Sexual violence is a critical global problem in every culture and all areas of the world. Even though the majority of victims are women, this violence affects all people of all ages, regardless of gender and wealth. It is thus necessary for medico-legal examiners, that have undergone specific training, to help with medical and legal intervention of victims of sexual assaults. (World Health Organization 2003).
Before 2009 in the United States, a victim would have to report the crime to the Sex Crime Unit of a police stations and undergo an interview with SCU detectives. The SCU would then establish if a forensic exam is necessary and a rape crisis advocate would be called to aid in the support to the victim. Before having trained forensic …show more content…
Mulla studies and evaluates the intervention that transpires in the emergency room, which involves both medical and legal aspects of the intervention. This book analyzes the methods of forensic nursing in the collection and preservation of evidence that is deemed to be necessary to pursue criminal charges of sexual assault. Mulla’s narrative focuses on the practice of law and the structure of nursing needed for sexual assault cases. Her work as a rape crisis advocate allowed her to capture first-hand experiences of all individuals involved in the invention and uncovers that this so called intervention of care is one of violence. Mulla argues and achieves the argument that having a medico-legal approach to the forensic investigation can lead to what sexual assault victims refer to as “secondary rape.” This “secondary rape” alludes to the nurses racing against time to collect and preserve the evidence and transcribe the victim’s narrative according to the requirements of the state. On the other hand, with all the pain and emotions the victim must endure to collect the evidence, the medico-legal evidence has a small impact on a conviction (Mulla 2014:17). If the evidence does
Before 2009 in the United States, a victim would have to report the crime to the Sex Crime Unit of a police stations and undergo an interview with SCU detectives. The SCU would then establish if a forensic exam is necessary and a rape crisis advocate would be called to aid in the support to the victim. Before having trained forensic …show more content…
Mulla studies and evaluates the intervention that transpires in the emergency room, which involves both medical and legal aspects of the intervention. This book analyzes the methods of forensic nursing in the collection and preservation of evidence that is deemed to be necessary to pursue criminal charges of sexual assault. Mulla’s narrative focuses on the practice of law and the structure of nursing needed for sexual assault cases. Her work as a rape crisis advocate allowed her to capture first-hand experiences of all individuals involved in the invention and uncovers that this so called intervention of care is one of violence. Mulla argues and achieves the argument that having a medico-legal approach to the forensic investigation can lead to what sexual assault victims refer to as “secondary rape.” This “secondary rape” alludes to the nurses racing against time to collect and preserve the evidence and transcribe the victim’s narrative according to the requirements of the state. On the other hand, with all the pain and emotions the victim must endure to collect the evidence, the medico-legal evidence has a small impact on a conviction (Mulla 2014:17). If the evidence does