Featured New Titles
- Sexual assault kits and reforming the response to rape Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape. The proposed book is the first to address the most critical topics related to untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together leading US scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and survivors.
- Unmasking the Sexual Offender This book unmasks the sexual offender by providing clear, comprehensible information about the motivations, techniques, and dynamics of sexual offenders and their behavior.
- Transgressed : Intimate Partner Violence in Transgender Lives Transgender survivors of violence tell their stories Transgender people face some of the highest rates of violence in the US and around the world, particularly within romantic relationships. In Transgressed, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz offers a ground-breaking examination of intimate partner violence in the lives of transgender people. Drawing on interviews and written accounts from transgender survivors of intimate partner violence, he sheds much-needed light on the dynamics of abuse that entrap trans partners in violent relationships. Transgressed shows how rigidly gendered discussions of violence have served to marginalize and silence stories of abuse. Ultimately, these stories of survival follow their unique journeys as they navigate—and break free—from the cycle of abuse, providing us with a better understanding of their experiences. An emotionally compelling read, Transgressed offers new ways of understanding the complexities of intimate partner violence through the eyes of transgender survivors.
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About Sexual Violence
This guide provides course-specific resources for MET CJ512 / MET PS512: Sexual Violence.
Featured News
- How a Mass. law intended to protect victims became a 'gift to abusers' (WBUR) WBUR investigation found that this state’s uniquely broad privacy law, intended to protect the privacy and safety of victims of domestic and sexual violence, has instead protected perpetrators and police. The Massachusetts law requires police to keep all reports and arrests related to sexual and domestic violence secret, something no other state does.
Featured Article
Featured BU Today Article on Campus Survivors
- Campus Survivors We are an independent organization* founded by four Boston University students wanting to give survivors a safe space to share their stories. They are shared anonymously and posted on an ever-growing Instagram page, among other platforms. Your voices are being heard loud and clear. We will not be silenced.
Librarian
This guide was originally authored by Chris Smith, April, 2023.