Download or read book The Phenomenon of Untested Sexual Assault Kits written by Darlene Brothers-Gray and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the phenomenon of unsubmitted and untested sexual assault kits (SAKs). Beginning with an analysis of the background of the study, it examines feminist theory, functionalism, and resource dependence theory in relation to the phenomenon. The book highlights the existence of scholarly literature on the topic of sexual assault and what sexual assault encompasses, leading to the problem of unsubmitted and untested SAKs. Sexual assault is a global problem involving women and college students. Unfortunately, there are 400,000 SAKs nationwide in the US that remain unsubmitted or untested, therefore indicating serious gaps in the criminal justice system. The book shows the need for stakeholders who have an interest in the topic to collectively engage to acknowledge the systemic gaps, and provide resolution so that officials properly utilize SAKs to apprehend and empower victims to live healthy and functional lives. It recognizes and portrays the results of the study and suggests recommendation for future research. The book will be an instrumental tool for law enforcement officers, sexual assault detectives, forensic scientists, and sexual assault nurse examiners to understand the perceptions of law enforcement as to what caused the phenomenon and how to prevent it in the future.
Download or read book Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape written by Rachel E. Lovell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the current state of untested sexual assault kit research and highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the present, and the future of our collective response to rape. This book is the first to address the most critical topics related to untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together leading US scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and survivors. In a series of well-researched and thoughtful thematic chapters, the book explores the current state of knowledge related to untested kits, survivors, and perpetrators, while also documenting fundamental and necessary changes in how societal systems respond to rape. It provides an opportunity to learn from our past, highlight what we could do differently now, and envision a better future for victims of rape and those tasked with ensuring justice. It may also serve as a cautionary tale for those jurisdictions that have yet to face their backlog or who have failed to embrace the practice and policy changes that have emerged from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape is essential reading for practitioners (including law enforcement, prosecutors, victim advocates, mental health providers, forensic nurses, and forensic scientists), stakeholders, legislators, and policy makers. It will also be of interest to upper-level students and scholars working on interpersonal violence, gender-based violence, and forensic nursing in social/behavioral science fields.
Download or read book Testing Justice written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And recommendations -- Sexual violence in Los Angeles County -- Untested rape kits in crime laboratories -- Untested rape kits in police storage -- Human rights law and responses to sexual violence -- Conclusions.
Download or read book Sexual Assault Kits SAKs and the Backlog of Untested Sexual Assault Evidence In Brief R44237 written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book I Used to Think the Law Would Protect Me written by Sarah Tofte and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methodology -- Recommendations -- Keeping track of sexual violence in Illinois -- Rape kit evidence collection in Illinois -- Untested rape kits in Illinois police storage facilities -- Untested rape kits in Illinois crime labs -- Conclusion.
Download or read book Hiding in Plain Sight written by Luis I. Espinoza and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Untested sexual assault evidence is being discovered in police evidence rooms all across the country. It is unknown how many unanalyzed sexual assault kits (SAKs) there are nationwide. There are many reasons for this, but one is that tracking and counting SAKs is an antiquated process in many U.S. jurisdictions. Certainly, there may be legitimate reasons why some of the recently discovered unanalyzed SAKs were not sent to a lab. Not all evidence collected in an alleged sexual assault is going to be probative. For example, in cases where consent is an issue, detectives may consider that the SAK does not add any important information to the investigation. This book analyzes this issue and offers a variety of ramifications for the police and crime laboratories, for the courts, and for the victims.
