Médecins légistes et policiers face aux expertises médicolégales des victimes de violences sexuelles

Abstract

This paper questions forensic reports of victims of sexual violence and the relations between police officers, who ask for those reports, and the forensic doctors who write them. The analysis distinguishes two cases: when the report mentions the existence of lesions, and when it doesn't. This last case might disrupt the relations between forensic doctors and police officers, and highlights the existence of two different ways of seeing the victim among those two occupational groups.