Research Catalog

Title

The victim's voice in the sexual misconduct crisis : identity, credibility, and proof / Mary Schuster.

Author

Schuster, Mary Lay

Publication

• Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

x, 213 pages; 24 cm

Summary

The Victim's Voice in the Sexual Misconduct Crisis investigates how a victim's voice, identity, credibility, and proof are challenged or established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using communication and rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, Mary Schuster examines concerns such as victim impact statements offered in sentencing hearings of convicted offenders, due process and Title IX requirements in campus sexual assault investigations, and laws and Title VII standards governing workplace sexual harassment complaints. Schuster also analyzes the testimony offered in the 1991 and 1998 U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearings regarding the Supreme Court nominations of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, social movements such as #Me Too, and global activists' efforts to challenge gender stereotypes and hierarchies. This book argues that we cannot outlaw or legislate away sexual misconduct, but must instead focus on cultural, social, and systemic changes in order to change the current climate. Moreover, the author argues for zero tolerance for sexual misconduct, but recommends a gradation of punishment or sanctions for offenders, offering examples of successful educational and therapeutic efforts to alter misconceptions regarding sexual misconduct. Scholars of gender studies, communication, legal studies, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Sexual abuse victims > United States > History > 21st century
• Sexual abuse victims > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Rape victims > United States > History > 21st century
• Male rape victims > United States > History > 21st century
• Rape in universities and colleges > United States > History > 21st century
• Sex crimes > United States > History > 21st century
• Sexual consent > United States > History
• Sexual abuse victims > United States > Case studies
• Rape victims > United States > Case studies
• Male rape victims > United States > Case studies
• Rape in universities and colleges > United States > Case studies
• Sex crimes > United States > Case studies
• Trials (Sex crimes) > United States > History > 21st century
• Rape victims
• Male rape victims
• Rape in universities and colleges
• Sex crimes
• Sexual abuse victims
• Sexual abuse victims > Legal status, laws, etc
• Sexual consent
• Trials (Sex crimes)
• United States

Genre/Form

• Case studies.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Communication, legal, and gender perspectives on the sexual misconduct crisis -- Silence and listening in sexual misconduct cases -- Victim impact statements in the Larry Nassar sentencing hearings -- Affirmative consent and standards of proof in campus policies -- Subjectivity and objectivity and the "severe or pervasive" requirement -- "Tactics tethered to hope" or cultural and systemic attempts to stop sexual misconduct.

Call Number

JFE 20-4520

ISBN

• 9781498598460
• 1498598463
• 9781498598477 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019914375

OCLC

1112202977

Author

Schuster, Mary Lay, author.

Title

The victim's voice in the sexual misconduct crisis : identity, credibility, and proof / Mary Schuster.

Publisher

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 20-4520