@article{ref1,
title=""Most [false reports] involve teens": officer attitudes toward teenage sexual assault complainants-a qualitative analysis",
journal="Violence against women",
year="2019",
author="O'Neal, Eryn Nicole and Hayes, Brittany E.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="1077801219828537-1077801219828537",
abstract="Scholars, advocates, and victims have repeatedly criticized the police treatment of sexual assault (SA) complainants. Apathetic attitudes and hostile behavior on the part of the police have likely resulted from socialization into a culture that condones the use of force and violence and blames SA victims for their victimization. Using data from in-depth semistructured interviews with 52 Los Angeles Police Department sex crimes detectives, we examine officer attitudes toward teenage complainants of SA. Notably, almost three fourths of the respondents ( n = 38; 73%) mentioned that teenagers lie about SA. Practical implications, theoretical advancements, and directions for future research are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1077-8012",
doi="10.1177/1077801219828537",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219828537"
}