They are used to collect evidence of sexual attacks to test rape kits
Jaclyn Nash / American History Museum
Secret history of the rape kit
Pagan Kennedy (Vintage Books)
While you are writing InventologyThe inventions that create social change and the people behind them, Kennedy Paganak “man described men like a piece of technology designed to hold women,” the rape kit.
But who invented it? The newspaper report credited Chicago Police Louis R. Vitullo in the city’s crime laboratory, but some contacts mentioned a woman who collaborated. Kennedy researched, and …
