In England and Wales, legislation pertaining to hate crime recognizes hostility based on racial identity, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, disability or transgender identity. Discussions abound as whether this should also recognize gender misogyny. Taking a socio-legal analysis, the chapter examines crime, gender-based victimization misogyny alongside impact of victim identity constru...

Serial rapists have the propensity to cause harm to a significant number of victims, meaning that they are of concern to the police as well as to treatment providers. Despite the serious nature of their offending, there are surprisingly few studies that provide information regarding their characteristics, the types of victim they target, or the nature of the sexual offenses they commit, and tho...

Debates on positionality and partisanship in the research process are long-standing, complex often highly contentious. Engaging with, contributing to, both these key debates, this paper introduces concept of victim-as-researcher. This draws from author’s experiences undertaking Trinidad Tobago with a group offenders who had committed similar offences to that which researcher was herself victim....

This article examines some of the complexities and tensions which lie at intersection popular official constructions technology-assisted sexual violence (TA-SV). It argues that many core contextual understandings victimhood harm underpin cultural legal framing offline forms are not only reproduced but augmented in virtual settings. Drawing on debates from critical victimology, TA-SV amplifies t...

Human trafficking is one of the transnational crimes that a threat to global security which type crime coupled with illicit drug trafficking, maritime piracy, arms smuggling, money laundering, terrorism, international banking and cybercrimes. The forms in persons are divided based on purpose delivery, victim, form exploitation. Because massiveness this crime, United Nations formulated protocol ...

When Louisa May Alcott penned A Long Fatal Love Chase the first stalking novel ever written in 1866, perhaps her imagination was piqued by the thought that the study of stalking would become a scientific endeavour filled with the passion of pursuit 150 years later. It has become just that. Since the behaviour of stalking was criminalized in California in 1990, a brief interlude of 15 years has ...

The law enforcement framework will in general save essential standards as far satisfying equity, exclusively because of reasons legitimate sureness. Victims a crime, the National Legal System, position is not profitable. Because victim, (Criminal) Judicial only an accessory, main actor or just witness. type research used by author compiling this normative legal library research. It should be em...

We report a case study, where we have established the identity from a challenging biological sample of a deceased tigress by parentage analysis. A wildlife crime was committed in one of the zoological parks in India in the year 2000, where one young tigress was killed for its claws. This was of media interest for several days and remained an unsolved case for four years. A framed claw and decom...

The computer crime explosion in World Wide Web has increased in both commercial and personal areas. Study of poor users; provide valuable information in their system to their individual needs or for the efficient organization. Among the several attacking approaches like virus, worm, Trojan horse etc. to extract confidential data from particular victim system, this paper uses malware analysis of...

The relationship between situational factors and the modus operandi of 103 adolescents involved in sexual offenses against children (12 year old or less) is analyzed. Situational factors taken into account in this study are the location of the crime, the offender-victim relationship and the presence of deviant sexual fantasies involving the victim prior to the offense. Modus operandi strategies...