Web resource:	http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10439463.2016.1154964
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Policing technology-facilitated sexual violence against adult victims : police and service sector perspectives
Authors:	Henry, Nicola Powell, Anastasia
Keywords:	Police;Victims / survivors;Service provision;Policing;Sexual violence;Technology
Year:	2016
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Citation:	[ahead-of-print]
Notes:	To date, the majority of attention to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) in both policy and practice has been on child sexual exploitation and abuse. Far less attention has been paid to digital sexualised violence against adult members of the population. The aim of this paper is to examine police responses to these serious and emerging harms, which are identified as including the following: (1) online sexual harassment; (2) gender and sexuality-based harassment; (3) cyberstalking; (4) image-based sexual exploitation (including 'revenge pornography'); and (5) the use of communications technologies to coerce a victim into an unwanted sexual act. While these are variously criminal offences, unlawful civil behaviours or not subject to criminal or civil sanctions or remedies, it is claimed in this paper that they exist on a continuum of violence and yet the 'real' harms of TFSV are frequently minimised in practice.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16206
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