Lying about sexual assault: a qualitative study of detective perspectives on false reporting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Stacy Dewald ◽  
Katherine Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
False Reporting

scholarly journals Sexual Assault: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Not Being Believed by the Police

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110139
Author(s):  
Jodie Murphy-Oikonen ◽  
Lori Chambers ◽  
Karen McQueen ◽  
Alexa Hiebert ◽  
Ainsley Miller
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Secondary Data Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Way

Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) violent sexual assault, (c) dismissal by police, and (d) survival and resilience. These women were determined to voice their experience and make recommendations for change in the way police respond to sexual assault.

scholarly journals [De]-Centering the Victim: Police Perceptions of Victims of Sexual Violence through a Comparative Lens of Evidence Collection and Processing

2021 ◽  
pp. 155708512110319
Author(s):  
Deborah White ◽  
Lesley McMillan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Evidence Collection ◽  
Police Perceptions

Police are central to the statutory response to sexual violence, shaping the direction an investigation may take. Evidence provided by victims is also key to the processing of sexual assault cases. From a 2013 comparative qualitative study involving interviews with police officers in one province in Canada ( n = 11) and one region in Scotland ( n = 10) who investigate such cases, we discovered striking unanticipated differences between the two groups in terms of how they perceived victims and the evidence they provide. This paper presents a thematic analysis of these data and considers possible implications and explanations.

Refining Sexual Assault Treatment: Recovered Survivors and Expert Therapists Concur on Effective Therapy Components

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110373
Author(s):  
Moor Avigail ◽  
Otmazgin Michal ◽  
Tsiddon Hagar ◽  
Avivit Mahazri
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Treatment Process ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Key Recovery ◽  
Effective Interventions ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Processing Treatment ◽  
Trauma Processing ◽  
Level Of Agreement

The goal of the present study was to refine sexual assault therapy through the examination of the level of agreement between survivor and therapist assessments of key recovery-promoting therapeutic interventions. This is the first study to explore the level of agreement between those who partake in the treatment process from either position. Semistructured interviews were conducted in this qualitative study with 10 survivors and 10 experienced therapists. The results document considerable concurrence between them regarding relational and trauma processing treatment components alike. Together, these reports outline key effective interventions, both common and specific in nature, concomitantly supported by both groups.

Sexual assault and harassment of doctors, by doctors: a qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (8) ◽  
pp. 833-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Stone ◽  
Christine Phillips ◽  
Kirsty A Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study

“Even crap can be fertilizer”: The experience of volunteering at sexual assault crisis centers for women survivors of sexual assault

2020 ◽  
pp. 095935352095514
Author(s):  
Keren Gueta ◽  
Yael Cohen-Leibovich ◽  
Natti Ronel
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Women Survivors ◽  
Sexual Assault Survivors ◽  
Identity Reconstruction ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Individual Role

This qualitative study illuminates the experience of volunteering at sexual assault crisis centers among women survivors of sexual assault. In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 women who had been volunteering at four different sexual assault crisis centers across Israel for 1 to 17 years. The findings reveal three main themes. First, there are five types of motivation to volunteer at such centers, all grounded in the participants’ experience of sexual assault. Second, volunteering fosters recovery by promoting an empowered identity reconstruction and social integration. Third, both challenges and risks to recovery, such as exposure to sexual-assault triggers, arise from the experiences of sexual assault and volunteering at the centers. Moreover, the findings indicate various mechanisms that shape the risks–benefits dynamic involved in volunteering, such as the demands of the volunteering role. Thus, this study shifts the understanding of prosocial behavior by sexual-assault survivors from a binary assessment of “positive” or “negative” to a more comprehensive appraisal at the individual, role, and organizational levels.

scholarly journals Social Reactions to Sexual Assault Disclosure: A Qualitative Study of Informal Support Dyads

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1497-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Lorenz ◽  
Sarah E. Ullman ◽  
Anne Kirkner ◽  
Rupashree Mandala ◽  
Amanda L. Vasquez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Interview Study ◽  
Role Reversal ◽  
Informal Support ◽  
Dyadic Analysis ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Relationship Type ◽  
Relational Patterns ◽  
Social Reactions

This interview study examined 45 informal support dyads where sexual assault was disclosed. Analysis showed social reactions and appraisals of reactions varied by relationship type (family, friend, significant other). Themes identified were role reversal or “parentification” of supporters, reactions of anger and aggression toward perpetrators, supporters using their own trauma experiences to respond to survivors, and reactions of betrayal. Results revealed the potential for identifying relational patterns and dynamics occurring in social reactions through dyadic analysis not otherwise captured by a survivor-only perspective. This approach helps understand and address distinct relationship contexts to improve supporters’ reactions to sexual assault disclosure.

scholarly journals Forensic Chromatography of Documentary Evidence and its Role in Solving Dark Cases to Provide Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 481-493
Author(s):  
Shabana kouser Jatoi ◽  
Raana khan ◽  
Muhammad Nouman Jatoi
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Digital Evidence ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
International Courts

The aim of writing article in hand is to critically determine whether in our legal system any attention is paid towards recovering, preserving, collecting, and covering the documentary and digital evidence and using modern techniques to analyze it sufficient to ensure its admissibility in national and international courts. This article has completed this task by conducting a purely qualitative study of case laws and critically examining 2014 international protocols documentation and investigation of sexual assault cases. The main objective of this research is four-folds. First are what standards followed internationally for this purpose. Secondly, to review case laws in which guidelines are provided for documentary physical and digital evidence? Thirdly to deeply analyze those new techniques up to what extent are followed in Pakistan. Fourthly and finally to recommend /suggest that new techniques of Forensic, namely chromatography, should broadly be used in the investigation not only in whitecollar crimes but as well as in other civil and criminal cases.

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