Qualitative Research in Criminology (1999) by Fiona Brookman Lesley Noaks Emma Wincup

Author:Fiona Brookman, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup [Fiona Brookman, Lesley Noaks, Emma Wincup]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351141420
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

The extent of the problem remains largely hidden, as only a minority of women report the offences to the police (McNeill, 1982). This is true of other violent crime against women. For example, Dobash and Dobash (1992) found that only 2 per cent out of nearly 35,000 violent attacks in their study were reported to the police. Offenders can therefore continue virtually unchallenged by the criminal justice system. This reluctance to report offences is partly explained by the fact that exposing has often not been taken seriously by the police and criminal justice system as a whole. In addition, it has commonly been seen as a legitimate topic for humour. This has also been the case to a certain extent with wife abuse and rape. Actual incidents of exposing are rarely portrayed in popular culture and thus myths about the nature of the offence are perpetuated. The examples of incidents reported below illustrate how a reappraisal of the offence using victims as informants is imperative.

Those who have traditionally presented themselves as having expertise on the subject and who have used offenders as their key informants appear to be bemused by the phenomenon of exposing:

It is difficult to understand why men rape, plunder and murder, yet these crimes however abhorrent, seem to be more readily explicable than the illegal act of indecent exposure. Many men have fleeting fantasies of forcible sexual relations, robbery and homicide, but thoughts of indecent exposure do not readily spring to mind … James Bond would not sit in his car waiting to expose himself to a group of school-girls. Much has been written about the origins of exhibitionism, but still the puzzle remains (italics added)

(MacDonald, 1981).

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