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 Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Implementation and Collaborative Process: What Works Best for the Criminal Justice System?
Award Information
Awardee
              Michigan State University
Award #
              2010-WG-BX-0010
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    East Lansing, MI
Awardee County
              Ingham
Congressional District
              8
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2010
Total funding (to date)
              $278,713
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 10 ORE Research and Evaluation on VAW: Sexual Violence, Teen Dating Violence and Stalking
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2010, $278,713)
This project will conduct two studies examining how differences in SARTs' structure and functioning impact their ability to increase reporting and prosecution rates and how the heterogeneity in SARTs' structure and functioning relate to features of their collaborative process, and in turn, how these process factors relate to SARTs' effectiveness at increasing reporting and prosecution rates. Findings from this study can be used to develop recommendations for SARTs' practice, and inform the efforts of national, state, and local organizations that provide technical assistance to SARTs.
In the first study, a national-scale study of SARTs will be conducted to identify patterns of SART structure and functioning, and examine how these patterns relate to perceived effectiveness of increasing reporting and prosecution rates. Study 1 will utilize random sampling to obtain a national sample of SARTs. Key informants (i.e., SART leaders) will be asked to report on their SARTs' membership, goals, structure, and activities, and its effectiveness with respect to reporting and prosecution. Next, empirically based patterns of SART implementation will be derived (i.e., different combinations of membership, goals, structure, and activities) using cluster analysis and examine which patterns are more or less effective. The second study will examine how different patterns of SART structure and functioning relate to differences in the collaborative process, and how the collaborative process relates to perceived effectiveness in increasing reporting and prosecution rates. Study 2 examines two key features of the collaborative process: collaborative climate (i.e., inclusivity of diverse perspectives) and patterns of relationships among participating SART organizations (e.g., pattern of trusting relationships among stakeholders). To capture the diverse perspectives of SART members, all members of selected SARTs will be interviewed to examine these collaborative processes in detail. Because full member data collection is labor-intensive, a subsample of SARTs that participated in Study 1 will be systematically selected to explore how structure/functioning patterns relate to collaborative processes, and how collaborative process relates to perceived effectiveness. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      A Qualitative Examination of Collaborative Infrastructure within Sexual Assault Response Teams
                  Using Social Network Analysis To Identify Successful Relationship Patterns Within Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)
                  The Influence of Community Sociocultural Context on Creating an Effective, Coordinated Response to Sexual Assault
                  The Most Important Features for an Effective Sexual Assault Response Team
                  Improving the Community Response to Sexual Assault: An Empirical Examination of the Effectiveness of Sexual Assault Response Teams (SARTs)
                  Coordinated Community Efforts To Respond to Sexual Assault: A National Study of Sexual Assault Response Team Implementation
                  Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Functioning and Effectiveness: Findings From the National SART Project
                  Coordinated Community Efforts To Respond to Sexual Assault: A National Study of Sexual Assault Response Team Implementation
                  Sexual Assault Response Team (SART) Implementation and Collaborative Process: What Works Best for the Criminal Justice System?




  
Grant-Funded Datasets
        
                      http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34795.v1

  
Date Created: September 16, 2010
    
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