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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Conviction rates"”.
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Relationship Between Conviction Rates of Child Abuse Perpetrators and Forensic Medical Examinations Performed By Trained Versus Non-Trained Examiners on Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
… or a non-trained forensic examiner. Court conviction data were obtained from the office of the district attorney in order to compare conviction rates to the forensic medical examining training. Of 1561 child abuse charts reviewed, 756 (48.4%) were sexual abuse cases. The major finding that …
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An exploration of the impact of LGBT+ representative mock-juries on mock-juror bias and guilty verdicts in transphobic hate crime cases
… (which research shows can negatively influence conviction rates). Three jury-decision-making studies explored participants’ decisions in group conditions described as LGBT+ (homosexually) diverse compared to heterosexual-cisgender groups. Study One showed significantly lower guilty verdict rates …
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A Case Study Describing the Experiences of the Sexually Abused Children and Non-Offending Parents who Attended the Multi-Disciplinary Investigation Team After Care Clinic
… After Care Clinic had outcomes that resulted in convictions.</p> <p><em>Recommendations for Further Study</em>. Further study is needed. Many victims and their families are devastated by the disclosure of sexual abuse and are in need of support. There have been multiple studies conducted on …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… to educate the general public about wrongful convictions (Kassin, 2017; Wells et al., 2000). Recently, programs depicting wrongful convictions, such as <em>Making a Murderer </em>(Demos & Ricciardi, 2015) and <em>When They See Us </em>(DuVernay, 2019) have garnered substantial viewership. …
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Towards a policy on naming and shaming of sex offenders in Botswana: lessons learnt from South Africa and United States of America
… are reported, the subsequent withdrawal and low conviction rates the register cannot be effective as sex offenders may never be registered. A comparative study undertaken between the United States of America and South Africa revealed that the register provides minimal benefits while significant …
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Talking about rape: a discursive study of convicted adult rapists' accounts of rape
… and least prosecuted of all violent crimes. Low conviction rates can be attributed in part to the failings of the criminal justice system including the infiltration of rape myths into said system and the ambiguity surrounding sexual consent. This thesis has drawn on data generated from eighteen …
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Rape and the Civil Law: An Alternative Route to Justice
… changes and political goodwill, attrition rates remain high and conviction rates low. In light of this, this thesis will explore the civil law, and in particular the trespass to the person torts, as an alternative route to justice. By placing the crime of rape within the framework of tort …
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Challening privacy: Using the national DNA database to support victims of sexed violence
… report 'Without Consent' highlights the low conviction rate for rape suggesting that this section of the criminal justice system is in a state of crisis. I will argue that it is necessary to utilise and develop the database as a tool for improved conviction rates and a possible reduction in …
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Outcomes of sexual assault court cases involving people with intellectual disabilities within the Western Cape: the association between conviction of the perpetrator and the complainants level of intellectual functioning
… justice. This results in low prosecution and conviction rates of sexual offenders in cases involving complainants with ID. There is limited information available about specific factors that predict a court case outcome of sexual abuse cases involving PWID. This correlational study reviewed …
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Evaluating the role of DNA evidence in sexual offence cases in Zambia between 2007 and 2014
… of defilement cases were taken to court, and convictions were achieved in only 13% of the cases reported to the police. Literature was reviewed to determine factors which contributed towards the resolution of criminal cases, and it was found that DNA evidence was prominent in resolving crimes, …
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Social Workers' experiences of forensic practice with victims of child sexual abuse in the City of Cape Town
The prevalent rates of sexual crimes against children in South Africa require forensic social work as a specialised field to assist the criminal justice system to respond effectively to victims' essential needs. This need has led to the employment of social workers in forensic units in the South …
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Early life lead exposure as a risk factor for aggressive and violent behaviours in young adults: A retrospective systematic review
… up to 63% of the variability in arrest or conviction rates after adjusting for co-variates (IRR for each 5µg/dl rise in blood lead level:1.1 to 1.13). Overall, using a random-effect model with restricted maximum likelihood estimation method, blood lead was associated with a higher risk of …
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Criminality of women in the 18th century in the South West of England
… the Person The first section of Chapter 4 concentrates on the record of assault and disorder found in the quarter sessions rolls and the assizes gaol books. It is argued that the increased use of recognizances to prosecute demonstrates the flexibility of the eighteenth-century criminal justice …