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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for rape (u.k.)
3 results foundAuthor: Brown, Jennifer Title: Connections and Disconnections: Assessing Evidence, Knowledge and Practice in Responses to Rape Summary: The Stern Review was announced by the Government Equalities Office on 22nd September 2009, in part as a response to concerns raised by the Reid and Worboys cases. In these cases, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) responsible for various investigative failures when responding to complaints by rape victim-survivors. John Yates, an MPS Assistant Commissioner and the, then, Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) lead for rape noted that notwithstanding a raft of changes and innovations in the investigation and prosecution of rape the response had been “policy rich and implementation poor.” This literature review is a question led, adapted Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) designed to support Baroness Stern’s review. This method was chosen largely because time constraints precluded the undertaking of a full systematic review of the literature (which can take up to a year to complete). REAs provide quick summaries of what is already known about a topic and use systematic review methods to search and evaluate the literature. The Government Social Research Unit has produced an REA toolkit which was followed in preparing this overview of the relevant research literature. In short, criteria for searching for published research papers were set and a strategy was established for searching for the unpublished (grey) literature. Details: London: Government Equalities Office, 2010. 66p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 31, 2011 at: http://homeoffice.gov.uk/equalities/ Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://homeoffice.gov.uk/equalities/ Shelf Number: 122572 Keywords: Rape (U.K.)Rape VictimsSexual Assault |
Author: Lovett, Jo Title: Rape in the 21st Century: Old Behaviours, New Contexts and Emerging Patterns Summary: Home Office statistics show a continuing decline in the conviction rate for rape over the last three decades, which reached a low of 5.27 per cent in 2003. Building on an existing data set, this project seeks to explore how far the construction of ‘real rape’ – committed by strangers, occurring in outdoor locations and involving weapons and injury – operates as a template from which all other types of reported cases are judged. This stereotype serves to disguise the social realities of rape – that perpetrators are invariably known and that it takes place in the complexity of daily life and everyday routines. Drawing on a dataset of 3,500 cases and linked qualitative data, the project will involve developing analytical frames to assess the extent to which decision-making by complainants, police, prosecutors and judges at all stages of the process can be predicted through the elements of real rape, and whether the concept needs adapting for the 21st century. The findings will add to our understanding of the attrition process and the justice gap. Details: Swindon, UK: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), 2007. 27p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 25, 2011 at: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-1679/read Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-000-22-1679/read Shelf Number: 123145 Keywords: Rape (U.K.)Sex OffendersSex OffensesSexual Violence |
Author: Hester, Marianne Title: From Report to Court: Rape cases and the criminal justice system in the North East Summary: This research was commissioned by the Northern Rock Foundation to examine progression of individual cases relating to rape through the criminal justice system, from reporting to conviction, across three police force areas in the North East of England. The study came about due to concerns within the criminal justice sector in the region that little is known about the detailed pattern of progression, attrition or related criminal justice system practice in rape cases. Nationally the data on rape cases progressing through the criminal justice system is unable to provide a clear picture of what happens to individual cases from policing through to court outcomes (MoJ et al. 2013). A few previous studies have examined progression of individual cases, however one of these was prior to the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (which came into force in 2004) (Kelly et al. 2005), and none were concerned with the North East (Metropolitan Police 2007; McMillan 2010). The current research thus provides a unique picture of the nature of rape cases reported to the police in the early 2010s in the North East of England and adds considerably to our understanding of the progression of individual cases through the criminal justice system. Details: Bristol, UK: Bristol: University of Bristol in association with the Northern Rock Foundation, 2013. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 8, 2013 at: http://www.nr-foundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/From-Report-to-Court-final-5-july-13.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.nr-foundation.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/From-Report-to-Court-final-5-july-13.pdf Shelf Number: 129579 Keywords: Gender-Related ViolenceRape (U.K.)Sex OffendersSexual Violence |