The Determinants of Policing Unfounding and Prosecutorial Case Rejections in San Diego, California Sexual Assault, Cases

The vast amount of research that has been done on sexual assault in the past thirty years has yielded a great amount of knowledge about the phenomenon of sexual assault and the way the criminal justice system responds to it. One hypothesis that emerges from this literature is that certain cases of s...

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Autor principal: Keller, Elizabeth M. (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Libro
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Publicado: 2003
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