Download or read book Do You Wish to Prosecute the Person who Assaulted You written by Hannah Feeney and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rape Scandal that Puts You at Risk written by Linda Fairstein and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A harrowing investigation into law enforcement’s failure to process hundreds of thousands of rape kits across America—allowing many rapists to walk free. In 2011, advocacy groups estimated that up to 250,000 rape kits sat untested in police storage across the country. These kits, some from crimes dating as far back as the mid-1990s, represent a disturbing breakdown in law enforcement that has allowed many violent criminals to remain on the streets. In some cases, rape victims are kept in the dark about the investigations into the crimes committed against them. Legal expert Linda Fairstein illustrates this injustice with the story of a Los Angeles woman whose experience, Fairstein writes, “is a tragic example of the outrageous backlog of untested rape kits that has existed nationwide for more than a decade.” In The Rape Scandal that Puts You at Risk, Fairstein lays bare these failures of law enforcement and issues a rallying cry for women everywhere to demand change. Originally published in Cosmopolitan, this essay is now available in digital format for the first time and features a new introduction by the author.
Download or read book Sexual Assault and Harassment in America written by Sarah Koon-Magnin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging resource uses evidence-based documentation to examine claims and beliefs—and provide the facts—about sexual assault and harassment and other forms of sexual violence in the United States. Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. They do so to give readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions—and confirming the factual validity of other assertions—that have gained traction in AmericA&Rsquo;s political and cultural discourse. Ultimately, this series has been crafted to give readers the tools for a fuller understanding of issues, events, policies, and laws that occupy center stage in American life and politics. This volume in the series addresses the issue of sexual violence in the U.S. It includes chapters devoted to quantifying the extent of the problems of sexual assault and harassment; demographic groups most likely to experience sexual violence; physical, emotional, and societal impacts of sexual assault; how investigations of sex-related charges are conducted; laws and policies pertaining to both victims and offenders; and sexual violence prevention and response services outside of the criminal justice system.
Download or read book Untested Sexual Assault Kits and Sexual Assault Survivors Decisions to Re engage with the Criminal Legal System written by McKenzie Javorka and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual assault is a serious form of interpersonal violence that results in significant negative impacts to survivors' health, well-being, and sense of personal safety. Survivors may report the assault to police to pursue redress for this harm through the criminal legal system. However, police typically take few steps to investigate sexual assaults and routinely do not submit sexual assault evidence kits (SAKs) collected during post-assault medical forensic exams for forensic DNA analysis. Large stockpiles of previously unsubmitted SAKs have been discovered across the United States, which has prompted some police agencies to begin submitting these kits for testing and reopening sexual assault cases for prosecution. In a process referred to as victim notification, police may contact survivors years after they reported the assault to inform them that their SAK has now been tested and ask if they want to participate in the re-investigation of their case. Many survivors choose to re-engage with the criminal legal system following victim notifications; however, survivors' decision-making around this choice remains understudied.In this study, I explored why survivors whose SAKs had been part of the backlog of untested kits in Detroit, Michigan, chose to re-engage with police following a victim notification. I conducted a qualitative secondary analysis of data collected via semi-structured interviews with 32 sexual assault survivors who received a SAK victim notification that their cases were being reopened. Participants were all women and most identified as Black or African American (88%). All survivors in this sample chose to participate in the reinvestigation and prosecution of their cases. Data were analyzed using Miles et al.'s (2020) qualitative analytic framework to answer three focal research questions: 1) what were survivors' motivations for re-engaging; 2) what were survivors' concerns about re-engaging; and 3) how did the reactions of other people, such as family and friends, influence survivors' decision-making regarding reengagement?Survivors described three key motivations for re-engaging with the investigation and prosecution of their cases: protection of others and prevention of future assaults; a desire for justice for themselves through acknowledgement of the harm done to them and incarceration of the assailant; and a desire for closure. Participants' concerns about re-engaging included fears for their safety, concerns about the emotional toll of participating, distrust of the police, and guilt about prosecuting the assailant years after the assault. Analyses also revealed an emergent finding regarding the influence of police's supportive responses during the notification on participants' decision-making. Whereas participants did not appear to be directly influenced in their decision-making by the reactions of friends and family members, they did appear to be impacted by the supportiveness of police, especially if that support helped to address some of their concerns about participating in the case.Findings from this study expand upon prior research on survivors' experiences with SAK victim notifications and their decision-making regarding re-engagement with the criminal legal system. Despite substantial concerns regarding their safety, emotional wellbeing, and the criminal legal system itself, survivors were motivated to re-engage to prevent others from experiencing similar harm, as well as to seek justice and closure for themselves. This study has implications for future research on justice, accountability, and healing for survivors of sexual violence. Findings from the current study can also inform practice and policy related to SAK victim notifications in Detroit and other jurisdictions across the country. Results may be useful for informing the development of victim notification protocols and specialized training for investigators, as well as for policymakers and community activists seeking to enact systems change in how communities respond to sexual violence.
