Full Description
Investigating Sexual Assault Cases, Second Edition serves as an essential textbook for courses in investigating rape and sexual assault. As with the first edition, this second edition includes the latest research and techniques in coverage of victimology, offender typology, investigative techniques, interviewing, and legal implications.
This new, second edition includes chapters on child victims and molestation, sexual homicides as potentially staged events, grooming, interviewing techniques, and same-sex, elder, and special populations as victims of sexual assault. The book fills a current void in the body of literature on the topics of rape and sex crime investigation. Many previous writings, while informative, do not address all the investigative processes necessary for an investigation to be thorough and complete. By providing a fresh approach to the topic, the author aims to augment those writings and, ultimately, improving the reader' awareness by being much more attuned to the needs of—and taking investigative cures from—the victim.
Key Features:
Outlines the complete investigative process for sexual assault cases, from evidence collection and interviews to court and legal proceedings
Addresses victims and victimology, offender typology, the importance of the investigative interviewing process, and working with attorneys
Includes new chapters on grooming, sexual homicides, SAFE examinations, and child-specific interviewing techniques
Added coverage looks at same-sex crimes, crimes against men, elder victims, and assault of vulnerable populations
In addition to being used in coursework in Forensic Science and Criminal justice programs, Investigating Sexual Assault Cases, Second Edition will serve as an essential reference for police detectives, criminal and death investigators, legal professionals, sexual assault nurses, and those who provide health, and mental health, services to populations experiencing sexual assault.
Contents
Contents
Preface .................................................................................................................................. xv
Acknowledgments .................................................................................................................. xix
Author Biography ................................................................................................................... xxi
Contributor Biography .......................................................................................................... xxiii
Chapter 1 Introduction to Rape and Sexual Assault .......................................................... 1
Chapter 2 Th e Female Victim ............................................................................................. 17
Chapter 3 Special Victims I: Th e Elderly, the Intellectually Disabled,
and the Deaf ........................................................................................................ 35
Chapter 4 Special Victims II: Child, Incest, and Male Victims ...................................... 51
Chapter 5 Victimology ................................................................................................... 67
Chapter 6 Th e Victim Interview ..................................................................................... 85
Chapter 7 Th e Child Interview ...................................................................................... 113
Chapter 8 Grooming Child and Adult Victims ................................................................... 135
Chapter 9 Online Off enders ............................................................................................. 153
Chapter 10 Human Sexuality .............................................................................................. 171
Chapter 11 Off ender Typology ........................................................................................... 185
Chapter 12 Special Off enders ............................................................................................. 215
Chapter 13 Acquaintance and Marital Rape .......................................................................... 237
Chapter 14 Suspect Interviews ............................................................................................ 263
Chapter 15 Crime Scene and Preliminary Investigation ........................................................ 291
Chapter 16 Th e Medical Examination ............................................................................... 315
Chapter 17 Th e Latent Investigation .................................................................................. 331
Chapter 18 Serial Off enders ............................................................................................. 349
Chapter 19 Drug- and Alcohol- Facilitated Sexual Assaults ................................................. 371
Chapter 20 Sex and Death ................................................................................................. 397
Chapter 21 False Rape Allegations ..................................................................................... 415
Chapter 22 Working with Prosecutors and Expert Witnesses ............................................... 445
Chapter 23 Common Investigative Mistakes ......................................................................... 473
Index ................................................................................................................................. 495
