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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Sexual offences"”.
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Production of Personal Records in Sexual Offences Trials
… myths and stereotypes about women, children and sexual assault that inform this reasoning, and will recommend how government must intervene to combat this phenomenon to ensure real protection of women and children in the criminal justice system.
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Protecting Autonomy in Non-consensual Sexual Offences: A Kantian Critique
… particularly in light of the fact that the Sexual Offences Act 2003 adopts a consent-centric model in relation to the protection of sexual autonomy. Therefore, it is vital that the current model provides effective protection in relation to sexual autonomy. This thesis will focus on the …
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Addressing Sexual Offences in South Africa: Moving Past Rhetoric and Empty Gestures
There is a plague of sexual violence in South Africa. As a country dedicated to the rights to life, dignity, bodily integrity, privacy and the right to be free from all forms of violence, it is the government's duty to adequately address the rate of sexual offences in the country. The government …
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Policy and practice of sentencing male child sexual offenders at Wynberg sexual offences court
… prosecutors, and the probation officers at the Sexual Offences Court at Wynberg Magistrates Court regarding the sentencing of male child sexual offenders, as well as the types of sentences passed on sex offenders. A combination of documentary evidence, that is, court files, and qualitative and …
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Correlates of Denial: Exploring the Function of Denial Among Men Who Commit Sexual Offences Against Children
Men who commit sexual offences against children may engage in denial and minimization that relates to an increased risk to reoffend or as an adaptive response in an adversarial environment. To better understand how and when denial may be related to risk, its function must first be understood. The …
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The corroboration requirement in sexual offences : a discriminatory and unconstitutional evidential rule in the Malawian law
The problem with the corroboration requirement in sexual offences is that it is based on an improper foundation. The proffered rationale, that most complainants lie about sexual offence allegations, cannot be verified from empirical data. Regardless of this fact, due to the rule’s existence, the …
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The crime-commission process of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT): offending in plain sight, not just at night
This thesis explores sexual offences that are committed on London trains, which has seen an increase over the past 3 years (BTP, 2018). This research aims to produce a detailed and comprehensive descriptive account of sexual offences on London trains (SOLT), utilising psychological and …
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The Impact of an Educational Workshop upon Attitudes of Staff Supporting Men with Intellectual Disabilities Who Have Committed Sexual Offences
… on the rehabilitation of men who commit sexual offences. However, investigations of automatic attitudes towards men with IDD detained within forensic mental health services with a history of committing sexual offences are limited. The evaluation of non-automatic attitudes continues to …
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Investigating the role of routine drug analyses in survivors of sexual offences admitted to the clinical forensic unit at Victoria Hospital
… is an important component of drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) investigations, as it allows for identification and interpretation of substances involved. Currently, forensic toxicological analyses are not routinely provided to DFSA survivors in South Africa. The aim of this study was to …
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Sexual politics and resistance to law reform: a critique of the South African Law Commission report on women and sexual offences in South Africa
… Commission published a Report entitled Women and Sexual Offences in South Africa. 1 The Report is the result of almost 3 years' research initiated at the request of the Minister of Justice in 1982. During the period 1979-1981 public attention in South Africa was drawn dramatically to the crime of …
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Sexual offenders : differences between those who commit offences against children and those who commit offences against adults
… look into differences between those who commit sexual offences against children and those who commit sexual offences against adults. All available court sentences of sentenced male sexual offenders in Iceland from the year 2015 to 2019, were investigated, a total of 89 cases. Factors that were …
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Sexual offenses on campus: Challenges in the disciplinary system
… for inadequate policies and processes to address sexual violations on campus. Despite progressive policy revisions and advocacy at South African universities over the years, there is no indication of either a reduction in the number of cases or an increase in confidence in institutional responses …
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Government accountability is in our hands: utilising tech-enabled methodologies to give citizens the power to monitor the implementation of the regulation relating to sexual offences courts
Given the high incidence of sexual offences in South Africa, effective implementation of legislation aimed at assisting and alleviating the plight of survivors is paramount.1 In February 2020, the Regulation Relating to Sexual Offences Courts (the Regulation) was promulgated. The Regulation …
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Education and Training of Specialist Sexual Offence Investigators in Victoria, Australia from 2009 to 2011
… specifically designed for investigators of sexual offences has received little attention from academic researchers to date. Previous studies have not described training provided to police investigators of sexual offences in Australia. This thesis developed Turnley’s Framework for the …
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Rethinking the sexual offenses exception to previous consistent statements: An evaluation of sections of 58 and 59 of SORMA.
… in sections 58 and 59 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 32 of 2007 (SORMA) could be reconciled with the aims and objectives of the legislation. It also considered whether these rules improved the position that previously existed under the common law. …
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Evaluating the role of DNA evidence in sexual offence cases in Zambia between 2007 and 2014
Zambia has reported high incidences of sexual abuse against women and children in recent years. Zambian law categorises sexual offences into; rape, defilement, incest and others, with defilement constituting the majority of the cases (>89%). Between 2010 and 2012, only <39% of defilement cases were …
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Sexual violence against women and the criminal justice system's response in Malawi
Sexual violence against women is an endemic problem globally. In Malawi, about 21% of women have experienced sexual violence at some point in their lives. However, there is limited literature investigating how the Criminal Justice System (CJS) responds to these cases. This thesis explores this …
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Sexual offending and sentencing: an investigation of the factors affecting sentencing decisions regarding perpetrators of sexual offences against children. In particular an investigation of the impact and usefulness clinical psychology reports have in judicial decisions about sentencing sexual offenders.
The sentencing of sexual offenders has become a national concern with public outcries about the injustice of the diversity of sentencing. Clinical Psychologists working in Forensic settings are increasingly involved in the treatment of child sexual offenders through consultation and therapeutic …
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Understanding desistance from sexual offending
… the reasons why a group of men convicted of sexual offences against children desisted from further sexual offending. The research employed a qualitative methodology aimed at gaining a phenomenological understanding of participants' perceptions of the desistance process. A total of 32 …
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