Policing and prosecuting sexual assault : inside the criminal justice system /
Why do few sexual assault claims lead to criminal convictions? Drawing on case files, as well as interviews with detectives and prosecutors, this is a study of the eventual results of sex crimes reported to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department...
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Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2014
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Policing and prosecuting sexual assault : |b inside the criminal justice system / |c Cassia Spohn and Katharine Tellis |
| 260 | |a Boulder : |b Lynne Rienner Publishers, |c 2014 | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 246 p. ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Sexual assault and the criminal justice system -- Policies and practices -- Detective and prosecutor perspectives -- Case attrition and case outcomes -- False reports -- The overuse and misuse of the exceptional clearance -- Intimate partner sexual assault -- Taking sexual assault seriously -- References | |
| 520 | |a Why do few sexual assault claims lead to criminal convictions? Drawing on case files, as well as interviews with detectives and prosecutors, this is a study of the eventual results of sex crimes reported to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) from January 2005 to December 2009. Spohn (criminality and criminal justice, Arizona State U.) and Tellis (criminal justice and criminalistics, California State U., Los Angeles) make use of a tools such as logistic regression analysis to produce this scientific analysis of both quantitative and qualitative data | ||
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