Guidelines for Police Training on Violence Against Women and Child Abuse
Presents an overview of violence against women and child abuse. It covers eight specific issues:
• Gender, human rights and the law
• Police attitudes and sensitisation
• Crime prevention approaches to repeat victimisation
• Perspectives on offender profiling
• Evidence and investigation techniques
• Medical and forensic evidence and investigation procedures
• Liaison with non-police organisations
• Statistics, data collection and case management
The authors also introduce training modules on rape, other sexual offences, domestic violence, child abuse and protection as models of good practice from selected Commonwealth countries.
This book is a revision and update of the original edition which was published in 1989. The first two chapters are entirely new and have been added at the request of police officers.
The first edition was hailed by the UN Rapporteur as ‘a useful guide which is used in the Commonwealth and beyond.’
• Gender, human rights and the law
• Police attitudes and sensitisation
• Crime prevention approaches to repeat victimisation
• Perspectives on offender profiling
• Evidence and investigation techniques
• Medical and forensic evidence and investigation procedures
• Liaison with non-police organisations
• Statistics, data collection and case management
The authors also introduce training modules on rape, other sexual offences, domestic violence, child abuse and protection as models of good practice from selected Commonwealth countries.
This book is a revision and update of the original edition which was published in 1989. The first two chapters are entirely new and have been added at the request of police officers.
The first edition was hailed by the UN Rapporteur as ‘a useful guide which is used in the Commonwealth and beyond.’
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Crime prevention approaches to repeated victimisation
As experience in obtaining information and undertaking surveys of victimisation has grown, so has the distinction between prevalence, the number of victims per head of population and incidence, and the number of crimes per head of population. Prevalence is always lower than incidence as women and children are often victimised more than once over time. This is true of all types of crime, and particularly so with violence in domestic settings whether against women or children.
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