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Title
Criminal investigations of sexual offenses : techniques and challenges / Nadine Deslauriers-Varin, Craig Bennell, editors.
ISBN
9783030799687 (electronic bk.)
3030799689 (electronic bk.)
9783030799670
3030799670
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-79968-7 doi
Call Number
HV8079.S48 C75 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.25/953
Summary
It is startling to read how few sexual offenses are reported in a year; even more shocking to see how few reports lead to an arrest. Research on effective responses to sexual offenses is much needed and ongoing. This edited book presents the current state of research on investigative techniques used in sex crime investigations, and the operational challenges and issues that arise in these investigations. Including an international cohort of scholars from various academic backgrounds, it reviews current efforts in key areas, synthesizing the research to make recommendations for the improvement of investigative practices and the criminal justice system's response to sexual offenses. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the topic, a review of the research, and a discussion of the key points relevant to investigators and researchers as they move forward. The book is broken down into four themes: suspect prioritization and identification techniques, investigative interviewing, operational challenges and issues, and the investigation of specific types of sex crimes. With its broad coverage and international scope, this volume fills the gap in knowledge for investigators working on sex crimes cases. With its easy-to-read style and clear analysis of the research, this is the perfect volume for investigators and law enforcement officers, policy makers and researchers, and students in criminology and criminal justice, forensic psychology, and victim services. Depicts the current state of empirical knowledge and findings related to investigative techniques used in sex crimes investigations; Analyzes the operational challenges that surface in sex crimes investigations; Includes an easy-to-read literature review of the most up-to-date research on sex crime investigation; Concentrates on effective investigative techniques for those cases where forensic techniques will not suffice.
Note
Includes index.
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Digital File Characteristics
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 8, 2021).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9783030799670
Part I. Suspect Prioritization and Identification Techniques
1. Offender decision-making
2. Psychological/offender profiling
3. Geographic profiling
4. Crime linkage
Part II. Investigative interviewing
5. Suspect interviewing and confession
6. Child interviewing
7. Witnesses and victims interviewing
Part III. Operational challenges and issues
8. Eyewitness issues
9. False confession and deception detection
10. False allegations
11. Reliability and validity of computerized databases
12. Investigative failures
13. Investigative decision-making
Part IV. Investigation of specific types of sex offenses
14. Sexual cybercrime
15. Sexual homicide.
