Begun Center’s Rachel Lovell co-authors case study on work addressing untested rape kits April 16, 2021Rachel Lovell, research assistant professor at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-authored a case...Publications & Presentations·
Study: Reduce crime by focusing efforts on rapists January 6, 2020Rape-kit testing shows that rapists also commit other serious, invasive crimes, according to new research from Case Western...Business, Law & PoliticsFeatured·
Taking the next step in sexual assault research November 12, 2019Case Western Reserve researchers awarded nearly $1 million in federal grants to continue work on unsolved sexual assaults...FeaturedHealth & WellnessResearch·
‘Signaling’ change in sexual assault cases March 6, 2019Researchers at the Mandel School awarded $715,000 grant to examine thousands of police interviews with sexual assault victims...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social SciencesResearch·
Legacy of ‘redlining’: How 1930s Cleveland mortgage-lending maps mirror today’s poverty July 5, 2018Many of the Cleveland neighborhoods that banks “redlined” almost a century ago have some of the city’s highest...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social Sciences·
Rape kit research to expand with $3 million from U.S. Department of Justice October 20, 2016A Case Western Reserve University research project that has become a national model for helping reshape how sexual...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social Sciences·
Testing backlogged sexual assault kits prevents future rapes and saves victims and communities millions September 12, 2016Testing backlogged sexual assault kits leads to the imprisonment of more rapists—preventing future sexual assaults and saving would-be...FeaturedHumanities, Art & Social Sciences·
