All Outputs (19)

Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions (2024)
Report

The first 2PS (Prevent & protect through support) Knowledge Transfer Workshop (KTW) was held with stakeholders on 22nd January 2024 at UWE in Bristol bringing together professionals, practitioners, academics, and policy makers from acro... Read More about Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions.

Vulnerability, resilience, and rape: Uncovering the hidden work of police officers during rape investigations (2023)
Journal Article

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

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

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.

Policing and criminological perspectives (2021)
Book Chapter

Offender-centric policing in cases of rape (2021)
Journal Article

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.

The evidential value of electronic communication data in rape and sexual offence cases (2020)
Journal Article

Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender (2019)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2019. This article draws upon quantitative and content analysis of 585 reports of rape recorded within two police force areas in England in 2010 and in 2014 tracking individual incidents to eventual outcome to examine the impact, if a... Read More about Rape, inequality and the criminal justice response in England: The importance of age and gender.

A police specialist rape investigation unit: a comparative analysis of performance and victim care (2019)
Journal Article

© 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.

Specialist rape investigation, complex victim vulnerability and partnership working (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The working practices and performance of specialist rape investigation units is an under-researched area. This paper examines data derived from analysis of 441 police case files involving a specialist rape investigation unit and non-specialist compar... Read More about Specialist rape investigation, complex victim vulnerability and partnership working.

Exploring complex victim vulnerability and rape investigations in England and Wales (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The existing research literature suggests that rape cases involving a victim who has an inherent or situational vulnerability such as mental illness or involvement in prostitution tend to have higher levels of attrition and victim withdrawal compared... Read More about Exploring complex victim vulnerability and rape investigations in England and Wales.

A comparative analysis of a specialist rape investigation unit (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Most police forces in England and Wales make use of specialist rape or sexual assault investigation units. Yet, there is little robust research concerning the impact of such units or their efficacy compared to a non-specialist policing response. This... Read More about A comparative analysis of a specialist rape investigation unit.

Conflict and hysteria: Media portrayals of sexual violence in the United Kingdom (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sex offending and sex tourism: Problems, policy and challenges (2014)
Book Chapter

Researching the impact of specialist investigative teams on rape and sexual violence (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A globalised jurisprudence? Reflections on the rise of sex tourism and its implications for the extraterritorial enforcement of law (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The rise of the sex tourist, migration and manipulation in a globalised world (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Investigating and detecting offences of rape (2007)
Report

A comparative analysis of operation bluestone: A specialist rape investigation unit - final report
Report

Most police forces in England and Wales make use of specialist rape or sexual assault investigation units. Yet, there is little robust research concerning the impact of such units or their efficacy compared to a non-specialist policing response. This... Read More about A comparative analysis of operation bluestone: A specialist rape investigation unit - final report.