RT Article
T1 How Victims of Strangulation Survived: Enhancing the Admissibility of Victim Statements to the Police When Survivors are Reluctant to Cooperate
JF Violence against women
VO 28
IS 5
SP 1098
OP 1123
A1 Brady, Patrick Q.
A2 Fansher, Ashley K.
A2 Zedaker, Sara B.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1795544228
AB Holding perpetrators accountable for family violence is challenged when survivors are reluctant to testify. In light of recent Supreme Court precedents limiting the admissibility of statements to law enforcement in victimless prosecutions, the current study examined 130 cases of nonfatal strangulation (NFS) to determine whether case characteristics and themes across survivors’ on-scene statements can help prosecutors combat common legal defenses raised when victims are unavailable for trial. The history of prior violence and how only 6% of perpetrators stopped strangling victims on their own suggests that NFS complaints should be investigated as an attempted homicide until evidence suggests otherwise.
K1 Confrontation clause
K1 Forfeiture by wrongdoing
K1 Coercive Control
K1 domestic violence
K1 nonfatal strangulation
DO 10.1177/10778012211022772