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Executive Guidebook: Practical Approaches for Strengthening Law Enforcement's Response to Sexual Assault

Publication Date: 2018
File: LE_Response_to_Sexual_Assault_Executive_Guidebook.pdf
Abstract:
Most sexual assaults never even come to the attention of police. As recently as 2014, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics found that only one-third of rapes and sexual assaults were being reported to police. Media reports, congressional hearings, research, the change in the FBI definition of rape, rape kit backlogs, high-profile cases of sexual assault on college campuses, and Justice… (read more)
Tag(s):
criminal investigations, law enforcement, sexual assault, strategies, trauma informed, trauma-informed
Author(s):
Police Executive Research Forum (PERF)