NCJ Number
186742
Journal
Crime Prevention and Community Safety: An International Journal Volume: 2 Issue: 4 Dated: 2000 Pages: 7-18
Date Published
2000
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This paper examines current police policy and practice in the United Kingdom in assessing and managing the risks that pedophiles pose to children, with emphasis on how the Sex Offenders Act 1997 and the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 are adapted and applied in different contexts to control the behavior of pedophiles.
Abstract
The analysis used findings of a study of a child protection unit to argue that the pure and scientific forms of risk assessment and management found in policy statements are hybridized through police practice, under the influence of factors such as police culture and the hunches of individual police officers. The analysis identified three hybridized models of risk. These are the forensic risk model, the witness model, and the police-rationale-for-intervention risk model. The analysis concluded that these models aid understanding of how the police sustain and justify their working practices as they try to detect, investigate, and regulate pedophiles in diverse settings. Reference notes (Author abstract modified)