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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.

Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: An analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data (2021)
Journal Article
McPhee, D., Hester, M., Bates, L., Lilley-Walker, S. J., & Patsios, D. (2022). Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: An analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data. Policing and Society, 32(8), 63–980. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2021.2003358

Responding to domestic violence and abuse (DVA) poses significant challenges for the criminal justice system, with recent studies highlighting a number of significant gaps and failings in the nature of the police response in particular. This paper re... Read More about Criminal justice responses to domestic violence and abuse in England: An analysis of case attrition and inequalities using police data.

Offender-centric policing in cases of rape (2021)
Journal Article
Rumney, P. N., & McPhee, D. (2021). Offender-centric policing in cases of rape. Journal of Criminal Law, 85(6), 425-440. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183211027453

The article explores the idea of ‘offender-centric’ policing in cases of rape, with its focus on suspect and offender admissions and behaviours. It features discussion of 11 cases, illustrating offender-centric pathways to charge or conviction, the c... Read More about Offender-centric policing in cases of rape.