{"620231":{"#nid":"620231","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/bullinger-lindsey\u0022\u003ER\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/renee-shelby\u0022\u003Eenee Shelby\u003C\/a\u003E, a\u0026nbsp;Ph.D. candidate\u0026nbsp;at\u0026nbsp;the Georgia Institute of Technology School of History and Sociology, was recently quoted in an\u0026nbsp;article entitled \u0026ldquo;How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit\u0026rdquo; for\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EVice.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHere\u0026#39;s an excerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the US, what is colloquially known as a \u0026ldquo;rape kit\u0026rdquo; hasn\u0026rsquo;t changed much since it was developed. Officially named for the Chicago police sergeant who helped create it, the \u0026ldquo;Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit\u0026rdquo; was unveiled in the late 1970s as a way to collect evidence from a person\u0026rsquo;s body using swabs, combs, slides, and fingernail clippings.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/d3mj4x\/rape-kit-speculum-history-sexual-assault\u0022\u003ERead the full story here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/hsoc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EThe School of History and Sociology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a unit of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/iac.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34559","created_gmt":"2019-04-09 17:23:46","changed_gmt":"2019-04-09 17:23:46","author":"pdemerritt3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Nathan Bowman","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/broadly.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/d3mj4x\/rape-kit-speculum-history-sexual-assault","dateline":{"date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2019-04-09T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"610280":{"id":"610280","type":"image","title":"Renee Shelby","body":null,"created":"1535054589","gmt_created":"2018-08-23 20:03:09","changed":"1538405849","gmt_changed":"2018-10-01 14:57:29","alt":"Portrait photo of Renee Shelby","file":{"fid":"232390","name":"IMG_5529 copy.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_5529%20copy.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_5529%20copy.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":475989,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_5529%20copy.jpg?itok=mNHpHONS"}}},"media_ids":["610280"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"176860","name":"Renee Shelby"},{"id":"180993","name":"Vice"},{"id":"147521","name":"HSOC"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}