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Assessing Sexual Assault Response in a Jurisdiction

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Researchers and practitioners can assess and improve sexual assault response by understanding current practices and trends. Do you know how many sexual assault cases have charges filed in your jurisdiction? What is the rate of sexual assault kit submission? What is the prosecution rate? Explore tools that researchers and practitioners have used to answer these questions and improve their response to sexual assault. More resources coming soon!


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Case Connectivity Using DNA: How Testing Sexual Assault Kits Can Link Criminal Cases

Learn how to use DNA testing and CODIS to establish links between a sexual assault and other crimes that a person committed.
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Kansas SAKI Research: Testing Priorities & CODIS Follow-up

Learn how to recognize crossover offending, prioritize kit testing, and identify factors that have led to the accumulation of unsubmitted SAKs.
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Research Basics in SAKI: Developing Researcher-Practitioner Relationships

This webinar provides tips on how to create researcher-practitioner partnerships on the topic of sexual assault reform.
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Research in the SAKI - the Cuyahoga County Experience

Learn about Cuyahoga County's key research findings and how they’re used to inform and reform the way sexual assaults are investigated and prosecuted.
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SAK Research: Broadening Our Research Scope

This webinar shares information about SAK submission rates and case processing, which can be used to improve our understanding of sexual assault.
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Sexual Assault Serial Offender Research

This webinar explores contradictory findings to standard practices for investigating sexual assault and discusses the implications of this research.
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SAKI Cost Benefit Analysis

This brief explains the concept of a cost benefit analysis and how the costs savings of preventing another sexual assault significantly outweighs the costs associated with testing SAKs.
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Practitioner Evaluation Toolkit to Assess Sexual Assault Case Processing

The SANE Practitioner Toolkit provides step-by-step instructions and statistical programming to assess case processing and key outcomes.
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Research and Evaluation

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Research in the SAKI - the Cuyahoga County Experience

Our Mission

Funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative aims to create a coordinated community response that ensures just resolution to sexual assault cases. Through this program, funding is provided to support multidisciplinary community response teams engaged in the comprehensive reform of jurisdictions approaches to sexual assault cases resulting from evidence found in previously unsubmitted sexual assault kits.

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