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How to Notify Victims about Sexual Assault Kit Evidence- Insight and Recommendations from Victims and Professionals
Abstract: This report describes research on victim and professional perspectives on the delivery of victim notification procedures, implementation of new victim notification processes, victim engagement within the criminal justice system, and recommendations for... (read more)
Publication Date: 2015
File: IDVSA_victim.pdf
Key Components of Building a Successful Victim Notification Protocol
Abstract: A goal of the Houston Sexual Assault Kit (SAK) Action Research Project was to collaborate across disciplines to create an innovative, sensitive, and trauma-informed model of victim notification. Thus, members of an interprofessional working group... (read more)
Publication Date: 2015
File: IDVSA_success.pdf
Sexual Assault Victims' Experiences of Notification after a CODIS hit
Abstract: In Houston, victim notification involves reestablishing contact with victims whose cases are re-opened for investigation as a result of a match in the law enforcement database Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), from victims' recently tested sexual... (read more)
Publication Date: 2015
File: IDVSA_CODIS.pdf