Examining Charging Agreement between Police and Prosecutors in Rape Cases

Autor/inn/en	Holleran, David; Beichner, Dawn; Spohn, Cassia
Titel	Examining Charging Agreement between Police and Prosecutors in Rape Cases
Quelle	In: Crime & Delinquency, 56 (2010) 3, S.385-413 (29 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0011-1287
DOI	10.1177/0011128707308977
Schlagwörter	Rape; Juvenile Justice; Law Enforcement; Police; Decision Making; Guidelines; Lawyers; Court Litigation; Regression (Statistics); Missouri; Pennsylvania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Gesetzesvollzug; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Richtlinien; Lawyer; Rechtsanwalt; Rechtsstreit; Regression; Regressionsanalyse
Abstract	Although prior research has contributed to understanding of the factors that influence sexual assault case processing, it has primarily been viewed through the prosecutorial lens. The authors assert that a prosecutor's charging decision involves not only a decision to file or reject the charge but, assuming that the case is not rejected, also a decision regarding the charge that should be filed. Accordingly, they examined the congruence between the charge filed by police at arrest with the charge filed by the prosecutor. The results indicate that charging agreement between police and prosecutors in rape cases is governed by a legal sufficiency framework in Philadelphia, where a specialized charging unit receives cases after decisions to charge have been made, and a trial sufficiency framework in Kansas City, Missouri, where a specialized unit makes the decision to charge and uses vertical prosecution from screening through disposition. (Contains 1 table, 2 figures and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10