TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Suspect survivors: police investigation practices in sexual assault cases in Ontario, Canada
JO  - Women and criminal justice
A1  - Quinlan, Andrea
SP  - 301
EP  - 318
VL  - 26
IS  - 4
N2  - Despite several decades of institutional reforms in sexual assault policing, sexual assault police investigators continue to dismiss a disproportionate number of sexual assault reports as unfounded. This article examines the policing practices behind these trends by outlining the techniques that police use to assess the credibility and truthfulness of survivors' reports of sexual assault. Drawing on 17 semistructured interviews with sexual assault investigators working in urban policing organizations in Ontario, Canada, this article reveals how investigative techniques in sexual assault cases often rest on normative assumptions about who real survivors are and how they behave. Through this analysis, this article illustrates how survivors of sexual assault can become suspect in sexual assault investigations.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0897-4454
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08974454.2015.1124823
ID  - ref1
ER  -