How victims of sexual violence are treated by the police can either lead them to withdraw from the process of prosecution, or affirm their dignity, agency and sense of justice, argue
@jacksojp.bsky.social @katrinhohl.bsky.social and
@benbradford.bsky.social.

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Listen to us discussing crime prevention - including sexual violence and domestic abuse - on BBC radio 4 rethink

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🚔 Rape survivors seek justice, but police investigations can either restore or damage their sense of agency & trust.

❗ A new study reveals the profound long-term effects of policing on victims' well-being.

Full paper here➡️ https://buff.ly/413jxp2

Relational In/Justice Journeys: Revising Procedural Justice Theory Through An Analysis of Rape and Sexual Assault Victims’ Experiences of Police Investigations Abstract. Procedural justice theory has much to say about police-citizen interactions, but the high-stakes, long-duration and quite specific nature of poli

New open access paper with @jacksojp.bsky.social and @benbradford.bsky.social on how rape and sexual assault survivors experiences of the police compel us to rethink procedural justice theory academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

‘We’re coming for you,’ English police chief tells domestic abusers Exclusive: Sarah Crew of Avon and Somerset says early intervention is part of new national approach to rapists

Big news: with Soteria “old hands” Kelly Johnson, Emma Williams, Jo Lovett, Tiggey May and DA experts Nicole Westmarland and Amanda Robinson are applying our Soteria approach to domestic abuse with Avon & Somerset Police www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

the third cohort of the No10 Innovation Fellowship launched last week as part of CDLs speech on public sector reform ... no10innovationfellows.campaign.gov.uk don't TALK about rewiring government DO IT!

I spent yesterday campaigning against cuts to victims’ services. Court backlogs are longer than ever. Cutting victims’ services is not the right way to get the criminal justice system back on its feet. This decision is devastating and must be reversed.

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Today, @rapecrisis.bsky.social CEO @ciarabergman.bsky.social has publicly and directly criticised the total absence of the sexual violence reduction - or any VAWG mission related mention - in the PMs milestones speech & the real term cut in victim services funding. rapecrisis.org.uk/news/our-ceo...

We marked Victim Support’s 50th birthday in Parliament with a brilliant speech from @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social & moving testimony from 2 amazing service users. Wonderful to celebrate with colleagues from VS and beyond with @katrinhohl.bsky.social, ASB Help, the Victims’ Commissioner and more.

Police responses to rape and sexual assault: Op. Soteria survivor survey Online webinar series to mark the 16 Days of Activism re: Violence Against Women and Girls

More (free) tickets released for today’s online seminar on the findings of our latest #OpSoteria police experience survey for survivors of rape and sexual assault. Book a place here:

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A must-read!

I don’t actually know, perhaps register to join online in case that gives you a link to watch a recording after?

Public seminar tomorrow: Reducing sexual violence: an impossible task for policing?

📆Thursday 21 November
⏰ 17:00
🪧 Cambridge Institute of Criminology in-person or online

Register here www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/reduc...

There are some bloody brilliant people on this #CriminalJustice #StarterPack

Lawyers, commentators and NGOs working in/ discussing topics from the police to the courts to prisons (hi 👋) to probation…

Please do share - and let me know if you’d like to be added

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Police are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service, researchers find - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery, according to a new Centre report.

Summary findings from the @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard national survey with @benbradford.bsky.social published today
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Small start pack on researchers, activists, journos, anyone really working on violence against women and girls. Message me to add yourself/others. Let's try to find folk on here! go.bsky.app/4u3Rk6g

Resharing for the new folks :-) go.bsky.app/NCCEjuu

And me thank you :)

As a social media geriatric I’m not sure I can be bothered to get active on the bluesky dancefloor - but I’ve turned up, and no longer on X.