案件，以了解和记录法律和医疗性侵犯协议的短期和长期影响。本项目以三个问题为指导：1)个体行为者及其产生和记录的证据如何保存性侵犯受害者的身体侵犯，使其处于适当的制度结构内？2)在急诊室和邻近地点的受害者和机构人员相遇时，时间的作用是什么？3)在干预的不同阶段，关于性侵犯和治疗的多重（有时是相互冲突的）叙述是什么？这个项目与大多数研究采用的方法不同，它从性侵犯受害者进入提供护理的机构而不是法庭的那一刻开始。

This project explores the complex web of relationships within the world of legal and medical sexual assault interventions and the consequences and benefits of the formal system by which the State interacts with sexual assault victims. The PI will use field research techniques to follow particular sexual assault victims and their cases over a one-year period to understand and document the short- and long-term effects of legal and medical sexual assault protocols. This project is guided by three questions: 1) How do individual actors and the evidence that they produce and document preserve a sexual assault victim's physical violations such that they are within the appropriate institutional structure? 2) What is the role of time in the encounter between victims and institutional agents in the emergency room and adjoining sites? 3) What are the multiple, at times conflicting, narratives of sexual violation and healing in circulation at different stages in the intervention? This project deviates from the approach taken by most studies by starting at the moment at which sexual assault victims enter a facility that provides care rather than a courtroom.