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Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape. This book is the first to address the most critical topics related to untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together leading US scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and survivors. In a series of well-researched and thoughtful thematic chapters, the book explores the current state of knowledge related to untested kits, survivors, and perpetrators, while also documenting fundamental and necessary changes in how societal systems respond to rape. It provides an opportunity to learn from our past, highlight what we could do differently now, and envision a better future for victims of rape and those tasked with ensuring justice. It may also serve as a cautionary tale for those jurisdictions that have yet to face their backlog or who have failed to embrace the practice and policy changes that have emerged from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape is essential reading for practitioners (including law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, mental health providers, forensic nurses, and forensic scientists), stakeholders, legislators, and policy makers. It will also be of interest to upper-level students and scholars working on interpersonal violence, gender-based violence, and forensic nursing in social/behavioral science fields.

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This book tackles a terrible injustice-the inexcusable backlog of untested sexual assault kits, the results of examinations of victims after a sexual assault. With passion and scientific clarity, the authors document the extent of this problem, analyze the reasons for this neglect, and propose viable solutions to improve the use of sexual assault kits to identify and prosecute sex offenders. The first-person accounts and examples from the field are especially compelling. A must read for anyone working in the sexual assault field and a text that will be a great introduction for students. Sherry Hamby, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, University of the South and Founder and Director of Life Paths Research Center This comprehensive and excellent book goes much further than just dealing with sexual assault kits (SAKs). The lack of sufficient analyses and utilization of SAKs represents the inadequate importance placed on the issues of sexual victimization in general that have too long been a low priority in societies worldwide. This book focuses on key aspects that allow the continuation of such traumatic victimization, but then the many chapters also include ways to change our systems to actually have an effect on reducing such profound interpersonal victimization that too long has been underemphasized. I strongly recommend this book and the excellent editors! Robert Geffner, PhD, ABPP, Founding President Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute dba Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA

This book tackles a terrible injustice-the inexcusable backlog of untested sexual assault kits, the results of examinations of victims after a sexual assault. With passion and scientific clarity, the authors document the extent of this problem, analyze the reasons for this neglect, and propose viable solutions to improve the use of sexual assault kits to identify and prosecute sex offenders. The first-person accounts and examples from the field are especially compelling. A must read for anyone working in the sexual assault field and a text that will be a great introduction for students. - Sherry Hamby, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, University of the South and Founder and Director of Life Paths Research Center

This book tackles a terrible injustice-the inexcusable backlog of untested sexual assault kits, the results of examinations of victims after a sexual assault. With passion and scientific clarity, the authors document the extent of this problem, analyze the reasons for this neglect, and propose viable solutions to improve the use of sexual assault kits to identify and prosecute sex offenders. The first-person accounts and examples from the field are especially compelling. A must read for anyone working in the sexual assault field and a text that will be a great introduction for students. - Sherry Hamby, Distinguished Research Professor of Psychology, University of the South and Founder and Director of Life Paths Research Center This comprehensive and excellent book goes much further than just dealing with sexual assault kits (SAKs). The lack of sufficient analyses and utilization of SAKs represents the inadequate importance placed on the issues of sexual victimization in general that have too long been a low priority in societies worldwide. This book focuses on key aspects that allow the continuation of such traumatic victimization, but then the many chapters also include ways to change our systems to actually have an effect on reducing such profound interpersonal victimization that too long has been underemphasized. I strongly recommend this book and the excellent editors! - Robert Geffner, Ph.D., ABPP, Founding President Family Violence & Sexual Assault Institute dba Institute on Violence, Abuse & Trauma, Distinguished Research professor of Psychology, Alliant International University, San Diego, CA

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Rachel E. Lovell (PhD, Sociology, The Ohio State University) is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Director of the Criminology Research Center at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is an applied criminologist and methodologist whose research focuses on gender-based violence and victimization, particularly sexual assault, human trafficking, and intimate partner violence. Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (PhD, Clinical-Community Psychology, University of Oregon) is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina—Charlotte. She is core faculty in the Clinical Health concentration of the Health Psychology PhD program and a licensed clinical psychologist in North Carolina.

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