Policing Sex Crimes

Dale Spencer, Rosemary Ricciardelli

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Rowman & Littlefield
15 March 2024

Police & security services; Crime & criminology

Series: Applied Criminology across the Globe

Policing Sex Crimes offers an overview of the affordances and difficulties of investigating and responding to sex crimes in contemporary digital society. The simplest to most complex sex crimes investigations can (and often do) have a digital component. Such a digital society creates a number of inter- and intra-organizational challenges in terms of investigation of sex offenses and response to victims of sex crimes. In the proposed text, the authors elucidate laws defining sex crimes across international contexts and examine the different ways nation states have responded to digital sex crimes and related digital communication technologies via laws, policies, and practices. They draw on 70 interviews with sex crime investigators to document the effects of digital sex crimes on the policing profession and the broader police organizations that sex crime investigators work. Lastly, they explore how victims are interpreted by police officers and the challenges they face achieving justice in the wake of sexual victimization.

By: Dale Spencer, Rosemary Ricciardelli
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 209g
ISBN: 9781538159507
ISBN 10: 1538159503
Series: Applied Criminology across the Globe
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 15 March 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dale Spencer is associate professor and Faculty of Public Affairs' Research Excellence Chair in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Rosemary Ricciardelli is professor (PhD, Sociology) in the School of Maritime Studies and Research Chair in Safety, Security, and Wellness, at Memorial University of Newfoundland's Fisheries and Maritime Institute.

Reviews for Policing Sex Crimes

In Policing Sex Crimes, Professors Spencer and Ricciardelli significantly advance our understanding of an aspect of police work that has received insufficient attention. Drawing upon an impressive cross-Canada sample of interviews with officers working in sex crimes units, the authors shine a light on such topics as the increasingly technologized aspect of policing, the 'victim support' role provided by officers, and the moral taint surrounding 'sex crimes' officers. The concluding chapter is noteworthy for its consideration of this type of policing as a form of 'dirty work' that officers undertake on behalf of a society that is eager to 'do something' about sex crimes, but which is happy to have unseen others engage in the distasteful, shocking, and psychologically traumatizing realities of such work. Policing Sex Crimes represents a significant and much needed contribution to the research on police investigation. With access to data from 70 interviews, Spencer and Ricciardelli offer a unique opportunity to peer behind the glamorous images of such work in mainstream media, revealing instead a complex picture of how both investigators and victims are often forced to navigate incredibly difficult legal, emotional and psychological terrain.