Rape Work: Victims, Gender, and Emotions in Organization and Community Context

by Martin,Patricia Yancey

• ISBN13: 9780415927758
• ISBN10: 0415927757
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-03-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Despite the proliferation of rape crisis centers and other improvements in the treatment of rape victims over the past 20 years, many victims still find themselves the victims of what has been called a "second rape" by doctors, lawyers, judges, police, and administrators that process them. This book takes a critical look at the organizations and officials that process rape victims to see how the structure of their respective organizations often prevent them from providing responsive care. Rape crisis centers are considered in detail and compared with mainstream organizations such as hospital emergency rooms, law enforcement and the judicial system. These comparisons are then used to offer positive models and suggestions for change. Martin concludes by looking at examples of responsive processing in mainstream organizations and considering the rape crisis center as a woman's movement organization.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	ix
List of Figures	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(214)
1 Rape Work	13	(14)
2 Rape Work in Organizational Context	27	(20)
3 The Legal Institution: Why Police, Prosecutors, and Judges Collaborate with Rapists and Their Defenders	47	(26)
4 Hospitals-The Reluctant Partner	73	(22)
5 Rape Crisis Centers as Unobtrusive Mobilizers	95	(24)
6 Discursive Politics	119	(20)
7 Communities and Rape Work	139	(26)
8 Gender and Rape Work	165	(20)
9 The Emotions of Rape Work: "You Need Some Really Soft Handling"	185	(30)
10 Moving Forward	215	(10)
Appendix A Research Methods and Data	225	(6)
Appendix B	231	(6)
Appendix C	237	(4)
Notes	241	(16)
References	257	(12)
Index	269