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• Title:Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Study, Los Angeles, California, 1982-2010 [electronic resource] Joseph Peterson, Denise C. Herz, Donald Johnson, Lisa Graziano, Taly Oehler
  
• Edition:2013-11-20
  
• Published/Created:Ann Arbor, Mich. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor] 2013
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource
  
• Links:Online dataset
  

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• Notes:Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2019-06-13.
  California
  Los Angeles
  United States
  All sexual assault cases in Los Angeles, California, between 1982 and 2009 with backlogged sexual assault kits collected with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department (LASD) and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and all non-backlogged LASD and LAPD sexual assault cases that were tested between January 1, 2009 and August 1, 2010.
  
• Type of file:Numeric
  
• Access and use:Access restricted by licensing agreement. AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.
• Summary:The study addressed the growing problem of untested sexual assault kits that have been collected and stored in law enforcement agencies' storage facilities and forensic laboratories throughout the nation. Project researchers randomly collected a 20 percent sample of the 10,895 backlogged sexual assault cases (cases with untested sexual assault kits) at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and Los Angeles Sherriff's Department (LASD) to be tested and to evaluate the scientific results achieved by private testing laboratories. After sorting through files and eliminating many due to time constraints, case count fluctuations throughout the course of the data collection, the inability to locate every case file, and removing cases due to the suspects' age, the researchers collected and coded sexual assault case information on 1,948 backlogged cases from 1982 to 2009. Data were also collected on 371 non-backlogged sexual assault cases with sexual assault kits that were tested between January 1, 2009 and August 1, 2010. Data collection focused on the respective agencies' crime laboratory files and the DNA reports submitted by outside private testing laboratories. Data collection tools for this project focused on key descriptive, investigative, critical event times/dates, physical evidence, and analytical tests performed on the evidence. Records yielded information on DNA profiles and related Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) submission activity. Criminal justice case disposition information was also collected on a total of 742 cases including a sample of 371 backlogged cases and the 371 non-backlogged cases to examine the impact of evidence contained in sexual assault kits on criminal justice disposition outcomes. The resulting 2,319 case dataset, which is comprised of 1,948 backlogged cases and 371 non-backlogged cases, contains 377 variables relating to victim, suspect, and crime characteristics, laboratory information and testing results, CODIS information, and criminal justice dispositions.Cf: http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33841.v1
  
• Other formats:Also available as downloadable files.
  
• Format:Computer File
• Series:ICPSR 33841
  ICPSR (Series) 33841
  
• Contents:Dataset
  
• Subjects:assault
  crime laboratories
  criminal investigations
  disposition (legal)
  evidence
  forensic medicine
  forensic sciences
  rape
  sex offenses
  sexual abuse
  sexual assault
  NACJD X. Victimization
  ICPSR XVII.E. Social Institutions and Behavior, Crime and the Criminal Justice System
  NACJD VI. Criminal Justice System
  NACJD IV. Court Case Processing
  NACJD XXI. Prostitution, Human Trafficking, and Sex Crimes
  
• Genre/Form:Data sets.
  
• Also listed under:Peterson, Joseph California State University-Los Angeles
  Herz, Denise C. California State University-Los Angeles
  Johnson, Donald California State University-Los Angeles
  Graziano, Lisa California State University-Los Angeles
  Oehler, Taly California State University-Los Angeles
  Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.