The secret history of the rape kit : a true crime story / Pagan Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Pagan, 1962- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goddard, Marty, 1941-2015.

Goddard, Marty.

Rape--Investigation--History.

Rape.

Rape kits--History.

Rape kits.

Forensic sciences--History.

Forensic sciences.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

xi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Vintage Books original edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2025.

Summary:

"In 1972, Martha "Marty" Goddard volunteered at a crisis hotline, counseling girls who had been molested. By the end of the decade, she had launched a campaign pushing hospitals and police departments to collect evidence of sexual assault and treat survivors with dignity. She designed a new kind of forensics tool--the rape kit--and new practices of evidence collection that spread across the country. Yet even as Marty fought for women's rights, she allowed a man to take credit for her work and then vanished into abscurity. [This book] chronicles one journalist's mission to understand an crucial innovation and the problematic history of forensics in America. As Pagan Kennedy hunts for answers to the mystery of Marty Goddard, she reflects on her own experiences with sexual assault and her desire for justice."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-240).

Other Format:

Online version: Kennedy, Pagan, 1962- Secret history of the rape kit

ISBN:

9780593314715

0593314719

OCLC:

1430344506