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7Trafficking in Truth: Media, Sexuality, and Human Rights EvidenceFeminist Studies 38 (2): 415-443. 2012.
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7Constructing Sexual Harm: Prosecutorial Narratives of Children, Abuse, and the Disruption of HeterosexualityGender and Society 33 (4): 560-582. 2019.Sociologists have identified many factors that mitigate the progressive effects of the legal mobilization to end sexual violence. Within this body of research, however, there is little interrogation about the social construction of sexual harm. I use the case of child sexual abuse to investigate how prosecutors make sense of sexual harm. Data are qualitative interviews with 43 prosecutors. Findings reveal that prosecutors use a framework of sexual identity to construct sexual injury on the child…Read more
Bristol, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |