Rape – Medical Protocols for Medical Exam (3 folders). Files include policies, guidelines, instructions, articles, notes, forms, questionnaires. Turner, Janne and Norman A. Harding: Rape. Medical and Legal Information for Richmond, December 1979; Virginia State Crime Commission: “Criminal Sexual Assault, A Handbook for Victims,” September 1979; Virginia State Crime Commission, Criminal Sexual Assault Study Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Treatment of Victims: “Hospital Protocol Treatment of Sexual Assault Victims,” undated; Hicks, Dorothy J.: “Rape: The Fastest Growing of the Violent Crimes,” undated; “Children’s Hospital National Medical Center Protocol for Sexual Abuse of Children,” (undated); copy of handwritten notes: OB-Gyn Res-Nurses, Emergency Room Medical College of Virginia: “Alleged Sexual Assault,” 1976; “Rape Evidence Collection Kit Protocol (undated), 1974 - 1980

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