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Changing the Criminal Justice System Response to Sexual Assault: An Empirical Study of a Participatory Action Research Project.

In jurisdictions throughout the United States, thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs; also known as a "rape kits") have not been submitted by the police for forensic DNA testing. DNA evidence may be helpful to sexual assault investigations and prosecutions by identifying perpetrators, revealing ser...

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Published in:American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 67; no. 1/2; pp. 166 - 179
Main Authors: Campbell, Rebecca, Fehler‐Cabral, Giannina, Pierce, Steven J., Sharma, Dhruv B., Shaw, Jessica, Horsford, Sheena, Feeney, Hannah
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2021
Subjects:
Detroit (Mich.)
Criminal justice system
Sexual assault
Community-based participatory research
Social problems
Longitudinal method
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost