Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 2016, Advance online publication, 17 October 2016 (Open access)

The paper looks at the different attrition trajectories of rape cases involving acquaintance rape, rape in the context of domestic violence by intimate (ex)partners and in the context of historical child sexual abuse. Rape in the contexts of domestic violence or historical child sexual abuse have not received much separate attention in previous studies, tending to be included in categories involving alleged offender known to victim or excluded altogether as involving under-16s. The article explores and compares these separate types of cases separately in order to increase our understanding of attrition. (Authors' abstract). Record #5296