The Link Between the SAMFE and Police Perceptions of Victim Credibility

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Feminist Criminology Pub Date : 2021-04-24 DOI:10.1177/15570851211012468

Lilly Yu, Kelly A. Walsh, Janine M. Zweig

引用次数: 2

Abstract

While research has documented the evidentiary significance of sexual assault medical forensic exams (SAMFEs) to case processing, there has been less focus on SAMFEs’ relevance to extralegal case characteristics. This study, through focus groups with police officers and prosecutors, illuminates the link between two important case processing factors: the SAMFE and perceptions of victim credibility. The majority of respondent narratives about the utility of the SAMFE point to how it strengthens or weakens perceptions of victim credibility. This link points to the SAMFE’s important role in early case processing before investigators send DNA evidence for forensic testing.

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SAMFE与警察对受害者可信度的看法之间的联系

虽然研究已经证明了性侵犯医学法医检查（SAMFE）对案件处理的证据意义，但很少关注SAMFE与法外案件特征的相关性。这项研究通过与警察和检察官组成的焦点小组，阐明了两个重要的案件处理因素之间的联系：SAMFE和受害者可信度。大多数受访者关于SAMFE效用的叙述都指出了它是如何加强或削弱受害者可信度的。这种联系表明，在调查人员发送DNA证据进行法医测试之前，SAMFE在早期案件处理中发挥着重要作用。

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Feminist Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

4.80

自引率

12.00%

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期刊介绍： The main aim of Feminist Criminology is to focus on research related to women, girls and crime. The scope includes research on women working in the criminal justice profession, women as offenders and how they are dealt with in the criminal justice system, women as victims, and theories and tests of theories related to women and crime. The feminist critique of criminology incorporates a perspective that the paths to crime differ for males and females, thus research that uses sex as a control variable often fails to illuminate the factors that predict female criminality. This journal will highlight research that takes a perspective designed to demonstrate the gendered nature of crime and responses to crime.