Powerful men connected to Jeffrey Epstein are named, dissected and speculated about. The survivors, unless they work hard to step forward, remain a blurred mass in the background.
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As humans, we want a rational explanation to help us understand why someone would commit these horrific crimes.
New analysis reveals the most common types of anti-social behaviour, and who the victims are.
What research shows does and doesn’t work to prevent people convicted of sexual offences from reoffending.
But questions remain on how well a scheme to provide victims with information about abusive partners is working.
It’s time to stop surveying women about their experiences as rape victims, time to research the men who perpetrate these crimes and work to inebriate and isolate women.
While research indicates there are likely to be fewer female psychopaths than male, this may be because their traits are less visible than their male counterparts.
Men like Harvey Weinstein have been able to abuse with relative impunity, despite many in the entertainment industry appearing to know or have suspicion of their behaviour.
Victims of online fraud say they’re passed from one authority to another when they try to report it, and they’re still made to feel they are to blame for being caught out by a scam.
Too often the impact of online fraud on people is trivialised, minimised or not even acknowledged by law enforcement agencies, families and friends. But we can do more to help them.
A report from Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary has revealed that police in England and Wales fail to record in excess of 800,000 crimes a year. That’s one in five offences; over one-quarter of…
A victim’s justice-related satisfaction to punishment is only significant when offenders change their attitude towards offending…
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Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Domestic and Family Violence, Queensland Centre for Domestic and Family Violence Research, CQUniversity Australia
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Teaching Fellow in The School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University
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Professor of Psychology, University of New Brunswick
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Professor, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Forensic Psychology & Director of the Centre of Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement (COPE), Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Quantitative Criminology, Nottingham Trent University
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Stephanie A. (Sam) Martin is a Friend of The Conversation.
Frank and Bethine Church Endowed Chair of Public Affairs, Boise State University
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Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University
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Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Nottingham Trent University
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Principal Research Associate, Department of Security and Crime Science, UCL
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Principal Lecturer in Public Policy, Nottingham Trent University
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Associate Professor Psychology & Associate Head of Sexual Offences Crime and Misconduct Research Unit, Nottingham Trent University
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Reader in Criminal Justice and Social Complexity, University of Portsmouth
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne