Rachel Lovell

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Cleveland State University

United States

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Rachel Lovell is an Assistant Professor at Cleveland State University, specializing in the areas of sexual violence, victimization, and the use of sexual assault kits. Her recent research has explored the therapy experiences of sexual assault survivors, the barriers to obtaining sexual assault kits, and the geographic factors influencing rape incidents. Additionally, she employs machine learning techniques to analyze police reports and enhance understanding of victim credibility in investigative outcomes.

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University of Westminster

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“There’s Gotta’ be a Better way … There was Nothing Empowering About any of it”: Survivors’ and Stakeholders’ Narratives on the Barriers and Facilitators of Getting a Sexual Assault Kit

Examining male sexual violence and victimization using previously untested sexual assault kits (via the SAK Initiative): Part 2, Offenders

Examining male sexual violence and victimization using previously untested sexual assault kits (via the SAK Initiative): part 1, male victims

Neighborhood level predictors of rape: A novel spatial regression approach

Sexual Assault Survivors’ Individual and Group Therapy Experiences at Rape Crisis Center

Using machine learning to assess rape reports: Sentiment analysis detection of officers' “signaling” about victims' credibility

Using machine learning to assess rape reports: “Signaling” words about victims' credibility that predict investigative and prosecutorial outcomes

Detailing the process of identifying and the outcomes of efforts to address lawfully “owed” DNA

Examining Walking-Waiting Sexual Assaults from Previously Untested Sexual Assault Kits: The Intersection of Stranger and Outdoor Sexual Assaults

Understanding the Geography of Rape through the Integration of Data: Case Study of a Prolific, Mobile Serial Stranger Rapist Identified through Rape Kits

Distorted Reality: A Commentary on DiMarco et al. (2022) and the Question of Male Sexual Victimization

Addressing uncertainty in census estimates

The case for “investigate all”: Assessing the cost‐effectiveness of investigating no CODIS hit cases in a sexual assault kit initiative

The Bureaucratic Burden of Identifying your Rapist and Remaining “Cooperative”: What the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Tells us about Sexual Assault Case Attrition and Outcomes

Dissemination and Impact Amplified: How a Researcher–Reporter Collaboration Helped Improve the Criminal Justice Response to Victims With Untested Sexual Assault Kits

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G. Karakurt

Bimsara Kennath Suwaris Widanaralalage Don

Jacqueline Curtis

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