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Visualizing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Cuyahoga County’s Sexual Assault Kit Backlog
12021-01-26T14:47:23+00:00Charlie Harper296dda6727d6bc9ef05d61a7213be572a58f52bd1056Rachell Lovell and Misty Luminais (Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research & Education)plain2021-05-18T11:55:14+00:00Charlie Harper296dda6727d6bc9ef05d61a7213be572a58f52bd
Rachell Lovell and Misty Luminais (Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research & Education)
Freedman Faculty Fellows 2017–2018, 2018–2019
Rachel Lovell and Misty Luminais, senior research associates at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Education and Research, have collected data from more than 500 backlogged sexual assault kits from Cuyahoga County dating from 1993 to 2009. Using The Freedman Center’s ArcGIS visual mapping software, Lovell and Luminais explored the spatial relationships between attackers, victims and the surrounding environment. By exploring the geographical data and making it available to the public, they aim to be a resource to criminology circles where data at this level of detail has not been seen before.
