Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Pilot Project: Report on Serial and One-Time Sexual Offenders

Authors

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

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Date

3-2016

Description

This brief provides a comparison of serial offenders and one-time offenders in terms of their demographics, criminal histories prior to and after the assault, relationship to the offender, and modus operandi in the 243 sexual assaults analyzed for the SAK Pilot Research Project. Serial offender status was determined based on the number of CODIS hits or sexual offense arrests in the offender’s criminal history.

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, "Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Pilot Project: Report on Serial and One-Time Sexual Offenders" (2016). Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Reports and Briefs. 6.
https://commons.case.edu/beguncenter-reports/6