Developing Empirically Informed Policies for Sexual Assault Kit DNA Testing: Is It Too Late to Test Kits Beyond the Statute of Limitations?

A growing body of research indicates that there are thousands of sexual assault kits (SAKs) in police property storage facilities that have never been submitted for DNA forensic testing. Some of these rape kits may be quite dated, and the statute of limitations (SOL) for prosecution of the case may...

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Authors: Campbell, Rebecca Moira (Author) ; Feeney, Hannah (Author) ; Fehler-Cabral, Giannina (Author) ; Pierce, Steven J. (Author) ; Sharma, Dhruv B. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Criminal justice policy review
Year: 2019, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-27
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Sexual assault kit
Forensic testing
DNA analysis
Statute of limitations
Continuation-ratio
Equivalence tests