Understanding sex offence victims, risk and police investigations using novel datasets

Published

Gekoski, A., Horvath, M. A. H., & Davies, K. (2026). Police officers’ perspectives on the secondary victimisation of rape and serious sexual assault victims. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2025.2611338

Gekoski, A., Davies, K. & Horvath, M. A. H. (2026). ‘It’s an absolute shambles': Police officers' views on institutional challenges in policing rape and serious sex offences in England and Wales. Policing & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2026.2651198

Spence, R., Crivatu, I.M., Davies, K. & Horvath, M.A.H. (2025). A Comparison of ‘Only-Once’ and Repeat Male and Female Sex Offence Suspects. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 1-18 https://doi.org/10.1080/13552600.2025.2559946

Under review

Heimer, R., Spence, R. & Dalton, C.T. (under review). Racist rape myths in police investigations? A Black feminist analysis of racial inequalities in rape investigative outcomes in an English police force

Spence, R., Crivatu, I. M., Horvath, M. A. H. & Davies, K. (under review). Exploring victim crossover by repeat sex offence suspects

Khan, A., Healy, J.C., Gekoski, A., Hardiman, M.  & Heimer, R. (under review). Testimonial injustice and safeguarding failures: A mixed-methods study on police responses in England and Wales to reports of sexual violence from vulnerable victims.

Spence, R., Crivatu, I.M., Davies, K. & Horvath, M.A.H. (under review). Characteristics of generalist and specialist repeat sex offence suspects from three police forces in England and Wales.

Crivatu, I.M., Widanaralalage, J. &  Spence, R. (under review). Predictors of investigative outcomes for male and female sex offence victims: Associations with victim-, suspect-, and offence-level characteristics in police crime data.

Widanaralalage, J., Crivatu, I.M. & Spence, R. (under review). Male and female victims of sex offences. Comparative profiles in police crime data in England and Wales.

Gekoski, A., Davies, K. & Horvath, M.A.H. (under review). False, mistaken, or unsubstantiated? Unravelling police officers’ perceptions of ‘false’ allegations of rape.

Barbin, A., Spence, R. &  Crivatu, I.M. (under review). Sexual abuse in the elderly: A quantitative overview of police-reported rape and sex offence (RASSO) cases in England and Wales

Crivatu, I.M., Spence, R., Karsna, K. & Cain, S. (under review). Child Sexual Abuse in Police Data: Victim and Crime Predictors of Police Outcomes.

Karsna, K., Cain, S., Crivatu, I.M. & Spence, R. (under review). The scale and nature of sexual offending against children in police-recorded crime: Findings from Operation Soteria. Centre for Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse.

Davies, K., Spence, R., Crivatu, I.M. & Horvath, M.A.H. (under review). What’s in a name? Considering prevalence and type of repeat sex offending in a new framework.

Davies, K., Rettenberger, M., Horvath, M.A.H., Crivatu, I.M. & Spence, R. (under review). Revisiting sex offending recidivism using suspect, not conviction, data

Gekoski, A., Horvath, M. A. H., & Davies, K. (2026). Enough is enough: Radical change is required to end policing’s revictimisation of RASSO victims. Article published in Policing Insight on the 19^th January https://policinginsight.com/feature/analysis/enough-is-enough-radical-change-is-required-to-end-policings-revictimisation-of-rasso-victims/

Gekoski, A., Davies, K., & Horvath, M. A. H. (2026). ‘It’s an absolute shambles’: police officers’ views on institutional challenges in policing rape and serious sex offences in England and Wales. Article published in Policing Insight on the 2nd April https://policinginsight.com/feature/analysis/an-absolute-shambles-police-officers-views-on-institutional-challenges-in-policing-rape-and-serious-sex-offences/ 

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