Holding perpetrators accountable for family violence is challenged when survivors are reluctant to testify. In light of recent Supreme Court precedents limiting the admissibility of statements to law enforcement in victimless prosecutions, the current study examined 130 cases of nonfatal strangulation (NFS) to determine whether case characteristics and themes across survivors’ on-scene statements can help prosecutors combat common legal defenses raised when victims are unavailable for trial. The history of prior violence and how only 6% of perpetrators stopped strangling victims on their own suggests that NFS complaints should be investigated as an attempted homicide until evidence suggests otherwise.

当幸存者不愿作证时，追究施暴者对家庭暴力负责的挑战。鉴于最近最高法院的先例限制了执法部门在无受害者起诉中陈述的可接受性，目前的研究检查了 130 起非致命勒死 (NFS) 案件，以确定幸存者现场陈述的案件特征和主题是否可以帮助检察官打击常见的在受害者无法出庭受审时提出的法律抗辩。先前的暴力历史以及只有 6% 的肇事者如何停止自行勒死受害者，这表明 NFS 投诉应作为谋杀未遂进行调查，直到有证据表明并非如此。