All Outputs (3)

Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations (2023)
Journal Article
Rumney, P., & McPhee, D. (2023). Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations. International Review of Victimology, 29(3), 366-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/02697580231151974

Drawing on original empirical data comprising police interviews and case file analysis, this article seeks to better understand the policing responses to cases of rape and specifically, the ways in which officers assist victims in the context of two... Read More about Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations.

Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape (2022)
Journal Article
Rumney, P. N. S., & Mcphee, D. (2022). Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape. Amicus Curiae, 4(1),

This note addresses a form of rape that is neglected in the scholarly literature. This form of offending occurs when a male uses his penis to vaginally, orally or anally penetrate a female or male who is sleeping at the time of the penetration. The d... Read More about Sleep-facilitated sexual assault: An analysis of case data featuring female and male victims of rape.

A police specialist rape investigation unit: a comparative analysis of performance and victim care (2019)
Journal Article
Rumney, P. N., McPhee, D., Fenton, R. A., & Williams, A. (2020). A police specialist rape investigation unit: a comparative analysis of performance and victim care. Policing and Society, 30(5), 548-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2019.1566329

© 2019, © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines quantitative and qualitative data in an analysis of the workings of a specialist rape investigation unit and compares its performance with a non-specialist... Read More about A police specialist rape investigation unit: a comparative analysis of performance and victim care.