Making Time
Making Time
Temporalities of Law, Healing, and Sexual Violence
This chapter examines how time is worked during forensic interventions and how institutional temporality differs from the ways in which sexual assault victims narrate their experiences in time. More specifically, it considers the ways in which time saturates sexual assault interventions. The problem of documenting medico-legal evidence is typically a problem of time; by the time a case goes to trial, the victim's wounds, psychological and physical, may have healed. During examination, forensic nurses capture these wounds through technological intervention, fixing them in time. This chapter considers the series of forensic interviews that the sexual assault victim goes through and presents cases to illustrate how the biographical, forensic, and criminal modalities of time introduced by forensic nurses reframe victims' suffering and its emplotment along particular trajectories that lead to specific destinations—legal, medical, and therapeutic.
Keywords: time, forensic interventions, temporality, sexual assault victims, sexual assault interventions, medico-legal evidence, forensic nurses, forensic interviews, sexual assault, suffering
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