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The Impact of Common Law and Reform Rape Statutes on Prosecution: An Empirical Study
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This article is published in Washington Law Review.The article was published on 1980-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Statute & Common law.read more
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The Factors Related to Rape Reporting Behavior and Arrest: New Evidence from the National Crime Victimization Survey
TL;DR: The authors examined the factors related to the probability of a rape victimization being reported to police and the subsequent probability of an arrest being mode, the contextual characteristics examined were the victimoffender relationship, injuries sustained by victims, weapon use by offenders, marital status and age of victim, and location of occurrence.
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Rape and Attrition in the Legal Process: A Comparative Analysis of Five Countries
Kathleen Daly,Brigitte Bouhours +1 more
TL;DR: Despite legal reforms, there has been little improvement in police, prosecutor, and court handling of rape and sexual assault as discussed by the authors, despite legal reform, there have been little improvements in police and prosecutor handling of sexual assault.
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Prosecuting sexual assault: A comparison of charging decisions in sexual assault cases involving strangers, acquaintances, and intimate partners
Cassia Spohn,David Holleran +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of victim, suspect, and case characteristics on charging decisions in each type of case and found that the impact of victim characteristics was confined to cases involving acquaintances and intimate partners.
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The Criminal Justice System’s Response to Sexual Violence:
Cassia Spohn,Katharine Tellis +1 more
TL;DR: The authors synthesize research examining the criminal justice system’s response to sexual assault by examining research on the victim's decision to report the crime to the police and the findings of sexual assault case processing research.
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The effect of evidence factors and victim characteristics on prosecutors' charging decisions in sexual assault cases
Jeffrey W. Spears,Cassia Spohn +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the only significant predictors of charging were victim characteristics, such as the victim's moral character and her behavior at the time of the incident, and that these victim characteristics influenced charging regardless of the strength of evidence in the case or whether the crime was classified as an aggravated or a simple sexual assault.