Scotland Country Report. Different Systems, Similar Outcomes? Tracking Attrition in Reported Rape Cases in 11 European Countries

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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10900/87323
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-dspace-873239
http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-28709
Dokumentart: Report (Bericht)
Date: 2009
Language: English
Faculty: Kriminologisches Repository
Department: Kriminologie
DDC Classifikation: 360 - Social problems and services; associations
Keywords: Vergewaltigung , Verurteilung , Schottland
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Abstract:

This report looks at attrition in Scotland. Attrition – the process by which the majority of reported rape cases fail to reach trial – has become a critical research and policy issue. In virtually all countries where major studies have been published, substantial increases in reporting have not been matched by rises in prosecutions, resulting in a falling conviction rate. Whilst this pattern has been documented in two previous Daphne projects (Regan & Kelly, 2003), it was not universal across Europe. This report forms part of a wider project funded by the EU Commission which is analysing the similarities and differences in attrition processes across 11 countries with varying judicial systems and socio-legal cultures; it is the first study to do this.

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