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PORTED, MOSTLY BECAUSE THE VICTIM FEARS THE TREAT.
MENT SHE WILL RECEIVE FROM THE POLICE AND PROSECU.
TORS. OF REPORTED CRIMES, ONLY 5 PERCENT LEAD TO
APPREHENSION OF A SUSPECT AND LESS THAN 3 PERCENT
TO A CONVICTION. RAPISTS ARE LARGELY INDISTINGUISH.
ABLE FROM THE REST OF THE POPULATION. THE VICTIM IS
GENERALLY AGE 20 OR YOUNGER: THE RAPIST AGE 30 OR
YOUNGER. MOST ATTACKS, INVOLVE STRANGERS OR
SLIGHT ACQUAINTANCES. MOST RAPES TAKE PLACE IN THE
VICTIM'S HOME OR ON THE STREET. SEVERE FORCE IS
USED IN 60 PERCENT OF ATTACKS: 'STRONG·ARM' FORCE IN
75 PERCENT. MOST INJURIES ARE MINOR, BUT THE PSYCHO.
LOGICAL AFTEREFFECTS ARE MAJOR. (RAPE.HOMICIDES
WERE SPECIFICALI. Y EXCLUDED FROM THIS S'rUDY.) THE
STUDY FOUND THAT THE AVERAGE POLICE OFFICER IS
GIVEN LITTLE TRAINING IN THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF
RAPE INVESTIGATION, YET THE INITIAL CONTACT IS THE
MOST IMPORTANT SOURCE OF EVIDENCE, FOR PROSECU.
TION. TRAINING FOR POLICE AND INVESTIGATORS IS SUG.
G~SiED. ;.. SERiES OF TRAiNING MANUALS IS BEING ISSUED
AS PARi OF THIS PROJECT. APPENDIXES PRESENT TABLES
ANALYZING DATA FROM POLl~~E REPORTS IN SEATTLE,
WASH., DETROIT, MICH., KANSAS CITY, MO., NEW ORLEANS,
LA., AND PHOENIX, ARIZ. GIVEN ARE NUMBER OF VICTIMS,
AGE, RACE, WITNESSES, LOCATION OF OFFENSE, WEAPONS
USED, TYPES OF RESISTANCE, INJURIES SUSTAINED. AND
AN ANALYSIS OF FOLLOWUP INVESTIGATION.
Sponlorlng AgInCy: US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LEAA NA.
TIONAL INSTITUTE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL
JUSTICE, 633 INDIANA AVENUE NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20531.
AnIIIbIIIty: GPO Stock Order No. 027'()()()-00625-6: NCJRS
MICROFICHE PROORAM.
4fi. i=OMCilLE RAPE-POLICE ADMINISTRATIVE AND POLICY
ISSUES-POLICE VOLUME.e. By C. ULIERO. BATTELLE
MEMORIAL LAW AND JUSTICE STUDY CENTER, "000 NE "1ST
STREET, SEATTLE WA 98105. 43 p. 1978. NCJ