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• Title: Factors Prompting Decisions to Disengage from Multiple Perpetrator Rape: A Mixed-methods Study
• Description: The project investigates multiple perpetrator rape (i.e., sexual offending involving at least two people). It focusses specifically on the individuals within the group who do not sexually participate alongside other(s) but are nonetheless present or involved in other capacities. Drawing on psychological and criminological theories and utilising a mixed-methods design, the research aims to uncover the individual(s)’ actions, decision-making process and the factors contributing to them.

• Title: Policing sex offences: UK officers’ insights on specialism.
• Description: In recent years, there has been increasing interest to address how the police handle sex offences. Despite this, academic research is frequently limited to government surveys on victim experience and satisfaction with police work. Several campaigns, interventions and projects have been initiated to understand why the conviction rate for rape and other sexual offences remains minimal despite the overall increase in reports. This PhD aims at closing some of the gaps around the topic, focusing on the officers’ perspective of what they think they are doing when they are working in contact with the public. Moreover, their ideas of the advantages and barriers of implementing specialism within police forces will be considered to inform future policies and legislation. A range of academic and policing tools will be used to map how specialism evolved throughout the years, what it implies, and how much police officers in England and Wales value specialist knowledge as a tool to repair victims’ expectations and dissatisfaction.

• Working title: Perception of Marital Rape: the role of level of resistance, sexual deprivation, and jealousy.

Dr Kari Davies – Visiting Senior Fellow in Social Justice and Crime 

Dr Jeffrey DeMarco – Visiting Senior Fellow in Forensic Psychology 

Victoria Green – Visiting Senior Fellow in Safeguarding 

Fiona Ellis – Visiting Senior Fellow in Social Work and Social Policy 

Fred Langford - Visiting Professor in Safeguarding Technology 

Nishtha Lamba - Visiting Senior Fellow in Trauma and Marginalised Communities 

Professor Eamonn Carrabine - Visiting Professor in Sociology

Professor Nigel South - Visiting Professor in Sociology

Alison Bird - Visiting Senior Fellow in Social Policy

Matt Bland - Visiting Senior Fellow in Crime & Policing Studies 

Laura Higgins - Visiting Senior Fellow in Online Safeguarding

Tink Palmer - Visiting Professor of Child Protection

Professor Andy Phippen - Visiting Professor of Online Safety

Dr Ruth Weir - Visiting Senior Fellow in Criminal Justice & Crime

Gareth Wilson - Visiting Senior Fellow in Crime, Justice and Diversity

Millie Garrod - Visiting Senior Fellow in Policing Research and Policy

Dave Cutler - Visiting Senior Fellow in Policing 

Patrick Tidmarsh - Visiting Senior Fellow in Policing and Investigative Interviewing

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