Responding to Sexual Assault Cases: Challenging Systems and Society

When:
Thursday, May 09, 2019 4:30p -
6:00p

Where:
Wellesley College Club
727 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02481

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
https://www.wcwonline.org/Calendar

Responding to Sexual Assault Cases: Challenging Systems and Society


During this interactive program, leading researchers and advocates in the field will share perspectives on more than four decades of work examining how police, prosecutors, colleges, and society respond to sexual assault claims by women. They will share data from two federally funded studies—one which examines case attrition of sexual assault cases in six jurisdictions in the U.S., and the other which provides a systematic overview of how U.S. colleges are approaching the investigation and adjudication of sexual assault incidents. The panel will highlight broad systemic and cultural changes they believe are needed to improve responses and support for victims. Attendees will then join in the discussion to dig deeper and identify possible steps that individuals, advocates, and higher education and justice system practitioners may take to help shift systemic and societal culture in order to improve responses to sexual assault.


This program is free and open to the public. Interactive discussion will be encouraged. (Reservations are NOT required)


Facilitator:


Layli Maparyan, Ph.D., Katherine Stone Kaufmann ’67 Executive Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) and Professor of Africana Studies, Wellesley College


Panelists:


Linda Williams, Ph.D., WCW Senior Research Scientist and Director of the Justice and Gender-Based Violence Research Initiative


Alison Cares, Ph.D., WCW Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Assumption College


Carol Tracy, J.D., Executive Director, Women’s Law Project


The Wellesley Centers for Women is a premier women- and gender-focused, social-change oriented research-and-action institute at Wellesley College, with a mission to advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through high quality research, theory, and action programs. The Women’s Law Project is the only public interest law center in Pennsylvania devoted to the rights of women and girl.

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