Policing technology-facilitated sexual violence against adult victims : police and service sector perspectives
Powell, Anastasia
Policing technology-facilitated sexual violence against adult victims : police and service sector perspectives Anastasia Powell and Nicola Henry - Taylor & Francis, 2016 - Policing and Society .
Policing and Society, 2016, Advance online publication, 8 March 2016
To date, the majority of attention to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in both policy and practice has been on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Far less attention has been paid to digital sexualised violence against adult members of the population. The aim of this paper is to examine police responses to these serious and emerging harms, which we identify as including the following: (1) online sexual harassment; (2) gender and sexuality-based harassment; (3) cyberstalking; (4) image-based sexual exploitation (including ‘revenge pornography’); and (5) the use of communications technologies to coerce a victim into an unwanted sexual act. While these are variously criminal offences, unlawful civil behaviours or not subject to criminal or civil sanctions or remedies, we claim in this paper that they exist on a continuum of violence and yet the ‘real’ harms of TFSV are frequently minimised in practice. (From the authors' abstract). Record #4963
ABUSED WOMEN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
IMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LEGISLATION
POLICE PROCEDURES
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SOCIAL MEDIA
STALKING
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
VICTIMS OF CRIMES
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
AUSTRALIA
Policing technology-facilitated sexual violence against adult victims : police and service sector perspectives Anastasia Powell and Nicola Henry - Taylor & Francis, 2016 - Policing and Society .
Policing and Society, 2016, Advance online publication, 8 March 2016
To date, the majority of attention to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in both policy and practice has been on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Far less attention has been paid to digital sexualised violence against adult members of the population. The aim of this paper is to examine police responses to these serious and emerging harms, which we identify as including the following: (1) online sexual harassment; (2) gender and sexuality-based harassment; (3) cyberstalking; (4) image-based sexual exploitation (including ‘revenge pornography’); and (5) the use of communications technologies to coerce a victim into an unwanted sexual act. While these are variously criminal offences, unlawful civil behaviours or not subject to criminal or civil sanctions or remedies, we claim in this paper that they exist on a continuum of violence and yet the ‘real’ harms of TFSV are frequently minimised in practice. (From the authors' abstract). Record #4963
ABUSED WOMEN
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
IMAGE-BASED SEXUAL ABUSE
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
LEGISLATION
POLICE PROCEDURES
SEXUAL HARASSMENT
SOCIAL MEDIA
STALKING
TECHNOLOGY-FACILITATED ABUSE
VICTIMS OF CRIMES
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
SEXUAL VIOLENCE
AUSTRALIA