Booktopia has been placed into Voluntary Administration. Orders have been temporarily suspended, whilst the process for the recapitalisation of Booktopia and/or sale of its business is completed, following which services may be re-established. All enquiries from creditors, including customers with outstanding gift cards and orders and placed prior to 3 July 2024, please visit https://www.mcgrathnicol.com/creditors/booktopia-group/

Policing Sexual Assault

By: Jeanne Gregory, Sue Lees

Write A Review

eBook | 6 December 2012 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

ePUB
256 Pages

eBook

$90.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $22.75 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Booktopia Reader App

Policing Sexual Assault provides a detailed account of current police practice in the UK in response to sexual assault. The authors use case studies and interviews to find out why when the number of rape cases has almost trebled since 1985, the proportion of cases resulting in a conviction has dropped from 24% to 8.6%. Chapters cover:

an overview of existing research
police culture
police recording practices
the role of the Crime Prosecution Service
male rape
analysis of the judicial process
interviews with complainants and first-hand accounts of their experiences
proposals for reform.

The authors place their findings within the context of theoretical debates about domestic and sexual violence and examine the gap between official condemnations of male violence, as enshrined in law, and the realities of the victims' (male and female) experiences - whereby the violence is too often condoned.