Analysis of Cuyahoga County's Procedures for Alleviating the Backlog of Sexual Assault Kits: Data and Methodology

Authors

Rachel Lovell, Case Western Reserve University
Fred Butcher, Case Western Reserve University
Daniel Flannery, Case Western Reserve UniversityFollow

Files

Date

3-2016

Description

This brief provides a description of the data, sampling, methods, and data limitations of the SAK Pilot Research Project. Utilizing data provided by the Prosecutor’s office via an electronic database of documents used for prosecution, the Begun Center research team gleaned information about the investigative process and entered these data into a quantitative database. The Pilot Research Project focuses on unsubmitted SAKs with completed investigations as of August 2015.

Keywords

sexual violence, sexual assault kits, Cuyahoga County (Ohio)

Disciplines

Criminology and Criminal Justice

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Recommended Citation

Lovell, Rachel; Butcher, Fred; and Flannery, Daniel, "Analysis of Cuyahoga County's Procedures for Alleviating the Backlog of Sexual Assault Kits: Data and Methodology" (2016). Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Reports and Briefs. 1.
https://commons.case.edu/beguncenter-reports/1