Examining Criminal Justice Responses to and Help-Seeking Patterns of Sexual Violence Survivors with Disabilities, United States, 2008-2013

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Label

Examining Criminal Justice Responses to and Help-Seeking Patterns of Sexual Violence Survivors with Disabilities, United States, 2008-2013

Creator

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]
• Browne, Angela

Author

• Browne, Angela

Contributor

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor]

Subject

• disabilities
• disabled persons
• machine
• rape
• rape statistics
• admin
• sexual assault
• sexual exploitation
• sexual harassment
• sexual abuse
• courts
• crime
• crime reporting

Genre

• machine
• admin

Summary

These data are part of NACJD's Fast Track Release and are distributed as they are received from the data depositor. The files have been zipped by NACJD for release, but not checked or processed except for the removal of direct identifiers. Users should refer to the accompany readme file for a brief description of the files available with this collection and consult the investigator if further information is needed. This mixed methods study examined the criminal justice outcomes and help-seeking experiences of sexual assault survivors with disabilities. The specific objectives of this study were to: <list type="bulleted"><itm>Describe criminal justice reporting of sexual assault against persons with disabilities (e.g., number and source of reports, characteristics or survivors and perpetrators, case characteristics, and case outcomes)</itm><itm>Assess how cases of sexual assault survivors with disabilities proceeded through the criminal court system.</itm><itm>Describe help-seeking experiences of sexual assault survivors with disabilities from formal and informal sources, including influences on how and where they seek help, their experiences in reporting, barriers to reporting, and outcome of this reporting, drawn from interviews with community based survivors and service providers.</itm></list>The study contains one data file called 'Data_Sexual Violence Survivors with Disabilities.sav'. This file has 26 variables and 417 cases