Policing Sexual Offences and Sex Offenders

✍ Scribed by Terry Thomas (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 119
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Risk, Crime and Society
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sexual offending has become a mainstay item of reporting in our daily newspapers, and television news bulletins. This book offers an account of the policing of sexual offences and the difficulties that confront the police in the investigation of these intrusive crimes. It surveys the breath of sexual offences and examines the reporting of sexual crime and the attrition level that follows. It proceeds by critically assessing the efforts the police are making to overcome these difficulties and the degree to which they are making progress.
The book outlines the relatively new police role of policing the convicted sex offenders themselves, who are living in the community and are subject to risk 'management' by the police and the requirements of the sex offender register held by the police. Written by a leading expert, this timely book will be of great interest to scholars of sexual offending and criminal justice.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-3
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Reporting and Recording Sexual Offences....Pages 7-28
The Police Investigation of Reports....Pages 29-41
Police Investigation of Reports: The National Level....Pages 43-55
Front Matter....Pages 56-56
International Policing....Pages 57-70
The Police Management of Sexual Offenders....Pages 73-88
The Police Collection and Dissemination of Information on Sexual Offenders....Pages 89-101
Conclusions....Pages 103-108
Back Matter....Pages 109-116

✦ Subjects

Policing;Crime and Society;Media and Communication;Sexual Behavior;Cybercrime