Rape kits are used to collect evidence of sexual assault for testing
Jaclyn Nash/American History Museum
The secret history of rape kits
Pagan Kennedy (Vintage Book)
While I’m writing Invention, Pagan Kennedy, a book on inventions that create social change and the people behind them, describes what she calls “a technique designed to make men accountable to brutal women.” I was captivated: a rape kit.
But who invented it? According to a newspaper report, Chicago Police Sergeant Louis R. Vituro has been praised at the city’s crime lab, but several accounts have mentioned the women he cooperated with. Kennedy investigated…
Source: www.newscientist.com