Download or read book Report on the MN Law Enforcement Agency Survey of Untested Rape Kits as Required by SF0878 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Justice for Sexual Assault Victims written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rape and Sexual Assault written by Alison E. Hatch and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative one-stop resource helps readers understand the problem of sexual assault in the United States, including societal factors, notorious cases, laws and practices, victim advocacy and reform efforts, and keys to recovery. It discusses who is being victimized, who is perpetrating the offenses, and what can be done (and is being done) to reduce rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment in homes and communities across America. The volume also explores the role that investigative shortcomings and rape culture have played in facilitating sexual assault and abuse, and how shifts in attitude and policy could combat this devastating crime.
Download or read book Amendment to Report on the MN Law Enforcement Agency Survey of Untested Rape Kits as Required by SF0878 written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) received an amended Inventory from the Minneapolis Police Department on February 24, 2020. This inventory included an additional 1,457 untested rape kits in the possession of this agency. The reported offense dates for these additional kits ranged from 1988 through 2015. The reported reason for not submitting for all kits on the amended inventory was listed as Other - Unknown. Appendices C and D have been revised to include this additional information.
Download or read book Ted Bundy and The Unsolved Murder Epidemic written by Matt DeLisi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the life and crimes of Ted Bundy. It seeks to reconcile the contradictions and controversies about his life that underscore the broader US unsolved murder problem, one that is estimated at between 250,000 to 350,000 open, unresolved, or cold cases. The incidence of crime is far greater than is captured by official statistics; most offenses are never detected, a concept known as the dark figure of crime which is explored here. Drawing on 25 years of practitioner, research, and consultant experiences with the most violent criminals, this book offers solutions toward clearing the current backlog of unsolved murders in the United States many of which were never reported and disproportionately perpetrated by offenders like Bundy. This compelling book speaks to students, academics and readers interested in true crime, serial murder, homicide and criminal justice.
Download or read book Clothing Damage Analysis and the Phenomenon of the False Sexual Assault written by JM. Taupin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper describes three recent false sexual assaults examined at the Victoria Forensic Science Centre laboratory where clothing damage analysis assisted in the resolution of the case. Suspected false reports of sexual assaults are often sensitive cases with little other forensic evidence. Any evidential value that can be obtained is thus valuable in order to minimize any ordeal to the complainant and any suspect and to conserve valuable resources. The findings illustrate the application of clothing damage analysis in a cross section of confirmed false sexual assault reports and the fact that the forensic examiner should be aware of the potential evidential value of this kind of analysis. Furthermore, the corroboration of a victim's scenario when the investigator has doubts may be no less valuable as it may minimize the adversarial ordeal that is often faced by a rape victim.
Download or read book Crowdsourcing the Law written by Francine Banner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the general public may feel uncomfortable discussing sexual assault and violence with neighbors or coworkers, the popularity of Twitter, Snapchat, and a host of other social media platforms suggests that we are not shy about expressing our opinions online. Debates that just a few years ago would have taken place in real life have been relocated online; allowing eager commenters to share their thoughts on guilt or innocence with legions of virtual strangers. Crowdsourcing the Law explores how everyday participants interpret and apply law in the influential online court of public opinion. Engaging a multidisciplinary, case study approach, the book analyzes social media comments about public figures such as Bill Cosby, Brock Turner, and Harvey Weinstein to address ambitious questions like: How are rape myths being challenged, reinforced, and reinvented on social media? What is the promise and peril of the #MeToo movement for transforming the law? And can due process be afforded in the face of an increasingly powerful virtual jury?
