Sexual Crime - Victims and Survivors

This book offers an original contribution drawing together literature, research, practitioner and service user perspectives around the victimology of sexual crime and offending. Texts about sexual crime focus on the perpetration of sexual crime. This is important as, if we know how, why and in what situations  people commit abuse, it will help us prevent further suffering. However, it is important that the voices of people who have experienced sexual abuse are heard and understood, as there is much we can learn from them -  not simply about their experiences but improving our knowledge of victimisation also informs how we prevent sexual crime.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Lost, Gaslit, Belittled, Tormented: LGBT+ Experiences of Domestic and Sexual Abuse.- Chapter 2: Bringing survivor involvement into the mainstream.- Chapter 3: Sexual abuse, safeguarding and prevention in sport.- Chapter 4: Male Rape: Prevalence, consequences, and myths.- Chapter 5: Surviving Sexual Abuse cloaked in Spiritual Abuse.-Chapter 6: Preventing & Responding To Campus Sexual Abuse.- Chapter 7: The Voice of Dual Status.- Chapter 8: Circles of Support and Accountability: Restorative Outcomes for the Survivor Volunteer.- Chapter 9: 'How could you be so stupid?': Understanding the experience of partners of people who have been convicted of a sexual offence.- Chapter 10: Achieving a More Informed Understanding of Sexual Abuse through working with Perpetrators, as well as Survivors.

About the author

Professor Belinda Winder is the Research Director of the Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement at Nottingham Trent University. She is a co-founder of the Safer Living Foundation charity and has won numerous awards for her work to prevent sexual crime. 

Kerensa Hocken is a registered forensic psychologist at HMPPS Whatton, UK. She has oversight for the assessment and treatment of people in prison for sexual offending in the Midlands region. 

Dr. Rebecca Lievesley is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on the prevention of sexual abuse, with key strands related to work with non-offending populations with self-identified paedophilia, and the evaluation of the use of medication to manage problematic sexual arousal for individuals convicted of a sexual offence. 

Dr. Craig Harper is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. His research interests lie in the psychological processes that underpin decision-making in relation to controversial social and political topics, such as how people form and express attitudes towards people with sexual convictions and atypical sexual interests and behaviours. 

Helen Swaby is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychological Therapies at Nottingham Trent University. She is a qualified integrative psychotherapist and has a background in forensic psychology research. 

¿Phil Banyard is an Emeritus Professor at Nottingham Trent University. He was honoured with the British Psychological Society's Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology Education. 

Product details

Assisted by	Phil Banyard (Editor), Nicholas Blagden (Editor), Craig Harper (Editor), Kerensa Hocken (Editor), Rebecca Lievesley (Editor), Rebecca Lievesley et al (Editor), Helen Swaby (Editor), Belinda Winder (Editor)
Publisher	Springer, Berlin
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	01.12.2023
EAN	9783031466250
ISBN	978-3-0-3146625-0
No. of pages	269
Dimensions	148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
Weight	440 g
Illustrations	XXI, 269 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Series	Sexual Crime
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology

Product details

• Assisted by: Phil Banyard (Editor), Nicholas Blagden (Editor), Craig Harper (Editor), Kerensa Hocken (Editor), Rebecca Lievesley (Editor), Rebecca Lievesley et al (Editor), Helen Swaby (Editor), Belinda Winder (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9783031466250
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3146625-0
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 440 g
• Illustrations: XXI, 269 p. 5 illus., 4 illus. in color.
• Series: Sexual Crime
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology