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A rape kit or rape test kit is a package of items used by medical, police or other personnel for gathering and preserving physical evidence following an instance or allegation of sexual assault. The evidence collected from the victim can aid the criminal rape investigation and the prosecution of a suspected assailant.[1][2][3][4] DNA evidence can have tremendous utility for sexual assault investigations and prosecution by identifying offenders, revealing serial offenders through DNA matches across cases, and exonerating those who have been wrongly accused.[5]

The kit was developed in Chicago in the mid-1970s, in order to provide a more uniform protocol for evidence collection after sexual assaults. While Louis R. Vitullo is frequently credited as the developer of the first kit, it was originally researched and proposed to Vitullo by Martha 'Marty' Goddard, who was a victim advocate and founder of Chicago's Citizens for Victims Assistance organization, and herself a sexual assault survivor.[6][7][8][9] For years, the standardized tool was referred to as a Vitullo kit.[1][10] Today it is colloquially referred to as a rape test kit or a rape kit, which is used interchangeably to refer to the specific evidence that is obtained through the use of the rape kit.[11] Other terms and abbreviations used are sexual assault kit (SAK), a sexual assault forensic evidence kit (SAFE), sexual assault evidence collection kit (SAECK), sexual offense evidence collection kit (SOEC) and physical evidence recovery kit (PERK).[12]

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  3. ^ "Sexual Abuse and Assault Against Women". WebMD. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  4. ^ "What is the Rape Kit Backlog?". End the Backlog. Joyful Heart Foundation. Archived from the original on February 1, 2018. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
  5. ^ Campbell, Rebecca; Fehler-Cabral, Giannina; Bybee, Deborah; Shaw, Jessica (2017). "Forgotten evidence: A mixed methods study of why sexual assault kits (SAKs) are not submitted for DNA forensic testing". Law and Human Behavior. 41 (5): 454–467. doi:10.1037/lhb0000252. PMID 28661168.
  6. ^ Shelby, Renee (December 24, 2018). "Whose rape kit? Stabilizing the Vitullo® Kit through positivist criminology and protocol feminism". Theoretical Criminology. 24 (4): 669–688. doi:10.1177/1362480618819805. S2CID 149793380.
  7. ^ Kennedy, Pagan (June 17, 2020). "The Rape Kit's Secret History". The New York Times. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  8. ^ Freudenheim, Betty (December 2, 1978). "Chicago Hospitals Are Using New Kit to Help Rape Victims Collect Evidence". The New York Times. p. 48. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  9. ^ "Marty Goddard Interview Transcript, February 26, 2003". The University of Akron Oral History of the Crime Victim Assistance Field: Video and Audio Archive. The University of Akron. Archived from the original on March 7, 2021. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  10. ^ Ravitz, Jessica (November 21, 2015). "The Story Behind the First Rape Kit". CNN. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  11. ^ "Forensic Science Central Forensic Science Glossary". Forensic Science Glossary. The Forensics Library. Archived from the original on March 13, 2012. Retrieved April 22, 2018.
  12. ^ "What is a Rape Kit?". Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. 2009. Retrieved April 22, 2018.

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