TABLE 2. Criminal Justice System Actions Taken in Target Incident and Victim Appraisal of Actions by Rereporting Status (N = 119)
| Characteristic |
No new incident (Group 1) (N = 60) |
New incident reported (Group 2) (N = 25) |
New incident not reported (Group 3) (N = 34) |
 2 |
p |
|
| Prosecutor filed serious criminal charge(s) against offendera |
21.7% |
20.0% |
14.7% |
0.68 |
.711 |
| Offender "successfully prosecuted"b |
66.7 |
84.0 |
82.4 |
4.26 |
.119 |
| Offender mandated to attend batterer treatment |
11.7 |
16.0 |
23.5 |
2.28 |
.320 |
| Offender completed batterer treatment |
42.9 |
50.0 |
50.0 |
0.90 |
.956 |
| Offender placed on probation |
21.7 |
40.0 |
26.5 |
3.02 |
.221 |
| Offender incarcerated |
8.8 |
8.0 |
16.1 |
1.21 |
.546 |
|
a Serious crime charges in this sample were attempted murder, rape, aggravated assault, kidnapping, robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, stalking, and civil rights violations.
b "Successful prosecutions" refer to those cases that were continued without a finding; that were filed; or in which a defendant pled or was found guilty or received a suspended sentence, probation, a stay, or a split sentence or was committed to a house of correction. "Unsuccessful prosecutions" refer to cases that were dismissed at arraignment or nolle prossed or in which the defendant was found not guilty.
