Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Sexual assault : an exploration of survivors' decisions not to report to police / by Debra Joy Tomlinson.

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Canadian Policing Research

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-136).

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1 online resource (xiv, 140 pages)

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"September, 2000"
Thesis (M.S.W.)--University of Calgary, 2000.

Summary

"According to a 1993 Statistics Canada study only 6% of adult female sexual assault survivors report to police. Based on interviews with nine adult female non-reporting sexual assault survivors, this study explores the decision-making process and factors that influence a survivor's decision not to report to police. The emerging themes and categories, as well as individual stories of sexual assault, are revealed through the verbatim descriptions provided by the research participants. The study findings are organized into an ecological model that depicts the complex interactions and relationships between intrapersonal, interpersonal, institutional and ideological factors and sexual assault survivors' decisions not to report to police."--Abstract.

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