Reports and Papers
226 results found.
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Book Chapter
Sex as Crime?
Edited by Gayle Letherby, Kate Williams, Philip Birch & Maureen Cain, Willan Publishing Chapter title: Contradictions and paradoxes: international patterns of, and responses to, reported rape cases
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Research Report Domestic Violence Policy Violence Against Women
Making the Grade? 2007: The third annual independent analysis of UK Government initiatives on violence against women
The UK Government scored a disappointing 2 out of 10 in Making the Grade? The third annual assessment of what Government Departments are doing to tackle violence against women (2007)
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Research Report Criminal Justice System Domestic Violence Evaluation Policy Violence Against Women
‘If only we’d known’: an exploratory study of seven intimate partner homicides in Engleshire
During one year there were five cases of intimate partner femicide (IPF) in Engleshire two of which involved perpetrator suicide. This cluster of cases were unusual in that there had been no prior agency involvement and, it appeared, minimal previous violence. This report addresses the knowledge of informal network members
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Research Report Domestic Violence Statistics Violence Against Women
Map of Gaps: The Postcode Lottery of Violence Against Women Support Services
Map of Gaps shows graphically for the first time the real postcode lottery in violence against women support services such as Rape Crisis Centres and domestic violence refuges. A third of local authorities across the UK do not have specialised services, leaving many women without the support they deserve.
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Book Chapter
Social justice and Criminal justice
Edited by Rebecca Roberts and Will McMahon; New Directions, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies Chapter title: It’s fine as long as she’s not doing it out of force’: Paying for sex – harmful and/or criminal?
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Book Chapter
Human Trafficking
Edited by Maggy Lee, Willan Publishing Chapter title: A conducive context: Trafficking of persons in Central Asia
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Research Report
Rape in the 21st Century; Old Behaviours, New Contexts and Emerging Powers
Funded by the ESRC, this project builds on an existing data set and seeks to explore the notion that the treatment of reported rape cases is influenced by stereotyoical notions of ‘real rape’ – committed by strangers, occurring in outdoor locations and involving weapons and injury – and that these
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Research Report
It’s just like going to the supermarket’: Men buying sex in East London
This exploratory study extends the limited knowledge base on men who pay for sex. The research explores the decision-making processes of men who pay for sex in the borough of Tower Hamlets, an area of London that has a well-established and visible street soliciting area. The original target group were
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Research Report
From the Outset: Why Violence should be a priority for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights
This paper was commissioned by EVAW for the Equality Review, to argue that violence should be a cross-cutting them in the soon to be established Commission on Equality and Human Rights. The paper was updated and launched at an event hosted by the Equality and Diversity Forum, and has prompted
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Book Chapter
Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
Chapter title: Sexual Violence and Rape