Pathway to justice: Examining the attrition of child sexual abuse cases
| dc.contributor.author | Christensen, L. S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-06T20:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-12-06T20:00:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In Australia, similar to other Western societies, the conviction rate for child sexual abuse (CSA) cases is low. Case attrition can occur at any time from the initial report to authorities through to an outcome in court. Prior literature that has explored the attrition (and case progression) of CSA cases has focused on the laying of charges and prosecution stages. To date, the research has not focused on the earlier stages of the criminal justice system. The overarching aim of the current thesis was to address four major gaps identified in the research: (1) the need to understand better the factors that contribute to the attrition of CSA cases from the perspective of professionals working in the system and develop further ideas for improvements to the criminal justice system; (2) to identify the various points of attrition for CSA cases, the percentage of CSA cases that resulted in attrition, and the reasons for attrition at each of these points; (3) to explore the characteristics associated with attrition at the earlier stages of the criminal justice system; and (4) to explore the characteristics associated with specific reasons for attrition at the earlier stages of the criminal justice system. Each of these gaps was addressed in one of the four studies presented in the current thesis. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Christensen, L. S. (2016). Pathway to justice: Examining the attrition of child sexual abuse cases (No. PhD.). Deakin University. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30088888/christensen-pathwayjustice-2016A.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11212/3080 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Deakin University | en_US |
| dc.subject | criminal justice system | en_US |
| dc.subject | Australia | en_US |
| dc.subject | International Resources | en_US |
| dc.subject | conviction | en_US |
| dc.subject | child sexual abuse | en_US |
| dc.subject | case attrition | en_US |
| dc.title | Pathway to justice: Examining the attrition of child sexual abuse cases | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |