Analysis of Cuyahoga County’s Procedures for Alleviating the Backlog of Sexual Assault Kits

This purpose of this brief is to describe the data, sampling methods, and data limitations of the SAK Pilot Research Project. For more information about the SAK Task Force and its process, see “The Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force: Describing the Process of Testing, Investigating, and Prosecuting Unsubmitted SAKs” and “The Cuyahoga County Sexual Assault Kits (SAK) Pilot Research Project: Data and Methodology.” The findings from this project are presented in a series of brief reports written by the research team at the Begun Center.

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Author: Rachel Lovell, PhD, Fred Butcher, PhD, Daniel Flannery, PhD

Provider: Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education

Publication Date: 2016

Publication Type: PDF