Document Type
Podcast
Publication Date
Winter 1-10-2016
Abstract
Rachel Dissell, reporter for The Cleveland Plain Dealer for the past 13 years and human rights advocate, joined SWB on October 26, 2015 to discuss her work in the discovery of 4,000 untested rape kits in Cleveland, Ohio. Dissell discusses the complicated processes of collecting a rape kit, bringing a case to trial, and prosecuting rapists. She offers insights into institutional barriers that prevented the initial investigation of the rape kits and discusses the human rights of the victims, as their cases are brought to trial, sometimes twenty years after the crime was committed. Dissell provides SWB with a provocative discussion of human rights and sexual assault. Dissell’s work continues to shape practices of police departments and implementation of human rights of victims across the world.
Recommended Citation
Gran, Brian; Waltz, Margaret; and Caporale, Lacey, "Interview with Rachel Dissell - The Cleveland Rape Kit Case" (2016). Societies Without Borders Podcasts. 1.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb_podcasts/1