How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit

Posted April 9, 2019

External Article: Vice

Renee Shelby, a Ph.D. candidate at the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, was recently quoted in an article entitled “How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit” for Vice.

Here's an excerpt:

In the US, what is colloquially known as a “rape kit” hasn’t changed much since it was developed. Officially named for the Chicago police sergeant who helped create it, the “Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit” was unveiled in the late 1970s as a way to collect evidence from a person’s body using swabs, combs, slides, and fingernail clippings.

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