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    Default Re: Domestic Violence Charge Conviction Rates

    Quote Quoting cdwjava
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    The conviction rate is based upon charges filed for prosecution. A prosecutor does not file on every crime reported, nor on every arrest. They file those cases they believe they can win at trial. As such, the conviction rate tends to be quite high since a plea bargain that results in a guilty plea is still a conviction. If you want to know the rate of conviction when compared to the number of crimes reported, that's a different animal altogether and would require some considerable research on your part as many prosecutor's offices will not have the complete information.
    My definition of "conviction rate" would be the number of convictions (anything other than a non-guilty finding or dismissal) divided by the number of criminal charges.

    I found this: http://www.fcmcclerk.com/documents/a...MC_AR_2016.pdf

    It includes the number 4,042 for the number of criminal charges filed in 2016. That would be the denominator.

    What I would like to find out is how many of those 4,024 criminal charges resulted in anything other than a non-guilty finding or dismissal. I understand that some charges are dropped or modified to something other than the original charge and the accused still suffers legal consequences (e.g., domestic violence dropped while accompanying assault charge remains), but due to the difficulty of finding that info, I would ignore that for purposes of this and just view the DV charge individually.

    Thanks for any suggestions on where I might look for these data.

    Edit: It's old, but I found this, and includes Franklin Co., Ohio, in the representative counties: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/scpdvc.pdf

    Just to summarize for purposes of this thread...

    From the 2002 Bureau of Justice report, it does not break out those charged and convicted as misdemeanors, but it does report on the conviction rate (defendants may have been charged with felonies or misdemeanors, although the felony may have been later dropped down to a misdemeanor -- this was counted as a conviction).

    From "Table 3: Conviction rates of prosecuted domestic and non-domestic violence defendants charged in 15 large counties during May 2002," the percentage of all prosecuted defendants who were charged and convicted for "aggravated assault: domestic" was 86.5%.

    That's a fair bit lower than what What'sThatGuy suggested, but it still is high, I think.

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