Stemming the flow: challenges for policing adult sexual assault with regard to attrition rates and under‐reporting of sexual offences

Caroline Taylor, S.; Gassner, Leigh

doi:10.1080/15614260902830153

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Stemming the flow: challenges for policing adult sexual assault with regard to attrition rates and under‐reporting of sexual offences

Published in Police Practice and Research • Dec 30, 2009

Authors:

S. Caroline Taylor

Leigh Gassner

Abstract

Sexual assault is recognised as among the most challenging problems facing criminal jurisdictions. Of concern is the deficiency in response to this crime by criminal justice institutions. Police responses to reported sexual assault are crucial to the overall criminal justice response. However, sexua...

Subject

Criminal justice

Criminology

Sexual assault

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