{"616153":{"#nid":"616153","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Renee Shelby Publishes Article in Theoretical Criminology","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/renee-shelby\u0022\u003ERenee Shelby\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E (HSOC),\u0026nbsp;recently published a journal article\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETheoretical Criminology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eabout the US Vitullo\u0026reg; Kit, arguing that the kit emerged as a strategic feminist and positivist criminological intervention.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article, entitled \u0026ldquo;Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo\u0026reg; Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism,\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;traces the stabilization of the kit from 1973 to 1987, attending to how community advocates embraced technoscientific protocols to intervene in medico-legal evidence collection.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article fills an important gap in\u0026nbsp;Science and Technology Studies scholarship that has increasingly focused on the rape kit, with scholars critiquing the gendered biases that are enacted through the medico-legal exam and how the kit itself serves as a technoscientific witness of rape. However, little scholarship has focused on the discourses surrounding the early US Vitullo\u0026reg; Kit.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1362480618819805\u0022\u003EThe full article is available here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShelby is a sociologist with research experience in gender and crime, technology, and youth violence. She is originally from Lansing, Kansas, and has earned an M.A. in sociology and public health at Georgia\u0026nbsp;State\u0026nbsp;University. In 2012, she was selected as Outstanding Graduate Student and served as an Urban Fellow in the School of Law 2013. Before beginning the HSOC Ph.D. program at Georgia Tech, she taught Social Problems and Introduction to\u0026nbsp;Sociology\u0026nbsp;at Georgia State University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHSOC is a unit of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/renee-shelby\u0022\u003ERenee Shelby\u003C\/a\u003E, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Institute of Technology \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E (HSOC),\u0026nbsp;recently published a journal article\u0026nbsp;in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ETheoretical Criminology\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/em\u003Eabout the US Vitullo\u0026reg; Kit, arguing that the kit emerged as a strategic feminist and positivist criminological intervention.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Renee Shelby, an HSOC Ph.D.\u00a0student, recently had her article titled, \u0022Whose rape kit? 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