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The Situational Context of Police Sexual Violence: Data and Policy Implications
Philip Matthew Stinson1, Robert W Taylor1, John Liederbach1
1Philip Matthew Stinson, J.D., Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Bowling Green State University, where he researches police crime and other forms of police misconduct. Robert W. Taylor, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has authored or co-authored over two hundred articles, books, and manuscripts focused primarily in the areas of police administration, police procedures, police misconduct and accountability, and international and domestic terrorism. John Liederbach, Ph.D. is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Bowling Green State University. His primary scholarly interests include the study of police behavior across community contexts, the organizational processing of citizen complaints, and police misconduct.
Abstract:
The horrors of sexual crimes perpetrated by law enforcement officers are laid bare in this study of 669 cases of police sexual violence. Here, authors Philip Matthew Stinson, Robert W. Taylor, and John Liederbach identify three scenarios in which law enforcement officers inflict sexual violence upon their mostly-female victims: 1) "driving while female," 2) child predation, and 3) involvement in the sex worker industry. Especially sobering is the fact that, as opposed to law enforcement doing its solemn duty to report criminality on the part of fellow police officers, "citizens rather than police initiated the detection of the crimes in almost all the cases, whether the context involved child predation (94.8%), driving while female (94.7%), or the sex worker industry (90.8%)." Rather than an anomaly, sexual predation on the part of police, along with the routine cover-ups that perpetuate these crimes, appears to be just one component of the "rotten barrel" that depicts a culture of police corruption.
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