Police officer attitudes to the practicalities of the sex offenders’ register, ViSOR and Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Scheme in England and Wales.
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| Title: | Police officer attitudes to the practicalities of the sex offenders’ register, ViSOR and Child Sexual Abuse Disclosure Scheme in England and Wales. |
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| Authors: | McCartan, Kieran F. (AUTHOR), Hoggett, James (AUTHOR), O'Sullivan, Jack (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Journal of Sexual Aggression. Mar2018, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p37-50. 14p. 1 Chart. |
| Subjects: | Attitude (Psychology), Child sexual abuse, Interviewing, Research methodology, Police psychology, Sex offenders, Surveys, Access to information |
| Geographic Terms: | Wales, England |
| Abstract: | This paper examines police officer understandings of and attitudes to the sex offenders’ register, Violent and Sex Offenders’ Register (ViSOR) and Child Sexual Offender Disclosure Scheme (CSODS) in England and Wales – an under-researched area in the management of sexual offenders in the UK. This research is an adaptation of an American study utilising a mixed-methods approach, combining an online questionnaire survey (N = 227) with a series of semi-structured interviews (N = 27). The study found that police officers, irrespective of role, were generally supportive of the register, ViSOR and CSODS in principle, but they thought that logistics, practicalities, infrastructure, multi-agency collaboration and public understandings had problematic impacts on the scheme in practice. The participants believed that greater investment was needed in terms of time and resource to make the register, ViSOR and CSODS easier to use and access and thus fit for purpose. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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