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Philip M. Stinson, John Liederbach, Steven L. Brewer, Brooke E. Mathna (Bowling Green State University)
- Bowling Green, OH
- stinspm@bgsu.edu
Police sexual misconduct is often considered a hidden crime that routinely goes unreported. The current study provides an empirical data on cases of sex-related police crime at law enforcement agencies across the United States. The study identifies and describes incidents where sworn law enforcement officers were arrested for one or more sex-related crimes through analysis of published newspaper articles and court records. Findings indicate that police sexual misconduct includes serious forms of sex-related crime and that victims of sex-related police crime are typically younger than 18 years of age.