News tagged with sexual offences

Knock-out drugs: Narrow window for detection

Drug-facilitated sexual crimes are increasing. The Bonn Institute for Forensic Medicine has recorded that the number of examinations on the use of intoxicants in sexual offences within their catchment area increased 10-fold ...

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created May 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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More effective and better protection is needed for children online

Present-day technical and legal methods of preventing child pornography offences and online grooming are not sufficiently effective and do not meet their purpose. A thesis from the University of othenburg, Sweden, shows ...

Technology / Internet

created Jan 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Female sexual offenders: Unrecognized and underreported

Sexual offenses committed by women, while often unrecognised and underreported, have become the subject of a new book by a University of Montreal professor. Female Sexual Offenders: Theory, Assessment and Treatment (Wiley), ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 20, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Interpol asks Web surfers to help catch fugitives

International police agency Interpol on Monday urged Internet users to help track down hundreds of fugitives wanted for murder, rape, child sexual abuse and other serious crimes.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

New research at the University of Leicester links shoplifting to your personality

A new study by psychologists at the University of Leicester has identified dimensions of personality seen in persons prone to shoplifting. Three characteristics in his study stood out: Being male; unpleasant and antisocial; ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created May 26, 2010 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Jurors fail to understand rape victims

Rape trial juries need better guidance in the courtroom -- and a better understanding of rape victims -- to help them reach their verdict.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

South African epidemic of schoolboy sexual abuse

By the age of 18 years, two in every five South African schoolboys report being forced to have sex, mostly by female perpetrators. A new study, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal for Eq ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Sex offenders register provides limited protection for children

The UK's Sex Offenders Register is failing to protect vulnerable children, according to a psychologist at the University of Liverpool.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 11, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Female sex offenders often have mental problems

Women who commit sexual offences are just as likely to have mental problems or drug addictions as other violent female criminals. This according to the largest study ever conducted of women convicted of sexual offences in ...

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created May 14, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1


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