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Date
3-2016
Description
As of 2015, all 4,845 unsubmitted SAKs from 1993 to 2010 from Cuyahoga County have been submitted to BCI for testing. To assist the Prosecutor’s Office in streamlining their efforts, researchers at the Begun Center mapped each step of the process from Testing to Disposition. Utilizing data provided by CCPO, this brief illustrates how SAKs move through the four main phases of this process—Testing, Investigation, Prosecution, and Disposition. As a SAK proceeds through the process it (potentially) changes from (1) a SAK, (2) an investigation, (3) a prosecution, and (4) a final disposition.
Keywords
sexual violence, sexual assault kits, Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
Disciplines
Criminology and Criminal Justice
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Recommended Citation
Lovell, Rachel; Butcher, Fred; and Flannery, Daniel, "The Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Task Force : Describing the Process of Testing, Investigating, and Prosecuting Unsubmitted SAKs" (2016). Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education Reports and Briefs. 7.
https://commons.case.edu/beguncenter-reports/7