Prosecutorial justifications for sexual assault case rejection: Guarding the "gateway to justice"

By C. Spohn, D. Beichner, Erika Davis-Frenzel. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Law, Sociology and Political Science

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• Characteristics associated with rape attrition and the role played by scepticism or legal rationality by investigators and prosecutors (2007, background): “Similarly, Spohn et al. (2001) acknowledge that personal beliefs are liable to impact on the decisions made.”