Dr Dominic Willmott (Editor-in-Chief) - Loughborough University, UK
Whilst there is a growing awareness of global prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV), recorded (and unrecorded) crime figures for related offences continue to rise. At the same time, data indicates that for many of the most serious forms of gendered violence, rates of attrition are also on the rise. Best estimates suggest that around 5 out of 6 victims of sexual violence will never formally report their abuse to the authorities and of those that do, only a small number successfully navigate the criminal justice process to arrive at a ‘successful outcome’. For many a successful outcome may be a conviction at trial – though for most this will not be achieved. As researchers from across the disciplines of psychology, criminology, and law continue to work together to examine the true scale of the problem, the consequences for all involved, as well as how best to detect, intervene, and treat perpetrators of such violence, I have drawn together a series of the ‘latest and greatest’ research published in the Journal of Criminal Psychology (JCP) that deal with the problem that is GBV.
Please make the most of free open access to the following eight articles published in JCP that seek to help us better understanding the problem of gender-based violence and do consider submitting your own GBV research to the journal in the future!
The following articles are free to access on Emerald Insight from 24th July 2023 to 24th September 2023.
1. Gender based violence against women: the crisis behind being a restaurant waitress.
• Yasegnal, A.S. (2023)
2. Our love was a two-person game. At least until one of us died, and the other became a murderer: sexual homicide perpetrated by intimate partners.
• Stefanska, E., Bloomfield, S. and Carter, A. (2021)
3. COVID-19 and domestic violence: impact on mental health.
• Ali, P., Rogers, M. and Heward-Belle, S. (2021).
4. Patterns of overkill in sexual homicides.
• Chopin, J. and Beauregard, E. (2021).
5. How accurate and useful are published UK prevalence rates of intimate partner violence (IPV)? Rapid review and methodological commentary.
• Ali, P., Allmark, P., Booth, A., Seedat, F., Woods, H.B. and McGarry, J. (2021).
6. How the construction of women in discourse explains society’s challenge in accepting that females commit sexual offences against children.
• de Motte, C. and Mutale, G. (2019).
7. Revenge pornography: The influence of perpetrator-victim sex, observer sex and observer sexting experience on perceptions of seriousness and responsibility.
• Scott, A.J. and Gavin, J. (2018).
8. The dark figure of sexual offending: new evidence from federal sex offenders.
• Drury, A., Heinrichs, T., Elbert, M., Tahja, K., DeLisi, M. and Caropreso, D. (2017).